Hi, i use a canon hv-30 and vegas. Always using the built-in rendering to dvd-format.
Now i shot a movie in HD, and i'm rendering to dvd-format with vegas for the 1st time.
Now the HD-rendering process seems to take "3x longer" than standard renderwork before.
Is this normal?

I'm surprised it isn't taking longer. Yes, this is very normal.

Yep its normal, I rendered a 1hr 30minute video from a AVCHD HG10 camera to DVD format and it took about 3hrs with my Q9550 Quadcore in vegas....Same project rendered to a Blu-ray In Vegas takes about 1hour 45 Minutes ...