Need Introductory Tutorials for Vegas Pro v22 and DVD Architect 7.0

Al_Korzonas wrote on 10/29/2025, 7:27 PM

I'm wrestling with Vegas Pro v22. I've created some videos, but I'm confused as to which Format and Template to use for rendering. Initially, I used MAGIX AVC/AAC MP4 and Blu-ray 1920x1080-24p, 25 Mbps video stream, but later learned (from the good people here in the Forum), that the .avc file contains no audio. I was told that I needed to render the audio separately and then reassemble them in DVD Architect. I'm now in DVD Architect v7.0. I watched a tutorial on youtube on how to create a Blu-ray with DVD Architect. When it came to inserting media, the guy simply selected a .m2t file. No separate video and audio files. When I preview my Blu-ray, however, as expected, the video has no audio.

Where do I add the audio? How do I tell DVD-A "use this video with this audio?"

Can you please point me to a basic tutorial for Vegas Pro 22 and one for DVD Architect 7.0? I looked at the DVD Architect tutorial on this website and it didn't help me get the answers I need - the guy in the tutorial simply selected a file called Final DVD.mpg, which I presume is both audio and video.

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Al.

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EricLNZ wrote on 10/29/2025, 8:11 PM

@Al_Korzonas Tutorial - start here https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/tutorials/basic-training-for-dvd-architect--106103/

How do I tell DVD-A "use this video with this audio?

In the panel on the left double click on the title to make it active. Then on the right in Media Properties go to Track Media where you can set/change the audio file to be used.

Dexcon wrote on 10/29/2025, 8:53 PM

Can you please point me to a basic tutorial for Vegas Pro 22 ...

The 'Learn' selection in Vegas Pro 22's Hub has a lot of short tutorials each looking at a different aspect/feature of Vegas Pro.

Also, VEGAS Creative Software has a YouTube channel which has a wealth of video tutorials under the 'Video' tab on the channel's homepage: https://www.youtube.com/@VEGASCreativeSoftware/featured

Re DVD Architect, the user manual (called "Contents & Index") is available from DVDA's Help menu and the manual may assist with getting to grips with DVDA.

andyrpsmith wrote on 10/30/2025, 6:27 AM

Done many BluRay discs with DVD-A. Make sure the video and audio are exactly in the right format and in the same folder for DVD-A to process. If they are then the video will not be recompressed during the process. DVD-A will tell you if it needs to recompress the video and you can decide whether you wish to re-render the video to better comply with the format.

Note: The Blu-ray specification defines a maximum data transfer rate of 54 Mbit/s, a maximum AV bitrate of 48 Mbit/s (for both audio and video data), and a maximum video bit rate of 40 Mbit/s.

In Vegas I always used the Sony AVC templates.

Do not burn at the maximum rate of your burner, choose around half to maximise the chance of a successful burn.

Al_Korzonas wrote on 10/30/2025, 12:35 PM

The strangest thing happened: I rendered a .ac3 audio file from the Pre-Ceremony video and attached it to the Pre-Ceremony media in DVD-A just as ErikLNZ said to. I then rendered a .ac3 audio file from the Ceremony video and attached it to the Ceremony media in DVD-A. The Pre-Ceremony audio was perfect when I previewed it in DVD-A. However, when I previewed the Ceremony video, I got 2 seconds of some country song and the rest was silent. Re-rendered several times. The rendering took a fraction of a second and produced a 135KB .ac3 file. I then rendered with the Sony Wave64 Format with the 44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Template, because andyrpsmith says he always uses Sony Formats. When I replaced the .ac3 audio with the .w64 video, both videos had proper sound. Where that second of country music came from I have no idea. I set the loop region correctly and even re-set it again for another render.

I think I've learned what I need to get this completed. Thank you all so much for your help.

rraud wrote on 10/30/2025, 1:44 PM

For DVDs I always rendered 48khz /16 bit PCM (.wav) audio.. unless there was no enough space on the DVD, in that case I would encode an AC3 in a legacy version of Vegas that had the AC3 pro encoder. On one project I had rendered 1280x720 videos, but instead of re-rendering the many parts for DVD, I used the free 'DVD Shrink' which worked out well. This was 'a while' ago though.