Am I doing right making a DVD?

[rouch]

I´m editing some videos I captured with my DV video camera and I want to know if I´m doing right...

1 - I captured the Video to .avi
2 - Edited the avi files in Vegas Video
3 - Render my work into an avi file (30 min of video takes 35 minute is it
normal)
4 - use DVD Architect 2.0 to make the DVD
5 - Create the files into VIDEO_TS folder with DVD Architect (30 min takes 1
hour 20 min, is it normal)
6 - Burn the VIDEO_TS folder with Nero (because I had some problems with
DVD Architect doing this sometimes)

- Am I doing right?

- Is there any other way to do it faster?

- Are the programs I´m using ok?

I find Vegas Video a good program to do this but I know ther´s others like Premier Pro that I never used but heared that´s ok too...

Thanks

[redwudz]

I don't really see any problems with your process or software. The speed of encoding video is almost entirely dependent on the speed of your CPU, so there is no easy way to make much of a speed improvement except by using a faster CPU.

I assume you are transferring the DV from the camera to the computer hard drive via a FireWire cable and card?

Are you satisfied with the DVD video quality as compared to the original DV quality? That's the most important question. If not, in what step of your process does the quality seem to decrease?

[guns1inger]

You can save yourself some time and a needless render by encoding directly to mpeg 2 at step 3, then using this in DVD Architect. At the moment you output to DV avi, then import this into DVD architect, which then renders to mpeg2. Render directly to mpeg2 from Vegas and you save yourself 40 minutes and a generation loss.