I am a little unclear to a few things and I am hoping that someone here can/will help me out. I am wanting to know a very basic way of producing a DVD with VV and DVD Arch in 5.1.....I capture and edit using a different program...here is the scenario...

I have 10 different AVI files numbered 01 - 10.....I am wanting to convert these AVI files to a DVD....I drop all the AVI files in the timeline in VV 4 and encode to an MPEG 2 (MainConcept)..I then drop the MPEG into DVD A and set chapter points, set intro movie, create menus, and then prepare and burn the files to DVD. My questions are as follows :

- To achieve the BEST possible quality what format should I be exporting the AVI files from Vegas Video to? MPEG-2 or AVI? Doesn't the video/audio files get recompressed in DVD A?

- If I export the video to another AVI what format can I use where there will be no quality loss?

- Can the DVD A templated inside of VV work for a clip that contains audio/video or one or the other?

- What if I want to create a 5.1 audio stream....does that happen in VV or in DVD A?

- DVD A states that it recompresses my footage but I am not wanting footage to recompress....how can I achieve that?


Thanks!!!!