FWIW, Easy Media Creator 7 and 7.5 can do this. You can put your Videowave projects into their DVD Builder and then render and burn from there. In reality, I've found it doesn't work well, and often doesn't complete a DVD. If I'm using that software I end up rendering in VW, then building the DVD and creating an ISO in DVD Builder, and then burning the ISO using burning software. So, while the functionality is there, it doesn't provide as good of a result as doing each step separately.

But I'm still willing to imagine (and dream) along with you. :-)

Gary

"I don't think you would save much time. The video still has to be rendered to MPEG2 at some point. Even if DVDA could read your timeline directly, it wouldn't be any faster than rendering it before DVDA sees it. "

As it stands now, I have to render the VMS6 file to an AVI. Then I import the AVI to DVDA. In DVDA, I author the DVD and then render it to MPEG2. So the file has to be rendered twice. If I render to MPEG2 in VMS6, then I can only fit a little over an hour on the DVD. This is unacceptable since most of my work is in the 90 to 130 minute range. And as we all know, a 5.2gb Mpeg2 has to be recompressed in DVDA to fit a single DVD (at a loss in quality).

So my initial post stands. Or maybe since both DVDA and VMS6 use the same MPEG2 codec, Sony could allow control over final video size in VMS6. That way hours of rendering could be avoided...

Just a dream I had...