got the dvd fully authored today. a lot of work went into it. main menu went through vegas for animation. the dvd is loaded with extras and i learned how to manage the size quite well the entire dvd without the main title is down to 1 gb. so this leaves room for the main title to be about 6.9 gb. should be very good video quality.i have gotten very friendly with vegas,dvd architect,and after affects. all that is left to do now is edit the video and create soft subs. i think it may be easier to compose the soft subs then to manually add all the subs in vegas i will have to resync all the subs after the final video renders. again this will lead to the best video quality i can get. my final vol 2 uncut source will be here tomorrow and it is looking like the finished product will be done much earlier then i thought. i had no idea this project would turn out this well i expected a lot less of my first effort but this is going fantastic. not to toot my own horn but damn!