IMovie exporting to camera

I am trying to export a movie back to my camera, the video exports fine but the audio does not follow. However if I playback the camera through the Imovie the audio is there. I assume there is some encoding that only Imovie can playback, how can I change these settings to have both audio and video play on my camera.

Unfortunately, the deafening silence you hear suggests no one has an easy answer, Larry.
Assuming the iMovie project is set to play its audio, both the audio and video should export to the camera without a problem.
On the other hand, If the audio is turned off in the checkbox at the right end of the Timeline, it won't be exported. But if your audio plays in iMovie that's probably not the problem.
However if I playback the camera through the Imovie the audio is there.
Are you saying that if you play the EXPORTED video back from the camera through iMovie the audio is there? If so, everything on the camera is fine.
I'd check the basics. Make sure the audio isn't muted in whatever method you use to test playback from the camera.
Perhaps the iMovie Preferences > Playback > "Play DV project video through to DV camera" is turned ON? When ON, that mutes iMovie's audio when playing the project. iMovie assumes the camera is connected to a TV providing the audio.
Welcome to the forum!
Karl

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Third, you have gotten some pretty hard to follow and conflicting advice here.
To say the least! And you seem to be giving conflicting advice, too, saying I should put my entire four-hour project into iMovie using iDVD to save it, then saying iDVD won't burn more than 90 minutes on one disk anyway! (At least, that's what I think you said.) Also, I've been told that iMovie craps out right about 90 minutes anyway and nobody could possibly do a four-hour project on it, at least, as one project. And I'm a bit hazy as to how to split something into three or four parts and then reassemble it as one, if that's even possible. Luckily, I don't even want to "go there."
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