IMovie 10.0.1 audio distorted when exporting

Hello,
I made a movie in the new imovie. When I exported the video to youtube, the audio sounded all weird in youtube, so I deleted it.
I tried exporting the video as a file to quicktime, same problem, audio was distorted. I read online that in iMovie 11, you had to edit the sound of the video in the advanced settings, such as converting the audio to ACC.
I see NO such advanced setting tab or possible way to convert the audio in the new iMovie. How do I fix this? The video sounds completely fine in iMove10 when I play it, but terrible on youtube and in quicktime.
Thanks
PS: How do I normalize the audio as well? Again, no option anymore.

Hey did you ever figure this out?  This forum describes how to export the movie to quicktime with special settings and claims that it resolves the issue but my Imovie ('11, version 9.0.9) won't go through the export...I've tried at least 5 times...it starts and says it's going to take about 30 minutes and works for about 10, often as the clock goes up instead of counting down and then the window disappears and nothing has been exported....  I'd love to resolve this issue...it has only been happening to me since I figured out how to ask the audio to duck other tracks and tweak equalizer settings so it's gotta be something to do with the fact that either the equalizer settings confuse youtube it the .mov format it exports in on default settings (without the ACC tweak which I haven't found a way to do yet)...any new guidance? Trying to get this done yesterday!!
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/bs8mgyVMSEU

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