DVD-A Compression problem/bug?

[William_Robinette]

I need a hand here.

I am trying to fit 5.5 hours onto a single layer DVD right now. (I know, I know, I have no choice). I have rendered everything out of Vegas as a DVD-A complaint mpeg with AC3 audio and I am sitting at 95% filled once everything is set in DVD-A. So I go to burn and compile but DVD-A comes up with the error for every video file (there are 6 of them) "the Video track of xxx has a bit rate too low to recompress"

The problem is, I don't need it to recompress. All it should have to do is compile the darn thing. Anyone know what the hang-up could be here? It won't let me past this screen.

I have made DVDs this long before and even longer (7hr 20min) so I know it's possible...

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

File a bug report at Sony. Not sure we can do anything about it here.

[David Jimerson]

What's the bitrate of the video you rendered?

I doubt it's a bug; it may be literally true with that much footage.

[William_Robinette]

The video bitrate hangs around 1.2mbps coming out of Vegas (thank goodness it's just PP presentations).

I have it working now. I re rendered everything out of Vegas and replaced the old renders with the new ones in DVD-A and it works for some reason. I have no idea why, but I'm just burning the disc and saying good riddance.

Thanks guys.

[David Jimerson]

That does seem pretty low -- might be right on the cusp of having enough info to re-compress.

[William_Robinette]

I understand the problem DVD-A said it had, but in fact it should have been a non issue. I didn't want/need/require DVD-A to recompress anything that I fed it video-wise, but it was trying to anyway, which is what my problem was. I don't know, maybe one of the files got buggered up somehow and it freaked out.

[David Jimerson]

It could be that your audio -- though AC-3 -- is taking up enough space so that the video has to be recompressed.