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Can’t read the image you posted, and posting images to sites that try to download apps in the background or open pop-ups isn’t exactly appreciated.
Trying to render wmv to wmv will create a huge hit on your CPU, it may be that your system isn’t up to the task.

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JR answered it more completely, but the proxy workflow is only important if you have a slower machine. If you’ve got a quad that is well-configured, you shouldn’t need to make proxies. There are some advantages to proxies, too…and if you’re doing layering, you’ll definitely want to look at proxies as an option.

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– Vegas does allow you to render back to an m2t file.
– you can EASILY render to files that are equal to the BOB viewed files in VLC, but the problem likely will be that you’re going to complain about file SIZE, next.
– Microsoft acquired most of their imagery via HDCAM, some is film source, but some is also HC 3/5 footage.

Why go to AVI at all? You’re likely shifting color space in addition to other changes to the original.
when you render to m2t and print to tape, you’ll see the same return quality as the ingest quality.

Further, rendering 50i to 30p to 24p is going to look like garbage no matter what. No way, no how can this be done and expect quality.
Maybe some bullet points about your workflow?

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Labels don’t make agreements with YouTube; Publishers do.
Some publishers have made agreements with YouTube, but the YouTube auto-sniffers are also *very* easy to thwart if you know what you’re doing.

In any event, posting credits doesn’t mean squat for keeping things legal. All it does is tell people from whom you stole the content.
Putting “Bloody Sunday by U2” in your credits merely acknowledges that you’re aware of who owns the song, which could make it easier to prove a criminal case. Make no mistake; using copyrighted music is now a criminal as well as civil offense.

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A-Any beta tester or informed person who knows *anything* about Vegas 9 and makes a public comment better hope they have a good attorney. Sony has gone after beta testers for public comments before. Their NDA is pretty severe. As a general rule, anyone commenting on Vegas betas in public is uninformed at best.

B-Without making reference to any aspect of what may or may not be in future versions of Vegas, Vegas does not use an HAL/hardware application layer, and doesn’t have hooks for generalized hardware conversation. Therefore, folding in any sort of hardware-assisted rendering is actually a pretty big deal. Vegas has always been hardware independent, and I don’t see any indicators that would shift that direction.

It’s ironic, in the early days of Vegas 2, everyone loved that Vegas could preview to an external monitor and render as fast as anyone without hardware requirement. Back in those days, you had to have a Targa/FAST/Canopus/Matrox/Pinnacle card just for DV. Unless you used Vegas.
Now a few folks are begging Vegas to become hardware dependent. 😉

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DVD Architect would have prompted you for a break point if it needed you to choose one, but with only two chapters/one marker point, it didn’t have a lot of options.
*most* of our work is dual layer, and DVDA simply rocks at it. In fact, we’re the only vendor our replicator allows to do disc-based DDP files, because most of the other authoring tools are hit/miss when it comes to DDP on DVD. Saves us a fair amount of time and cost.

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change your prefs for the Spacebar.

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Ah hell Matt….I didn’t ask you which Vegas you’re running.
Get Vegas 8C. You need the update.

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you don’t need to master first, and yes, you can allow the software to choose a breakpoint or manually set it. If there isn’t a breakpoint easily found via manual selection, no worries, DVDA will prompt you as to a range that it can be set.
Just burn that sucka! Easier than you think.
The only time you have to master is if this is going to a replicator and you’ll need two DDP discs, a tape master, or an HDD with layer 0/layer 1 DDP files. Your replicator will guide you through that process if necessary.
How much over 4.7GB are you? If it’s close, heck…I’d just lower the bitrate a tad and burn to DVD5.

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just assumed the the audio track was an mp3 file within the .mov file.

it may well be just that. A .mov file is merely a container. Think “Paper bag holding groceries” with a list stapled to the bag of what’s in it. .mov can contain many codecs, and as long as it plays in Quicktime, it’s not required to open in anything else.

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