IMovie idvd - no sound

I burned my movie via One Step idvd directly from my camcorder. Sounds was present but no audio on the dvd movie.
Help.

Hi Steve:
Read through these completely and see if anything applies to your set-up(both are still valid for iDVD 6):
iDVD 5: Create DVDs from a DV camera with OneStep DVD
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300735
iDVD: OneStep DVD not available for HDV format
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302540
:)Sue

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