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Q: Video Bitrate too High? Please help me fix it!

I am having a problem sharing my video to to DVD. Its 12 mins long and when I go to share it to DVD it says video bitrate to high. How can I fix this?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Jun 16, 2016 11:45 AM

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  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Jun 17, 2016 6:34 AM in response to IVTC
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    Jun 17, 2016 6:34 AM in response to IVTC

    Thanks for the link.

     

    I don't see anything out of the ordinary about the Test.mov file. Here is how VideoSpec reports it.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-06-17 at 9.23.44 AM.png

    I imported that into a clean library and exported (Shared > DVD). The output was a disk image. Here is how VideoSpec reported the VOB file. Nothing looks out of the ordinary; the bit rate is what we would expect.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-06-17 at 9.22.33 AM.png

     

    Try this: Create a brand new library. Import your master file and check Optimize media in the Import dialog. Edit into a new project. Export (Share > DVD with Output Device set to Hard Drive). Burn the physical disk in the Finder.

     

    Good luck.

     

    Russ

  • by IVTC,

    IVTC IVTC Jun 17, 2016 8:41 AM in response to Russ H
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    Jun 17, 2016 8:41 AM in response to Russ H

    I tried that but didnt work. It froze at 66% and said application not responding in the disc

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Jun 17, 2016 8:47 AM in response to IVTC
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    Jun 17, 2016 8:47 AM in response to IVTC

    Is Create Disk the application not responding? Were you outputting to Hard Drive to make a Disk Image, or directly to a DVD burner?

  • by IVTC,

    IVTC IVTC Jun 17, 2016 8:50 AM in response to Russ H
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    Jun 17, 2016 8:50 AM in response to Russ H

    create disc is the one not responding but it responds fine when I share other projects. I did not output to hard drive yet to make a disc image. I don't have a DVD burner. However, I did share the master file and loaded it into toast and whadaknow? it worked in there.

  • by fox_m,

    fox_m fox_m Jun 17, 2016 6:25 PM in response to IVTC
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    Jun 17, 2016 6:25 PM in response to IVTC

    I was able to make a DVD without problem of your test movie.

     

    Step 1: Create a new project: SD 720x480 Anamorphic (the original is widescreen) and frame rate 29.97.

     

    Step 2: add media to project storyline

     

    Step 3: Share to DVD

         Open the Settings tab and set Output Device: Hard Drive.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-06-17 at 8.11.05 PM.png

    No problems.

    The output is a *.img file (disk image).

    I think you can just use Disk Utility to burn the disk image to DVD. I think I'd be inclined to recommend Toast as a better disc burner.

     

    If you try to go directly to DVD, then you're "pushing" a lot of data at the disc recorder which is trying to burn the data "in real time". It's not like saving files to a hard drive. DVD is notorious for disc buffer underruns and overruns (they have to receive data at a specific rate.)  In that case, it's more important to keep the data rate between 5 and 8MB/sec (which is the maximum data rate the DVD standard allows.) Burning a DVD like a data disk (image copy) is a lot easier for software and burners to handle, it's more reliable.

  • by IVTC,

    IVTC IVTC Jun 18, 2016 9:10 AM in response to fox_m
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    Jun 18, 2016 9:10 AM in response to fox_m

    I tried your approach but does disk utility give me options to create a menu?

     

    I am really confused as to why it is doing that for all my projects now. It keeps disc burner not responding.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-06-18 at 11.08.53 AM.png

  • by fox_m,

    fox_m fox_m Jun 18, 2016 1:57 PM in response to IVTC
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    Jun 18, 2016 1:57 PM in response to IVTC

    Disk Utility does not write or create video DVDs, it copies the raw data from an image to a writable DVD. There is no capacity for it to do menus etc.  FCPX creates the menus when you export (share) the project (or attempt to burn directly to DVD media.)

     

    The settings I used saved your project to HD as a "disc image" containing the DVD formatting required. You can double click on the resulting .img file to mount the DVD "disc" in the Finder and play the "DVD" (image) with DVD Player (should be in the Applications folder) to test it before committing it to a disc.

     

    What you need to do is a simple "data copy" of the image to a DVD disc. The most compatible DVD discs are DVD-R. The most reliable software is probably Toast Titanium by Roxio, but not a necessary requirement.

  • by IVTC,

    IVTC IVTC Jun 21, 2016 7:23 AM in response to fox_m
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    Jun 21, 2016 7:23 AM in response to fox_m
    Ok got it. I think something is wrong with my macbook so I might have to take it in to get looked at. :( Thank you guys for your help!
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