Thanks so much for your reply. These are the specs requested by apple for itunes video upload. I was getting the readout for the MPEG from movie inspector in quicktime. I’ve since opened the MPEG in streamclip to get stream info. Here in ‘video tracks’ info the bitrate is a lot higher. So I’m guessing/hoping this is the information I should be looking at?
I’ve sent a test run to apple and waiting to hear back. In the meantime, do you have any other suggestions as to how i might change my ‘strange’ workflow. This is my first attempt so I’m very interested to hear other solutions.