Shane's stock answers no help on my dropped frames trouble -- desperate!

Hi all you chicklets,
I've been trying to take a series of short videos (totalling 15 mins) that I made using FCP 4.5 for the web and nudging them so that they can go on DVDs for a special non-profit event where people might want to have a copy of the videos to watch on their tvs. I am using DVDSP for this per comments by the apple peeps for a previous question I posted.
Having trouble with dropped audio that is making me nuts. S-O-S!
Here are as many gritty details as I can bear to write down.
Equipment:
A) G4 867 MHz PowerPC, 1.5 GB RAM, 10.3.9 OS
B) I work by using G-Tech Firewire (400) hard drive (500GB) as my system disk.
C) I also have some junk on another Firewire HD (Iomega - 160GB) that I think is used by the G-Tech. Please don't scream! I intend to learn all about media manager to clean up my crap after this event has passed on by.
I'm new to this -- and if elected president, I promise to have a better workflow station system management process ad lib ad nauseum next time, and will not clog up the apple intertubes with my pleas for help on obvious beginner's mistakes.
Actions:
1) I put the videos all into the same sequence. Previously each 'chapter' had its own tab and sequence. Please note that I have burned dvds of these using idvd with no audio drops, no nuthin.
2) I added chapter and compression markers (sparingly) since I do have some effects/transitions that I would like to have come out smooth.
3) I was able to hear and see everything perfectly while playing the timeline with the videos all on the same one. Nothing dropped.
4) My settings in FCP timeline are thus:
a) Safe RT
b) Playback Video Quality: High
c) PLay base layer only (check)
d) Record to tape: Full quality
5) I exported this movie like this:
Export > Quicktime Movie
--current settings
--audio + video
--all markers
--make movie self-contained
6) And then I dropped this movie into Compressor
I used these presets:
MPEG 2 60 Min High Quality Encode
my audio = DVD PCM Audio = 48KHz 16 bit stereo
(don't have dolby as an option here I think)
After compression the video part looks as good as it's ever going to look (I think it's pretty good) but the audio has breaks and even omissions of music in the Background that I can hear perfectly when listening to the thing in FCP.
I went to Shane's stock answers. I even trashed the FCP preferences -- and I don't even know what that means.
I need to get this thing done soon -- can someone, anyone, please please give me a hand? What am I missing other than sleep?
Thanks so much for my long and winding road!
HeirBetty

HeirBetty wrote:
3) I was able to hear and see everything perfectly while playing the timeline with the videos all on the same one. Nothing dropped.
I'm a bit unclear as I didn't see the other thread. To clarify: you want to make separate sequences and output them as separate movie files instead of having them all on the same timeline? And if you do that, you get dropped frames?
You have a very slow machine and running your OS on an external disk and then editing off the same disk is making it even slower. The more sequences, bins, clips, etc, in a project, the more system resources it will take and system resources are a rare commodity on your machine, I am afraid.
So keep things as lean as you can. Consider creating separate projects for, say, every 3 movies or put everything into one timeline and then use the In and Out points to select which parts you want to export each time.

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