Anyone who has had problems with rendering video and audio, and the audio drops out after a certain amount of time (for me it was cosistanly 20 senconds) I found a work around that is kind of a pain but I did have success with it. Once you have an editied project click on the audio track, if you're lucky enough to have SoundForge, you can right click and open in SoundForge, otherwise you can use whatever audio program that will save a 48k file. Set up a template for 48k 16 bit Stereo. Save the file and go back to Movie Studio, use exploer to navigate to the folder where you saved the new version. Line it up in the time line and delete the original audio file. When you render to your hard disk or DVD, everything should work because the program doesn't need to render the audio file. NOTE: I did discover that DVDA Studio will re-render the audio, but there doesn't seem to be any degredation in the final output. If someone knows more about this issue please post it, this is the best I came up with after 3 straight days of working on it.