Help importing Quicktime movies to IDVD 5

Hello,
I am trying to make a DVD of music videos and I have found that iDVD 5 will not let me import a Quicktime file. It either will not allow me to drag and drop or the video will have no sound. I've tried importing to iMovie HD first but there is never any sound encoded with the video. Please help.
R

Some file formats are muxed formats... MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 for example. Basically there is only one track... both audio and video are on the one track... hence when you export a muxed file, you only get one track... the video track, no audio.
Once the file is demuxed, you will usually have two separate files, one audio file and one video file. You will need to further convert these to an appropriate format. Some apps will do all this automatically for you and create, for example, a DV file. Quicktime cannot do this.

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