Compressor files TWICE normal size?

We're finishing 2 separate 4-hour DVDs currently. All 30p NTSC Mini-DV source, all edited in FCP 5 (latest rev), latest OS, latest everything. Interestingly there have been several of the sequences that when compressed turn out a little more than twice their expected size. For example an approx. 21 minute clip at 3.7 Mpbs is around 1020 mb instead of about 550.
Anyone seen this? Exporting to a self-contained quicktime and compressing independently, even on another machine, produces the same results. The video material is almost identical to many other sequences that compress just fine. It's very strange.
Thanks,
Mark Holmes
Pranamaya, Inc.
www.pranamaya.com
2.5 G5 Quad, 2.7 G5 Dual   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Sorry! I've figured it out!
I imported layers from a psd file written by a third party application (Artlantis). It seems to be writing the layers in a massively inefficient manner.
But thanks for your responses, I've learnt something about 16bit.
David

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