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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Jun 16, 2016 12:52 PM in response to IVTC

Stuck at 66% and bit rate too high are terms you can search for, we seem often after here.

Getting stuck is usually caused by two things, not waiting long enough for the encode to happen (it takes a while) or the menu graphic is incorrectly positioned or scaled.

Bit rate too high—I have not seen this error since the olden days of DVD Studio Pro 4. It means that the combination of audio bit rate and video peak bit rate exceed the maximum allowed for the MPEG2 specifications. Fixing it required bringing the MEPG2 settings WAY down n the manual setting controls. I do not even know if those settings are accessible in FCPX, never looked.

Jun 16, 2016 2:15 PM in response to IVTC

If you're burning directly to a disk, try outputting as a disk image. To do that, in Share DVD Settings, select Hard Drive for Output Device. Then burn the DVD from the Finder.


Pretty sure that the Too High Bit Rate is a bogus error message. If you get it again, I would try a different brand of media - say, Vertbatim.

FWIW, you cannot adjust the bit rate in FCP, although you can in Compressor.


Post back and let us know how you make out.


Russ

Jun 16, 2016 2:58 PM in response to Russ H

OK so I have tried:

  • A different DVD drive, didn't work
  • Different blank DVD, didn't work
  • Removed audio, worked once, but then did it again and didn't work
  • Shared into a master file which worked but then loaded it back in to share to DVD and did not work either. It said the bitrate was too high again
  • I have a feeling its from the audio. So I converted them to mp3 even though they were already in mp3 and did not work
  • Then I converted them into Aiff and still did not work


I called apple support for 1 hour and half and still nothing. I don't know what to do anymore.

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.


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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.


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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

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