Thanks, again, for the all the replies. dhs, I’m not sure I understood a quarter of what you said but I’ll google it to figure it out. Looks/feels like an “A” wrt sound advice.
Anyway, I’m about 7 minutes into my video and it’s coming along great. Need to hit the sack so take care all.
I learned most of it from trial and error. And there are tons of things you can do with Vegas. It has a very powerful audio section and video control is excellent.
It has the fun stuff too like making the video look old (which I don't use). Lots of transitions, etc.
Also, Vegas is only the front end. You'll need the back end DVD mastering software, too. Actually, you can use pretty much any mastering/burner software once the video is in a generic MPEG2 format.
Curious to find out what you get with the demo — do you get the mpeg2 renderer (Main Concept)? You can render to wmv and mov (Windows media and Apple Quicktime) and the various Ipod formats. The new versions will allow you to render HD MPEG2 and H.264 and burn to a blueray disk. Looks nice on an HD TV.
Other features:
1. you can render over the network (across multiple PCs). Rendering takes a lot of PC horsepower and being able to split the work across multiple PCs will reduce the time.
2. you can create animated backgrounds and thumbnails in the DVD.
Sorry... going on a bit.