Video Error importing into DVD SP

I am trying to get a project burned to DVD. This is the first time I've use DVD studio Pro. I had the Menu created and everything looked good. When I went to render it, it said my bit-rate was too high... so I re-compressed my source video at a lower bit-rate and imported it into DVD SP to replace the original Asset. It seemed to work, but now all I can see is the last 5 min. of the video... the first 25 min. of it is just a black screen.
I opened the m2v file in quicktime, and it looked fine... so the problem is not with the compressed video, it's something to do with how DVD SP is importing it
Any ideas of what could be wrong?

did you remove the video from the track and deleted the asset from the browser?

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Madagascar wrote:
So is not the video actually compressed twice? Once in Compressor and once in DVD SP?
And also, what video formats are actually OK to import into DVD SP? (QT, AVI, FCP movie, etc)
Does DVD SP take them all, or does it only have to be QT?
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