When I render to mpg using any setting OTHER THAN an HDV option, the resulting mpg is except it has NO AUDIO (played on Windows Media Player); audio can be heard if I play it on the VLC player. If I render using the HDV (720 or 1080) then the audio plays in the mpg just fine. If I choose a basic DVD setting, for example, the audio will not play on the resulting rendered mpg.
Thinking this was an issue with PD7, I then tried Sony Vegas 9 Platinum and had the same dropped audio on rendered mpg files. In Sony Vegas, only when I output to a WMV will the rendered file's audio play.
I have made doubly sure that audio in PD7 is not muted prior to any rendering so it's not a user error. SInce I don't have a BluRay burner yet I can't test the BD output. For now, I just want to output some edited MPGs for creating DVDs that the family can play.
EQUIPMENT:
Canon HF100 (great performer)
Custom-built Intel DualCore PC, XP, 4gb RAM, Nvidia 7600 GT.
I've rendered miniDV tape to mpg for the past year with this rig before adding the HF100.