Kelly, if you take our friend's comment "literally" as being read from the workflow it goes: "Render as . . . " then "Mainconcept MPEG-2 . . .. " and THEN . .template "DVD PAL" or "DVD NTSC" . . sooooo... it could be read as:

"Render as . . " . . . . . "DVD PAL" or "DVD NTSC"

. . and yes, I know a lot of shorthand and guessing by me, but one could concatenate this to the one statement "Render as DVD (PAL/NTSC)" - I'm also looking at the workflow . .

So, if this IS the case the answer is for our friend to really look at the template "Descriptions". Some Templates INCLUDE the AUDIO and others do not.

I'll leave the rest to others .. I'm off to bed . .ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

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:) Sorry for the inconvenience caused, Chienworks, I was looking at
file,
render as,
custom,
at bottom line, "video"
output type,
"DVD" "MPEG-2" "SVCD" etc...
I interpreted these choices like this:
If I'm going make a DVD with DVD Architect, I should chose "DVD"
but If I'm going make a DVD with Nero 7 or Adobe Premiere..etc,
I should chose "MPEG-2" ????
Do I approaching the subject wrong or right?

You need MPEG-2 for DVD - from whatever direction you get to DVD creation.

DVDs need MPEG-2s. Now you can create them in Vegas OR DVDA OR another DVD authoring package. But you need those MPEG2s.

Read the DVD information within the templates. All the Video production will be in MPEG2.

Now, Vegas has attempted to make this more straight forward by calling one of the Templates DVD PAL. It is a title/name. It is what is behind the name you need to be aware of.

Once you have got this under your belt you can start creating your own Templates and so on: "OGUL's Pal DVD" - or whatever. You could name them "Orange" or "Apple" or "Hammer" or "3rd Rock from the Sun" - whatever would assist you to recall it.

Does this help?

Grazie

It's pretty simple actually. All DVD video is MPEG2 but not all MPEG2 files are DVD compliant.

> If I'm going make a DVD with DVD Architect, I should chose "DVD"

NO. If you are going to make a DVD you should select a DVD template regardless of which program you are going to use to burn the DVD. DVD Architect, Nero, Adobe, etc. all need a DVD compliant MPEG2 files to make DVD's and so use one of the DVD templates.

The only time you would select one of the other MPEG2 templates is if you were rendering for the web or a media server or some other device that doesn't require DVD compliant MPEG2 files. Obviously if you were rendering for SVCD you would use one of those templates but there is almost no need to make one of those anymore.

~jr

Thank you all!
JohnnyRoy made all clear!
But one last question:))
Among the templates there is DVD Pal and DVD Architect Pal Video Stream.
Which one to chose? when?

Are you using DVD Architect? If so, use the DVD Architect templates as they tweak the settings to make the files more compatable with DVD Architect. If you're using some other authoring program then the non "DVDA" templates will produce more generic files.

Also keep in mind that the dvd video stream templates do not include audio so you'll also have to render the audio separately, probably as an AC3 file.

Since 2005 I have DVDA 3, 4 and now 4.5 but still can't use!!!
I was producing my DVD's with Nero 7 but last summer I also bought Premiere Elements 3.0 which made me succeed to make a professional looking DVD at first try!
I know that DVDA is more professional than them. I hope to learn someday...