Scott, sorry, I do not have Vegas 4 but Vegas Movie Studio 4 - big difference I've been told and apparently there is no AC3 on any menu. When capturing on Vegas, the audio timeline plays perfectly but after rendering, although DVD arch. shows that there are two files (one mpeg 2 and the other avi and both have the same names) audio will not play.
Do I have to render twice? How do I render the audio - what format, label, listing? I really need to upgrade. This is a watered down version of the real thing (which my son has and has no problem with rendering.)
Also, why do I have to use Nero to burn? DVD arch will not recognize my new Sony burner which Nero does? Ah sweet mystery of life with computers!

Thanks Sony, for confusing everybody even more by giving these guys Vegas 4 and then changing what's included. My Vegas 4, before Sony bought it, has AC3 rendering in the rendering tab, at the top. I can only see how much confusion this is going to cause in a few months. Why wasn't it called Sony Movie Studio 4?

I saw this project myself. What she is talking about here is that Movie Studio is not giving her the option of an AC3 render. Only MPEG 2. When the “make DVD” option is chosen, the assumption was that Movie Studio would automatically make the 2 renders, since there is no method of doing otherwise.
The project plays fine off of the timeline in Vegas. But when DVD Architect opens, it does not play audio, but does list the audio as existing as a wav file. The problem is, when searching the hard drive for the wav file, it can't be found where DVD Architect says it is, or anywhere else for that matter. It also does not show up on the DVD Architect timeline.

Howdy. :) Guess you couldn't get ahold of me a couple days ago (neigher could my mechanic).

Does DVDA show any audio on it's T/L? I think (I haven't downlaoded the demo of Vegas Movie Studio) that you can also render out a WAV file speratly. I actuatly do that all the time for DVD's (I render out the mpeg-2 with the audio, then put it in my authoring program. I normally change the audio [clean it up, add/delete a music track, etc] then re-render the audio as a WAV file or a mpeg-2 audio only file & replace the old audio with the new audio).

When I worked with her laptop up here in NY it didn't seem to have any problems with the audio.
Is she using the DVD-A template or just rendering as a mpeg-2 file with the audio? Could you try rendering a DV-AVI & puttign that on the DVD-A timeline to see if that audio shows up?

Could you e-mail me a screenshot of the DVD-A Timeline? the_happy_friar ~at~ yahoo ~dot~ com

Not to be rude, but you really should be asking this question in the VMS forum, not the Vegas forum. I'm certain this has been discussed in that forum.

Anyway, since you don't have AC3, render the audio from VMS as a windows WAV file - PCM at 48Khz. Again, the audio file needs to have the same name as the video file and be located in the same directory - and DVDA should pull the audio in automatically when you pull in the video.

If you navigate into the movie an DVDAS, you should see the audio on the timeline. If not you can manually include the audio - on the properties for the movie there should be an "audio" entry. Just click the 3 dots and that will bring up an "Open File" dialog - specify the audio file.

As far as your burner goes, this is a pretty common issue with DVDAS and DVDA - Sony can't keep up with all the burners coming out and all the various was to connect them - so you can prepare your project in DVDAS and then use Nero to burn it.