Are bitrates selectable at any number or must they be a variable based on the originasl number, 6,000,000 in my case? Also, does it make any difference if it is reduced in Vegas or in DVDA?

Viggo Butler

Depends. If you're going to make a DVD, and its sizeable, over an hour or several vids over a hour you may be better off rendering as DV AVI. That way once you're done with building your chapters and making menu pages in DVD-A and its a little large you can let it compress to MPEG-2 and you'll avoid having the MPEG-2 compressed twice which is generally a no-no.

You can set the bitrates from the custom tab in Vegas once you bring the render as window up. So too from DVD-A once you do the optomize.

You can pretty much type in any number you want, but to remain compatible with the DVD spec it has to be between something like 2400000 to 9800000.