Import H.264 in DVD SP

I just exported a movie in FCP as a H.246 file.
When I import this in DVD SP, only the Audio will get imported not the video.
How can I solve this?

As I said, you cannot use h.264 in a SD DVD for DVD SP.
DVD SP is concerned with the LENGTH of the video in minutes, not the size of the movie.
h.264 is compressed, and DVD SP will encode on the build and compress again.
So there is no benefit to use h.264 encode source video in DVD SP.
Use the uncompressed original video files.

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I have made hundreds of different DVDs with DVDStudioPro and am very familiar with it. Not to get off on a tangent but my beloved Apple has decided to betray me by not supporting Blu-ray (the ONLY way to output HD for us independents) so I studied up on Encore and have been using it to format my latest project to HD. The interface works pretty nice and even has some superiority to DVDSP but you have to have the patience of JOB to see your results. 5 Day (Remember. That's 24 Hour Days) Rendering is my tops so far. (OK. Full Disclosure... the documentary is 3 hours and 15 minutes long BUT DVDStudioPro took the same Quicktime files and crunched them down to mpeg2 for the DVD in about a day) Anyway about 6 days ago I had a 3 day render session that crapped out on me as it was finally recording to disc. For some reason it didn't like the BD-RE disc I had in the machine and just bagged the whole process. When I put in a new disc it just started rendering All Over Again. After that debacle I gave up on that method and now am rendering to BDMV folders which I then burn to disc using Toast. (While I am writing this my fingers are crossed that it will make it to the end - it's been another 3 days...)
I provide the details above to show why I am more than dismayed that I cannot figure any way to import h.264 files INTO Encore from another renderer. Either Compressor or Encoder render much faster than Encore. So I have tried render my project to a variety of output types from both Apple's Compressor and Adobe's Encoder with no joy any way I try.
(as a side note I am also dismayed that when I made a change to a MENU, Encore decided to encode The Whole Project Again rather than just the menu part...)
One of my latest file testing adventures was based on a theory that the problem has to do with DVCPROHD recording to 1280 x 1080 anamorphic rather than 1440 x 1080 (the "expected" frame size for 1080i). I fooled with that a half day but could not get either renderer to generate any test material from my FCP output that Encore would burn without re-rendering. By that I mean I cajoled and tricked Compressor and Encoder to output 1920 x 1080 files; 1440 x 1080 files and 1280 x 1080 files (all h.264) to see if Encore would recognize any of them without re-rendering them. No Luck.
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Lately I am very inclined to think the problem has something to do with this 1280 x 1080 DVCPROHD issue but I can't say for sure. I offer that as a suggestion if anyone else with a similar production stream is having the same problem and maybe it will trip a switch in their mind for a solution.
I like the Encore interface and design possibilities you have by swinging back and forth from PShop and After Effects but using Encore's renderer is like Chinese Water Torture.
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I got your test file into Encore and got Encore to show its Blu-ray transcode status as "Don't Transcode".
Screenshots:
PrCS4 Export settings:
EnCS4 Project Panel:
Since it's hard to make out the En Project panel, I'll attach the same image to another message.
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I am new to this but why in Compressor does it say I can use H.264 for DVD Studio Pro and then DVD studio pro only sees it as a audio file???

I have the same problem with 1080p25 h264 .mov file created with compressor HD DVD settings.
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Process:
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X86 (Native)
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876295 sec
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