"Video Bitrate too high" message - DVD Studio Pro

I have been using the workflow of; video from FCP, through Compressor (best 60 minutes & Dolby Audio) and then on to the build & burn format in DVD Studio Pro and a final burn through Disk Utility for about two years with flawless success.
4 days ago I got the following "failed" message in the build & burn process in DVD SP: "Video Bitrate too high."
I have been trying to solve this problem with these solutions:
I threw away my DVD SP .plist file(s), exported new video from Compressor at a lower bit rate, Followed all the suggestions on the DVD SP troubleshooting basics web page, checked the discussions on this topic and followed some suggestions, uninstalled and reinstalled the whole FCP Studio, deleted files so my hard drive has more space, to no avail... I still get the message.
I have tried everything and can't imagine what else I can do. Would really appreciate if anyone has any suggestions.

Welcome to the boards
Take a look at these couple of things
http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_3.php
http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_7.php
Try deleting the MPEG and PAR files that were made and/or create a newly named M2v after re-encoding, could be something in those were corrupted. If you dropped in Dolby audio and using the preset without having changed it, it should work, but something can be glitchy. Also a chance there is a spike somewhere in the encoding...

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As soon as I hit the burn button a warning hazard sign flashes up saying video bitrate to high. What should I do so that I can produce DVD's.
Thanks
G5

Hi:
What encoding settings or hat preset did you use to get the mpeg2 video? Are you using just the AC3 audio or AIFF too?
Are you using multiple video angles?
NOT RELATED WITH HIGHBITRATE, BUT ADVICED
Before selecting burn, you can (and it's adviced!) make a build&format in your hard drive. After that you can create a Disc Image and use Disk Utility and/or Toast to burn. Read here: Creating Disc Image in DVDSP
PLEASE, complete your system profile info (hardware and OSX and FCS versions).
. . . and wellcome to the forums !
Alberto

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Hello,
As usual, when I try to build my DVD in DVD Studio Pro I get the error 'video bitrate too high'.
I checked it out on the net, and I get what the error message means. I wanna ask you guys what I should do next. Apparently I should reduce the bitrate, by how much? Should I recompress the m2vs I have in Compressor then put them back in Studio Pro, or can Studio Pro reduce the bitrate internally?
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well a maximum bit rate of 8.8 with 1.5 of AIFF file, gives us a 10.3 bitrate, unfortunetly DVD maximum bit rate is 9.8, so here you go, you are well out of spec, use a 224kbs on the AC-3 encode for the audio with a dialogue normalization of -31, and a maximum of 8.5 bitrate on your video compression and you should be a happy man next time!!!!!
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Did you convert your audio to AC-3 (Dolby Digital)?
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Well if you're using PCM audio (.aif) you've got no chance with a bitrate that high. PCM audio takes up 1.536Mbps of your total bandwidth. So at 9 you are way over already!
Even if you use DD AC-3 you pretty much have no chance too cause many encoders will spike over the max for VBR or target with CBR and at the bitrate you are leaving no headroom,
Reduce your bitrate, cause as the message says, it's too high,
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Message was edited by: ErinSayHi

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Figure out the rates for your video and audio here
http://dvd-hq.info/Calculator.html & http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
to try to find what bitrate works for encoding, then encode outside DVD SP. (Make new ones with files with distinct new names. Merely changing the settings insdie of DVD SP will not work except for new projects, this way is quicker.)
Remember to A.Pack your audio also.
Even if the settings worked last time, if you exceeded the rate for DVDs (and encoding can have spikes in it) this problem can still occur. If you were importing movies straight into DVD SP without A.Pack/Dolby, ths increases the chance of problems.
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My camera is a Sony Ex1 and I have a 1 hour and 7 minute video that I have sent through Compressor to DVD Studio Pro, which I have done many times before upgrading to FCP 7, and now when I try to build it, it always tells be that the video bitrate is to high. I have gone though preferences and reduced the bitrate to 3 and max 5 and it still does it. I have also made a Quicktime movie and tried to build and burn it in DVD Studio Pro and that does not work either. I have no problem viewing it in DVD Studio Pro when I simulate it.
I would appreciate any help you guy could give me. This is just a hobby, but I have been doing it for over 5 years and have never had this problem.

Dexil Rold wrote:
When I got DVD Pro 7, I installed 10.6 on a new 1 Tb hard drive and then installed DVD Pro 7, so it was installed on a completely new drive. When I ran my movie through Compressor, I did it two times. One with the DVD 90 Best, one with a suggestion by the new book on Studio Pro 4 (average 4.5 Mbps, Max 7.5 Mbps. I also made a Quicktime Movie. I did have to try several times to get it through Compressor, after hours FCP would quit before it was finished, but I did get it to work
It could be spiking with the 7.5, doubtful, but could be even with AC3 audio.
Try this to see if it works - Export the Final Cut movie as self contained movie (is that what the QuickTime Movie was, the entire timeline self contained?) Sorry I am a bit unclear as to whether you got that to go through Compressor or was it the timeline from FCP, which quit, but successfully went through Compressor. Perhaps it is related to Snow Leopard.
When you look at the build files on your hard drive, is it crashing out at the same point?
Take a look here http://dvdstepbystep.com/vts.php at the image at the bottom, does the build get to the same spot and/or does it throw the error in the log at the same part? Anything else in the log?
Anyway, there would be a few things to try.
I would think the easiest is to
1.) Export a small section of the movie from Final Cut as a self contained movie.
2.) Bring that movie into Compressor and run Compressor on it (including AC3 files) then bring that into DVD SP to see if it builds.
If it does, it would seem to be that there may be a spike causing the error (are you using multiple video streams, subtitles or anything else or is is a straight one video/one audio on the track.)
If that works it would seem to be a spike issue, especially if the error is thrown at the some spot in the building process.
If it gets past that, export the entire timeline and run it through Compressor and see if that works, dial down the top bitrate a bit for the video.
You could also do some other things (make another partition for an install of Leopard, not Snow Leopard, try a new user, etc.) but the above may be the easiest to start with.
When you say it takes hours to send from Final Cut, is that sending from Final Cut to Compressor or Final Cut to a self contained movie? Of course alot of this depends on your Final Cut timeline, codecs, color corrections, renders and the rest, but on a Octo it should not be painfully long for a 1 hour few minutes movie. I ave Final Cut 7 on a laptop and it does a pretty good job speedwise on some HDV timelines, which are a pain to send out. You may want to check things like where you set your scratch disks, when you are putting the media etc. (More as an aside FYI)

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some things don't make sense here. please clarify.
Standard DV is roughly 5 minutes per gig, so that means that you have just about 2 hours of video, ok, got that. Now it's the two track thing that gets me.
Are you saying you have 4 hours of footage, the same thing from two cameras, and you're trying to set up a multi-angle DVD?
If it's just that you used two video tracks to edit, then NO, it is not your problem. It's still only 2 hours, the video will be mixed down to one track upon export from FCP to quicktime.
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-open sequence in fcp
-file>export>quicktime movie... (you can uncheck "make movie self-contained" if you want it to export faster and you plan on keeping your original capture footage around)
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-Finally, open up your DVDSP project, drag the .m2v, .aif, and .ac3 into DVDSP and use the .m2v for the video track and either the .aif or .ac3 as the audio (as mentioned above)
-the good news is, your DVD media is already rendered, so when you go to build your DVD it will go much, much faster!
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I find it best to build the VIDEO_TS folder on a hard drive and then use a program like toast to create a DVD (using toasts from VIDEO_TS option). This method also allows you to go back into DVDSP, make tweaks, and reuse your VIDEO_TS folder, not having to rebuild the whole thing each time.
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If you have a newer mac and a dual layer drive, you may want to cough up a few bucks and get a dual layer DVD-R, then you have over 8 gigs of space to work with, perfect for HQ 2 hour footage.

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