Studio Pro Crashes whenever I try importing AC3 Audio files

Question

I used the Compressor preset "DVD: Best Quality 90 minutes" on my 8 minute video in order to create a movie to import into Studio Pro. I first selcted "MPEG-2.6Mbps 2 pass" and then "Dolby Digital Professional 2.0." (Shouldn't I only need to select the "MPEG-2.6Mbps 2 pass" to get both video and audio?)
Anyway, I submit both.
The m2v video imports into Studio Pro just fine (it's without audio). When I import the associated ac3 file Studio Pro crashes!
I noticed in one tutorial when you move the "MPEG-2.6Mbps 2 pass" setting to the submit window that two lines appear for submission. One video and one audio. When I do that I only get the video. That's why I thought I might need the Dolby setting. "MPEG-2.6Mbps 2 pass" says "with AIFF audio" but all I get is the que for video.
Using 4.2 Studio Pro
OS X 10.6.6 and installed ProKitUpdate7.0.
Yikes. Help! Ten DVDs due tomorrow!

Answer 1

The usual steps if an app starts acting weird is to trash preferences, repair permissions and to create a new project with the same files. Has DVDSP been stable up to now? If none of that works, try a new encode in Compressor without making any adjustments to the audio settings,
BTW, to set up the DVD job in Compressor you do need to select both audio and video. The tutorial you watched probably selected "All" which brings them both into the job pane.
Since it's such a short movie, you could also try burning a test DVD directly from Compressor. The easiest way is to use the batch template.
If your DVD doesn't need more than a simple menu, bypassing DVDSP might meet your needs. You nave the option of choosing Hard Drive as output device. That creates a disk image from which you can burn multiple physical disks.
Russ