Bit rate too high error

hi,
i am trying to burn my project which has 2 videos of 10 minutes each.
one of those videos has 19 sub-menus, which are very simple pages with nothing more than a button that says play (leading to the 2nd video). I also have 19 subtitle streams. all the video was encoded in compressor and the audio is ac3.
for bit rate setting i am using 6 and a max at 7. still getting error. not sure what the next step is here. the total i see as the project in terms of space looks like only 800 megs so i am not sure why i am getting this error. please help. thanks.

Try trashing your preference and getting rid of any PAR file associated with the disc and rebuild. Delete your old asset from the import window and trash it on your computer as well. If that doesn't work I would build the project from scratch and try again. Im looking for the data rates for a subtitle but I cant find it right now. But 6 mb/s CBr should be good.

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I just upgraded to FCP 7x and I am trying to burn a disc on DV Studio Pro. It runs through the rendering fine, then when it is ready to burn it shuts down and says the video bit rate to high. So I went to the manual and the manual suggested changing the codec to Apple Pro 422, something like that. I did and am now still getting the same error. This has never happened before and I've been using FCP for 6 years. Anybody know what to do or has had a similar problem?

mvp productions wrote:
It runs through the rendering fine
Let's get some terminology correct. I believe you mean it "compresses" fine. How are you compressing the file. In Compressor?
the manual suggested changing the codec to Apple Pro 422
I think you may have misread that. All SD DVD's are made from m2v files for picture and ac3 or aif files for audio. Pro Res is an editing codec.
This is my quick and easy how to make a first play SD DVD.
Just send the sequence to Compressor (Right click the sequence and send or export to Compressor). From Compressor choose the settings for DVD Best Quality 90 minutes (If your project length is longer choose a longer time). Submit the files. This will create 2 files. An m2v for picture and ac3 for audio.
Bring both of those files into DVDSP. Add the files to the empty track (a green box). Right click the track and select first play. Build the DVD then Burn.

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At least I think they are. My media was all encoded through compressor and when the build gets to:
- Preparing Subtitles...
- Muxing VTS011.VOB
the next message is red...
- Video Bitrate Too High
- Build cancelled
- Formatting finished.
me... weeping in the corner
N

Take a look at page 70 of the PDF for bit rates on alternate angle tracks to see if that was the issue.
Also using a CBR intead of VBR has helped in some multi angle issues.
Take a look at this thread where someone had chapter marker causing issues:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2356388&#2356388

Bit Rate too high Error - have specific details about files - please help

Hello-
Just finished a project and went to burn the first DVD. It starts muxing the first mpeg2 video file and comes up with this error. Below are the specs for all the files on the DVD. Please take a look and let me know where I went wrong. Thanks a lot.
Tom J
All video files are:
MPEG-2 60 Min High Quality Encodes out of compressor
All Audio is:
AIFF Stereo 16bit 44.1KHZ
All video and audio lengths are the same, some video tracks have multiple audio tracks
Title---------Video Length--------# of Audio Tracks--------
Main Menu----1:34:27--------------1-----------
Sub Menu 1---30:00----------------1----------
Sub Menu 2---30:00----------------1-----------
Video 1------4:32:00--------------1-----------
Video 2------3:09:00--------------3----------
Video 3------6:25:08--------------3----------
Using my superdrive to burn on a Imation DVD-R 8x
Disc Meter in DVDSP reads 1.3 GB

Hey David-
The total running time of all video (including video
for motion menus) is 1001 seconds (the book told me
to break it down into secon ds).
As far as the bit rate, I checked it and am exporting
currently to a max of 5 with an average of 4.5 (for
the video).
The audio is AIFF all the way, I think encoding in
Dolby is something a newer version fo compressor
does. I have FCP 4.5 with DVDSP 3.
I did export the audio as PCM AIFF, didn't shrin kthe
size in fact enlarged it slightly.
Do you figure if I have a bit rate max of 5 on video
with 3 1.5 bit rate audio tracks, I'll be all right?
Tom J
With your version of FCP & DVDSP, you'll need to encode the audio into Dolby Digital 2.0 with A.Pack, which is a separate program on your hard drive. With Final Cut Studio, Apple did away with A.Pack and merged its functionality into Compressor.

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When Building my DVD SP project, the compiler throws the above error when muxing one of the tracks (three previous tracks are compiled OK). Encode Mode is "One pass VBR", motion estimation is "good" and Encoding mode is "encode on build". I have changed the max. bitrate from 7 to the lowest available (about 5) and the average bit rate from 4 to much lower. No solution.
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PAL, 16:9, standard definition (ie., not HD). The total size of the project reported by DVD SP is only 3.1 GB.
I have in the past used Compressor. If that is the answer, what preset should I use?
What can I do please? Thanks.
Please note: I use DVD SP 3.0 and have Compressor 1.2

SOLVED! I put it through Compressor (which I had not used for seveal years) and the problem has gone (as a recent answer to another poster advised — I should have done a search!).

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This has me worried, becuase this 3 minute part is only 1/3 of the whole piece that I am trying to run as a test to check contrast, color balance etc.
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I don't know if I need to do this in FCP or in DVDSP.
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http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_3.php
Then
http://dvdstepbystep.com/fasttrackover.php to A.Pack Dolby the audio (when you scroll to the bottom there is a link to a movie showing all the steps, about 1 minute or so in you will see Compressor, you can download and scroll to that pint to bypass the Final Cut section)
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I am in the process of creating a PAL version of an existing NTSC DVD
I created PAL-compliant video files from iMovie.
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I kept the same menus (Menu1 has a PAL video as a background)
When I try to build, I get an Muxer Bit Rate too High error message right after the Auto play segment is processed (see log below)
The Autoplay segment is a slideshow made up of jpeg pictures with a "cube" transition. There are two audio streams and two subtitles streams (one in English, the other in French).
I never had that problem when burning the NTSC version. What do I need to change?
Here is the log of the build:
Building Project Tibétains bilingue PAL
01/03/07 08:45:52
Build Folder /Volumes/MAXTOR HD/PAL videos
Starting DVD Build 5TIBTAINS_BIL...
Compiler Initializing...
Precompiling Project 5TIBTAINS_BIL
Parsing Assets...
Encoding Assets...
Compiling VMG Information...
Created 13 PGCs in VTSM1
Created 13 PGCs in VTSM1
Created 5 PGCs in VTSM2
Created 5 PGCs in VTSM2
Created 5 PGCs in VTSM3
Created 5 PGCs in VTSM3
Created 9 PGCs in VMG.
4 Menu(s) will be created...
Compiling Menu PGCs...
Compiling Menu#1 (Menu 1)...
Rendering Menu:Menu 1,Language:1...
Rendering Menu:Menu 1,Language:2...
Compiling Menu#2 (Menu 2)...
Rendering Menu:Menu 2,Language:1...
Rendering Menu:Menu 2,Language:2...
Compiling Menu#3 (Menu 2a)...
Rendering Menu:Menu 2a,Language:1...
Rendering Menu:Menu 2a,Language:2...
Compiling Menu#4 (Menu 1a)...
Rendering Menu:Menu 1a,Language:1...
Rendering Menu:Menu 1a,Language:2...
Writing VIDEO_TS.VOB
Compiling Menu PGCs...
Writing VTS020.VOB
Compiling Menu PGCs...
Writing VTS030.VOB
3 VTSs and 9 Titles will be created...
Compiling VTS#1 (5 Tibetains21)...
Preparing Subtitles...
Muxing VTS011.VOB
Done.
Compiling VTS#2 (auto Play)...
Writing VTS020.VOB
Generating Transition: auto Play, Clip 1...
Generating Transition: auto Play, Clip 2...
Generating Transition: auto Play, Clip 3...
Generating Transition: auto Play, Clip 4...
Generating Transition: auto Play, Clip 5...
Generating Transition: auto Play, Clip 6...
Generating Transition: auto Play, Clip 7...
Generating Transition: auto Play, Clip 8...
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While waiting for an answer, I tried a few things.
I solved the problem by re-doing the slideshow for the Autoplay segment.
I believe that the issue was the fact that I had converted the slideshow into a track in the NTSC version.
That track had to be removed and re-created in the PAL version (just like any other video asset).
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3.) If in fact that leaving just the PCM audio in the track by itself (not the 5.1) you may want to delete preferences and the MPEG/PAR files that DVD SP creates and also repair permissions. Then take the PCM and try rexporting from Quicktime to AIF and use a different name for the file such as "SecondTry.aif" so it is clear it is the other file.
BTW which version of DVD SP are you running and which version of QT?

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It's probably telling you the truth. If the only thing on your track is a single video assett and a single audio assett, try the 120 min setting or manually reduce the avg & max bitrate in the inspector.
~D

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Hi all,
I have seen quite a few posts about pgc errors, but most of them deal with slideshows and not video; and I can't find anything with the REF=KApgc error.
I'm just putting all of my home movies onto an authored DVD, not rocket science. I'm using the 'Film Submenu' preset with only 5 main movies, things like Easter, Birthday, etc. My transition for each button is a slate (for lack of a better word) that says exactly what it is and when it happened, before each movie plays.
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-Jeff
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Encoding error- Muxing bit rate too high

hi,
i am trying to burn my project which has 2 videos of 10 minutes each.
one of those videos has 19 subtitled tracks and simple sub-menus. All the video was encoded in compressor and i tried both a VBR and CBR. I am only using audio that is AC3. For bit rate setting i am using 6 and a max at 7. The muxing craps out about 33% though. When i open the last file in MPEG Clipstream, i can see it dumps out at about 8 minutes but there is nothing on any of the subtitle streams that appears out of place. Total project is under 1 gig in terms of space so i am not sure why i having problems. i also posted this on the dvdsp forum but so far, no one has been able to help solve the issue. please help. thanks.

Eric suggested:
"Try trashing your preference and getting rid of any PAR file associated with the disc and rebuild. Delete your old asset from the import window and trash it on your computer as well. If that doesn't work I would build the project from scratch and try again. Im looking for the data rates for a subtitle but I cant find it right now. But 6 mb/s CBr should be good."
What happened when you tried this?

Bit rate too high DVDSP, build stops.

DVD Studio Pro used to be DVD Maestro from Discreet, but I was thinking since Apple bought it long ago, it would have a forum. I searched for DVD and DVDSP and only came up with this forum.
If anybody in here uses DVDSP and if you know the solution I would appreciate help with this.
Upon building this, I did lower the bit rate to a lower size after getting the error message.
As of now I have the BR between 4.2 and 5.2 as the max br.
I'm concerned if I lower it anymore it will start looking like a pixelated mess. Does anybody know how low you can take the rate and still have a good looking project?
The project was taped in HDV. However I encoded it using compressor so I don't think it's an HD file anymore that DVDSP can't read. In the settings you'll see "SD".
I'm using DVD Studio Pro 4.
The settings I used for compressor were:
Video:
Name: MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass
Description: Fits up to 90 minutes of video with Dolby Digital audio at 192 Kbps or 60 minutes with AIFF audio on a DVD-5
File Extension: m2v
Estimated size: 2.79 GB/hour of source
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
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Video Encoder
          Format: M2V
          Width and Height: Automatic
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          Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV (16:9)
          Crop: None
          Padding: None
          Frame rate: (100% of source)
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                    Resize Filter: Linear Filter
                    Deinterlace Filter: Fast (Line Averaging)
                    Adaptive Details: On
                    Antialias: 0
                    Detail Level: 0
                    Field Output: Same as Source
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          2 Pass VBR enabled
                    Maximum bit rate: 7.7 (Mbps)
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          Best motion estimation
          Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
          DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled
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Name: AIFF 48:16
Description: 48kHz, 16-bit AIFF stereo audio
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Starting DVD Build BIG_DADDY_DVD...
Compiler Initializing...
Precompiling Project BIG_DADDY_DVD
Compiling VMG Information...
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Created 8 PGCs in VMG.
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Compiling Menu#1 (Menu 1)...
Rendering Menu:Menu 1,Language:1...
Generating Transition: VTSM #01, VOB #1...
Writing VIDEO_TS.VOB
1 VTSs and 1 Titles will be created...
Compiling VTS#1 (Big Daddy compress video)...
Muxing VTS_01_1.VOB
Video Bitrate Too High
Build cancelled
Building was not successful. See log.
I tried the same project in IDVD and it worked like a charm the first time

There is still a DVDSP Forum - it's under Final Cut Studio at https://discussions.apple.com/community/professional_applications/final_cut_stud io
Select "refine this list" in the blue button to nake it easier to find DVDSP related issues.

Bit rate too high

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I searched forums which suggested that I should delete a dvdstudiopro.plist file, but I can't find this file! I am running OS Lion 10.7.4 and the latest version of DVD Studio Pro.
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