This concerns Vegas as well as DVD Architect, so I'm posting at both forums, but please answer at the other place if you're inclined. Basically I want to string multiple MPEG 2s from multiple Vegas projects into a single file without recompression so that I can author a through-play disc in DVD Architect.
You can combine multiple MPEG2 files without recompression in either TMPGEnc or Womble's MPEGVCR. Womble's product is ridiculously expensive for what it is, but it works very well. TMPGEnc is free for the basic product and reasonable for the full product.
Neither DVD Architect nor Vegas can combine MPEG files into one without recompression. I've been lobbying ever since I purchased DVD-A for it to include the capability to combine multiple MPEG files into one without recompression in order to create menus that are compatible with the DVD specs that will let your entire DVD play without returning to the main menu (which it will if you create it from multiple MPEG files).
"Basically I want to string multiple MPEG 2s from multiple Vegas projects into a single file without recompression so that I can author a through-play disc in DVD Architect."
If everything is set the same, you can join multiple mpg2 files in TMPGEnc. However, normally these individual vids would be imported that way into most any authoring prog. - Commercial DVD movies are a series of smaller mpg2 files, the movie itself, not the features.
ps: sorry to repeat your post John - beat me by 20 some seconds ;?p