Tape one comes in at just over 1hr 3mins and took 1hr 9mins to render within Vegas. So I'm pleased with that.

I clicked 'Render As' and selected 'MainConcept MPEG-2' so I hope this was what you both meant.

I looked throught the various options and could not find anything relating to AC3 other than the 'Render As' Save as Type dropdown (but I choose MPEG-2 as above)

Is there an AC3 option somewhere else?

The reason I am asking is that, although I'm happy with the 1hr 9mins ... DVDA seems sluggish again.

I dropped the MPEG (1.85GB) into DVDA and click prepare and burn (the AC3 option here was already selected) and its now on 2% done and with approx 2hrs 36 mins left - BUT it says its rendering?

Should it be rendering a MPEG-2 again? if so then I suppose 2hrs 36mins isn't to bad (if thats all it will be)

I just hope that after 2hrs 36mins it doesn't decide to do something else which takes another couple of hours (i.e. my experiences from my first attempt)

Hope the above makes sense.

Thanks.