I am trying to prepare a project for testing using wmv files and it is telling me video BITRATE is too low and it won't recompress therefore it won't let me prepare?!? How can I get past this?
I have also gone into the optimize setting and the default bit rate box is set to YES already, but it does tell me for some reason that the media is not compliant...am I out of luck with wmv?

Look under help in DVDA for a list of compatible files. While I'm sure you must have a reason, using wmv files in DVDA doesn't sound too promising.

You might have to re-render the files into mpeg 2 using the DVDA architect format, which is ideal for DVDA.

yes, that is what I had to do. Unfortunately because the render time for 4 separate parts are each 3 hours. Woe is me.