Please Help! No Audio on half of my DVD!

Hello. I created a project in iMovie. I didn't do much, just digitized my clips and imported into iDVD. Once in iDVD I created a menu and a slideshow. For the slideshow, I had it "fit to audio" with no transitions. (This is a DVD of a wedding I did) I had the wedding & reception as 1 chapter. The wedding is an hour long and the reception is apprx. 15-20mins long. When the DVD is burned and I play it in my DVD player... there is audio for all execpt the last 5 mins of the wedding. Then when the reception comes on, there is audio for about 1 min, then it goes away. This has happened on 7+ DVD's I have burned, which now have be come coasters. The audio is on the clips from iMovie. Also, on my latest burn, the audio comes in and out a few times on the slideshow. But the majority of the song is still there. Can anyone help. The people I did this for are real anxious to get this. Thank You! ~Mike

Was your camcorder set to record 16-bit audio, not 12-bit? If recorded as 12-bit, change the setting and share back to your camcorder and record as 16-bit this time. Import into a new iMovie HD project.

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