Cinema Craft Encoder (CCE): Need experienced user help!

[ChachiFace]

Okay, I just bought CCE-Basic and downloaded it. I have encoded several small clips at different settings to see which one I like best. The problem is my authoring program will not mux/burn any of the files because it says the max bitrate has exceeded! When I view the .m2v (.mpa) file in Bitrate Viewer it shows the NOMINAL BITRATE to be 9800000! In the CEE settings I had the nom bitrate set to 6000 and the max always set to 7000. Am I doing something wrong? Please advise...

Thanks,

chachiface

[vhelp]

did you make sure, when you were setting up the bitrate, that after tabing
to the next bitrate setting box, that one of them did not magically change
to it's default state. Sometimes you have to start at highest first, then
middle and then final last. But, you have to watch that one of them do
not change on you while you are looking for the (OK) button :P

I've had this happen to me in v2.50 and it used to drive me crazy, till I
realized what was happening. Maybe this happens too, in cce basic.

Other than that, would post all your major cce settings so someone w/ the
cce basic and further assist you in your cce endeavors :P

Good luck, thus far.
-vhelp

[adam]

You have your max bitrate set to 6000kbits, not your nominal bitrate. If you use the dvd compliant option in CCE it sets the flag for nominal bitrate to 9.8mbits, and most dvd authoring programs will complain unless your audio bitrate is very low. Simply uncheck the dvd compliant option, there's really never any reason to use that.

[ChachiFace]

Adam, thanks for the reply. I unchecked the "DVD Compliant" setting and that did the trick. That option makes absolutely no sense what so ever, it seems to write to the header that the bitrate is 9.8Mbps constant even though the avg/max are no where near that. So MOST authoring software rejects the file. Hopefully the rest of the software is better.

Thanks again,

chachiface

[adam]

I think you are only supposed to use that option when outputting to an mpeg program stream, ie: with audio included. When you do this I believe it sets the nominal bitrate at the maximum allowed possible with the set audio bitrate, so any dvd authoring program should still accept it. The dvd compliant option also automatically resizes your resolution to NTSC or PAL compliant res according to the source's framerate. Its basically a newbie button. I agree, its useless.