John, I think your issues is that you have m2v files that DVDA is down-converting to MPEG2 when you create the DVD version of your product. It would be best to re-render the project as an MPEG-2 file (Main Concept preset) and set up the DVD using that file instead of the M2V. Once you have done that and have the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders created for the DVD you can burn away.

Mike

Hello JohnJ:

As you may know, this is dependent on your system specs and your workflow. Can you post a little more about that.

Here is an example based on my workflow. I make a 30-35 minute DVD each week. The DVD contains about 10-11 segments each running 2-3 minutes.

Vegas Pro 11

Each DVD segment is a .veg file that is rendered from Vegas into a format that is DVD compliant. Each render takes 15-30 minutes depending on the complexity of the .veg file. So doing the math, 15 minutes x 10 segments = 150 minutes just for the DVD compliant renders . . . and this is conversative because some segments take longer.

If I want to make both a DVD and a BD, then I'm running two renders for each segment, i.e., one that is DVD compliant and one that is BD compliant. If you do your entire DVD and BD render at the same time, 4 hours for rendering isn't too bad if you are using my wimpy old laptop!

DVD-A 5.2

After I have rendered my files, it takes about 15 minutes to burn the first DVD. This is fast beause I render from Vegas into a DVD-A format that requires no recompression (rendering). I haven't done a BD format disc in a while and I cannot remember how long that took. In case you don't already know, you can see which files formats are optimized for DVD and BD by searching the the DVD-A 5.2 help fof recompression, avoiding.

You could set-up a batch render to launch everything and then walk away for a while. That would make the wait time easier to bear. Other folks here will probably have some suggestions for you too.

Regards,

Kimberly

Thank you, that was very helpful

Thank you, that was very helpful