No audio after using Compressor

Hello folks,
I have NTSC DV video, which I am trying to compress using Compressor. I am using DVD MPEG2 5.0 Mbps 2 pass compression with Dolby Digital audio at 192 Kbps. Everything seems to work fine, compressed video has much smaller size, quality is good... but there is no audio. Any idea what I do wrong?
Thank you for any advise.

Hello.
When using Compressor to encode to DVD, 2 separate files are created, m2v (video) and ac3 (audio). They are not muxed together. You then import both of those files into DVD Studio Pro, and combine them on a video track there.
A really good website that will walk you through the workflows associated with Compressor and DVDSP is DVD StepByStep
What is your target delivery source? DVD, web?

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