FCP export makes a blank AC3

Hi,
I'm exporting a film to go to DVDSP. I'm doing what I've done for the past n years. In the sequence>export using compressor>my presets come up (90 minute high quality MPEG2 and Dolby AC3 2.0). The video goes out fine (the project closes in FCP when encoding is finished - which is odd and annoying), the AC3 file is blank when I import it to DVDSP. I have a workaround of removing the encoding options in Compressor, and dragging new ones in. This works sporadically. This is not an ideal way of working! I hate to say it, but it all started happening after the last software update. I've used Preference Manager to bin everything and rebooted. Nada. Also - weirdly - having trashed prefs, Compressor STILL opens with the MPEG2 and Dolby 2.0 options heading for my target drive. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
David

Sorted.
It was (or rather - must have been) a corrupt element in the film I was working on. I've subsequently finished another short and all went well using the template settings.
While it's not 'solved' as such - I think a problem with the original film is most likely. It came in from a client, so I'm blaming them!
No responses to this, but I think putting this as a possible solution might help some folk.
Check for problems in the source film.
d

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