Audio fails in Compressor 4, OS Lion

I'm trying to burn a DVD using Compressor 4 on OS Lion and Final Cut X and the audio formats (every single one) keeps failing when I try to compress. Audio is fine in Final Cut and on the SDHC card I used for capture, but every format (including ac3 which I need for DVDs) wont complete.
Any ideas what the problem might be? Should I try running the audio through a different program first such as Soundbooth? Thanks and sorry if this is mundane, I did fine with Final Cut Studio...

Not sure what to suggest except that I agree it's a communication problem between the two apps. And judging by the fact that you got one of the libraries to work, I would say the problem is on the FCP end of things.
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Do you still have your events and projects so that perhaps you could hide some and limit the libraries' size?
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