[Don Bloom]

351 MB for a 40 minute AVI doesn’t sound right. Consider that 60 minutes is 13gigs. ALthough DVDAis known for overstaing the file size by a rather large margin the 351MB AVI sounds WAY off. Regardless of what size it is, when you render it in DVDA (it sounds like that’s what you’re doing) you should be OK.
Don

[Don Bloom]

if your new project has not been rendered to MPG which I would assume it hasn’t been then simply go to the clip you want to add to the timeline thru the explorer and add as you would any other clip.
If the project has been rendered to MPG then you might be better off renerding that clip to MPG before bringing it in but remember to render to the bitrate for the whole project based on time/size of the original project.
Don

[Don Bloom]

First the video FX can be undone by simply opening the button on the bottom right of the clip and you can shut the FX off or delete it from the clip.
For non-real time audio FXs when you do the effect it creates a “take”-therefore you can go to that audio clip and right click which brings up a menu and towards the bottom of that menu is the heading labeled “takes”-click on that and the take of that audio clip are brought to view. Click on the one you want and you’re all set.
HTHs
Don

[Don Bloom]

sure no problem.
Use the following Variable bitrates.
High:8,000,000
Average: 4,440,000
Low: 2,000,000

IF you are using AC3 audio.
If you are rendering the audio to PCM then change the AVERAGE bitrate to: 3,065,000 however you would be better off rendering the audio to AC3.

HTHs
Don

[Don Bloom]

Let’s look at the internal burner.
When you say you prepare it in DVDA do you mean you have already encoded to MPEG or is it still in AVI form?
If you have not already done so then render to MPEG in Vegas using the appropriate bitrate for the size video you have OR render the project to AVI in Vegas and bring the AVI into DVDA and FIT TO DISC in DVDA. You can still put in chapters if you wish, customize the menus but DVDA does the work or converting. Once the project is in proper MPREG format THEN you drag the MPEG to the project overview or into the timeline or onto the menu in DVDA and move on from there.
That should take care of retriving media info whatever that means.
Don

[Don Bloom]

IF you named them the same IE, my movie.MPG and my movie.AC3 then when you bring the render into DVDA both will come in together.
Don

[Don Bloom]

it’s where the FX,Generated Media, Transitions tabs are. It might have gotten hidden with the MEDIA,Explorer (etc) tabs – unless you resized it to nothingness it’s got to be there-once you find it you can pull it out of that area and close it so it will only open when you click on a clip and want it to open.

Don

[Don Bloom]

personally I just did one and like always formatted as WAV burned the disc right off the Vegas timeline-never left Vegas for the job. Granted it was only a 2 minute piece but I pulled the audio from the video and simply burned it right there. Finished that and went back to video editing.
MP3 will give you a smaller file size and 99% of computers today will read MP3.
Don

[Don Bloom]

nope-I doubt seriously that you will see (hear) any sync problem. it could be that the audio track is 1 frame or less shorter than the video (maybe during editing and you clipped the tail)
Don

[Don Bloom]

yes it will. Don’t render to mpeg to bring into soundbooth-render audio only to WAV bring into soundbooth, clean and bring it back to vegas to finish edit. No reason to render video for audio work-it’ll just muck it up.
Don