Are you referring to the burned DVD being not as sharp as the original DV footage?
You can try tweaking the MPEG-2 encoder when you render. Enable two-pass on the video tab can help. Also raising your average bitrate from 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 can help, assuming it will still fit on a DVD.
You can also try cleaning up your video a bit - I've had great luck using Dynamic Noise Reduction available for free at http://mikecrash.wz.cz/
Thanks for responding.
I have burned a dvd twice in DVDA but now I'm having a problem with the formats.
I was advised to use an "avi" format when rendering in Vegas 5;
Then open DVDA and burn there.
The problem is that the "avi" format will not allow me to see the files as one file (like a media file); it has two folders, one "video" and the other "audio".
What I'm trying to accomplish is edit, render, burn a DVD; then upload it to MPeg Nation, which is a company that allows video streaming; the file can't be any bigger than 1GB, which the files I have are 10 minutes of live music footage, and 200 plus MB.
What I will try next is to render with mpg2 (for DVD's per my Vegas book), then I'll try to see if that results in one file (media file), which I can then go to DVDA and burn.