Staxrip changes its mind on compression?

[Frogman7]

So when I load up a file the first thing I do is run a compression check on it and this is what I based my compression on. I try to nail the 55% sweet spot. Sometimes however I end up not encoding something and go to reopen the project it tells me the bitrate should be much lower? This also happens when I abort a encode, and it will stay at that level (in other words if I run a compression on it again nothing changes) until I load up the file from scratch again. Why does it do this? Is there a way to fix it?

[Jonaldinho]

If you adjust all the settings in the codec configuration to what you want first, then run the compressability check it will tell you the compression from the settings you've chosen. After the compressability check cirst change the resolution if it has changed. Then change the bitrate until it displays 55%. Then open the codec configuration and match it 55%. Then save the target. Then save the project with the same name as the target. Then if you dedide to reopen the project, (say you didn't want to convert it, you just wanted to set it up) you just open the saved project which has a file extension .rip. which is usually located in the same place as the source file, not the target file. The main thing is check the resolution and save the project after the compressability check.