Audio distortion when sharing iMovie to IDVD

When I burn an iMovie in iDVD the resulting audio on the DVD is distorted. The audio in iMovie is just great. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Bob,
Welcome to iDVD Discussions.
Did you import 16-bit audio from your camcorder?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=165285

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