Ok I am REALLY confused

Dyrelogan wrote on 7/21/2013, 2:48 PM
The first DVD I made using DVDA it came out with audio and video. The second DVDi made there was no audio. I have not changed what I have been doing and haven't changed any settings whatsoever and yet this is really confusing me to no end. I am reading that you have to render video file and audio files separately and people are speaking MIT here all over the web and it confuses me more. I rendered the video and then I rendered the audio and opened DVDA and it says that there is a file missing. When I open both files, the audio file is longer than the video file. What gives? What am I doing wrong? I am using DVDA 5 and movie studio platinum 12 on a windows 7 machine. Any help here would be greatly appreciated because I'm getting so frustrated with this software. Should have paid attention to the reviews before I purchased it.

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videoITguy wrote on 7/21/2013, 4:37 PM
'speaking MIT' - speaking what? where? how?
Dyrelogan wrote on 7/21/2013, 10:44 PM
I'm only meaning that when it comes to certain things, like this, people speak as if they assume everyone is knowledgable about it as well and it ends up confusing the inquirer even more. This software is pretty confusing if you don't know the lingo and I only wish to know what I'm doing wrong. I use something similar to Sony's software elsewhere and and I find it much easier but it's much more expensive than Vegas super duper deluxe platinum diamond 12 edition. I don't understand when people say that I have to render the video first then the audio and then the DVDA will magically put them together when you create a DVD.
videoITguy wrote on 7/21/2013, 11:08 PM
try the help file - I don't understand what you are suggesting as so complicated- it's all there and you just said it yourself. Perhaps you can try to explain in detail what you are attempting to do and then say what goes wrong or that you assume goes wrong.
MSmart wrote on 7/21/2013, 11:32 PM
+1 explain in detail.

In Movie Studio HD, are you using the Make Movie > Burn DVD option or are you using Project > Render As?

If Render As, you should be using the Main Concept MPEG-2 > DVD Architect video tempates for the video, then for audio, Dolby Digital AC-3 Studio > Stereo DVD templates. When doing so, the file names should be the same. In DVD Architect Studio, once you add the video file the audio file should automatically be added.

If Make Movie, those steps are done for you automatically. The benefit of Render As is that you can control the bit rate, if needed, by clicking on the Customize Template button.
Arthur.S wrote on 7/22/2013, 3:36 PM
The reason for creating separate Video/audio files in Vegas, and then importing them into DVDA, is that you have MUCH more options when you render them. But you do not HAVE to do this. Import a video with audio attached, and DVDA will simply render it to what it needs when you 'make DVD'. If you've run into problems with different length video/audio, that's what I'd do.

By the way, although the files are different lengths, are they in sync?
Chienworks wrote on 8/6/2013, 3:13 PM
How are you ending up with files of different lengths?

1) Render the video in Vegas to a video file.
2) Render the audio in Vegas to an audio file.

Assuming you do both steps from the same project, unless you're doing something really strangely weird, they should be exactly the same length.