Bit rate too high error?

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Bit rate too high error?

I tried to do a basic burn- no menus- dv footage- 6 minutes and I got a "bit rate too high" error.
I have done this type of burn many times- I never mess with the settings- what causes this?

I went in and lowered the bit rate from 6 to 4- and then it worked. But it was only 6 minutes of DV.
I've done projects much longer without getting this error- curious- why would it happen this time?

Macpro 3.0, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 11, 2008 8:59 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 11, 2008 10:34 AM in response to Randolph Duke

6 was your average, but the highest rate may be a lot more. If your sound was left uncompressed, that would be about another 1.5 mbps. I'm not sure at what point the too high bit rate error shows, but it may be at 8 mbps, or something like that, which you could have reached.

Try either compressing the audio, or you could take the video data rate to perhaps 5.5 and hope that the peak isn't above 6.5.

The duration of the video doesn't affect the situation at all, other than if it was a very long video you would bound to be at a lower data rate.

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Answer 2

APPLE27

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Apr 11, 2008 11:21 AM in response to Randolph Duke

Yeah I think DVDSP has issues when the total bitrate is around 9. Even though compressor lets you go up to bitrates much higher, they don't work in DVDSP. Don't forget to adjust your max bitrate if you're using vbr. Use compressor to make your audio .ac3 and you can keep your video bitrate higher.

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