Compressor 4.1.2 BluRay Encoded File is too big - Help!

I just encode a 4 hours of HD footage using compressor's Bluray output (H.264 Video & AC3 Audio). It took near 10 hours of seemingly wasted time. I am working with 25g blurry discs and the H.264 File Size is 27.71 gigs. So now I need to re-encode.
How can I control the file size in this newest version of compressor? In the past compressor always knew to keep the h-264 file size under 25gigs. Any ideas?
Thank you!

If you visit the FCP X discussions forum you will several threads about Blu Ray issues. There are clearly some problems that affect some systems in unexpected ways
chadridv wrote:
OK, so after many many hours! The file size still came in too big.
That's why I suggested twice that you do a short, 15 minute test…so you wouldn't have to waste al that time to find out it wasn't encoding the projected size.
Sure. Drop both he average and max bit rate. But do the 15 minute test first to confirm it will fiit. I don't know why it's overshooting but it is and there's some guess work involved,
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