No Audio After HDV Rendering, Can you help?

[High Yield]

About 4 years ago when my son was about to be born I bought a Sony HDR-HC3. Since then I have accumulated 30 mini DV tapes with an hour of HDV recorded on each. Last week I decided to begin pulling the video off the tapes onto my HTPC using Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro. I captured 2 tapes worth of mt2s files and then dragged them all into the video portion of the timeline. I could see the stero audio wave graphs in the timeline as well. Then I clicked Make Movie. I chose to format in mpeg HDV 1440x1080 60i to keep the original frames rate etc since I only plan to watch them on the HTPC using WMP or PowerDVD Ultra 9. It took a little less than an hour and when all was done, I had a great looking movie file with no audio.

I'm new to this. What could I be doing wrong? It seemed so simple.

Thanks for any help you can povide!

[aedipuss]

hard to say. in the render as settings is the audio format listed? did it produce a .mpg or .mpv? screenshots of your vegas render settings might be helpful.

[edit] and welcome to the forum!

[High Yield]

Hi aedipuss, thanks for the response and the welcome.

I selected save as type MainConcept Mpeg-2 and Template is HDV 1080 60i.
The render created a .m2t file AVCHD @ 23GB is size
Description says Audio is set at 384kbps, 48Khz, Layer 2
Video is 29.97fps, 1440x1080.
The only things checked (by default) are "render loop region only" and "save project markers in media file."

Does this help at all? I am running Windows 7 and WMP12 easily recognized the file, but aain, no audio.

Thanks in advance.