so i installed d/w last night (early this morning actually), upgraded the firmware on my sony drive and authored and burned my first dvd-a. discwelder is unbelievably simple to use. it's drag and drop like easy cd creator. click record and it goes. start to finish, it authored and burned the dvd-a in 35 minutes. once i get higher burn rate media, it will be under 15-20 mins or les i think.
compare that to how i used to do them before i got my dvd-a player. i would do something similar to scott (even though i was using 16/48 files since i didn't have high-res files at the time--i only did a handful as part of archiving some of my DATs, there wasn't any real benefit to this). but i had to encode the audio into the right mpeg+wav format and that process would take several hours for a full set which is what i would normally lay down. the process sucked, the software was all pretty ratty shit...the whole process was pretty ghetto...this is much nicer, imo...i usually created a jpg with show info on it as a video "placeholder."
-damon