vbr and bitrate

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Usually I use CBR in Cinema Craft Encoder SP v2.5 to encode with bitrate set
to 7552k. The result mpeg2 works very well in DVD Workshop 2. But when I
use 1-pass VBR with bitrate average 6000k, min 0k, max 7552k, the mpeg2
always has nominal bitrate of 9800k and max around 8040k, which DVDWorkshop
doesn't like. I have tried 2-pass VBR but result the same. How can I control
the bitrate in VBR?

 

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Don't set the low and high so close together. Scenes with little action
accept lower bitrates, scenes with more action need higher bitrates. You
could probably get better results using a low of 4 or 5 and a high of 7 or 8
with Multi-pass VBR. Single pass VBR is essentially worthless. You would get
better results than single pass VBR by using single pass CBR with a setting
of 6. Along with the audio that would create a stream of around 7.5