Vegas Video 3.0 question

[Prize Racer]

Hi all,

Yesterday I rendered an 80 minute film on my Vegas 3.0 and wound up with a 3.6GB .mpg file. In general, this is fine. However - when I last rendered this film in July - it was 82 minutes long (I've since edited it down) and it came out at ~2.7GB. So, any idea how trimming two minutes could cause the project to inflate? For the record, I did not tweak or otherwise adjust the settings; the render setting was still set at DVD - the same as back in July. I DID remove a snippet of an .mp3 and replaced it with another, but that's so out of the realm of possible causes it barely seems worth mentioning.

Any thoughts? Suggestions?

Thanks.

[proxyx99]

Only the bitrate settings affect file size so... it must have been your settings. Encoder is still the same. Play both in PowerDVD with screen info enabled and watch bitrate (right click on the screen, check Show Information). Likely to be different.

[proxyx99]

Sorry, one more thing. Check audio encoding compresstion scheme (LCPM or DD etc. that will make a huge difference as well - compressed or not, and how - what format).