And it only took 11 months...
Shot in HDV, with 4-channel surround. Edited with Vegas7 on the Gearshifted version.
Took me a day to root out the "2 black frames" glitches, about 8 in all, and several audio dropout glitches.
Drove me nuts when I Gearshifted back into HDV and discovered that the audio on the front 2 channels (part of the m2t/DV files) shifted about 1 frame, which you can hear in surround. Pain in the neck.
Total video on the DVD is 2:25; video bitrate was 3.75Mb/sec avg, 1 min, 9 max. I encoded it with CinemaCraft, 4 passes, and was shocked by the good results given the bitrate. No spatial filtering on the video at all. I authored with DVDlabPro, which I really like. I need to play with DVD Architect one of these days.
Vegas never crashed, and the only PITA issues are the 1-frame audio shift and the 2-black-frame bug.