Audio quality in DVD pro

I just brought a file from FCP through Compressor into DVD Studio Pro. I have a music track for Menu 1 as well at the audio which came out of Compressor from my original file. The music for Menu 1 sounds fine, but the music of the movie when played back in Simulator is weak and muted. It sounded much better in FCP; I have to raise the volume substantially just to hear it in DVD SP.
Thoughts?
Thanks
Shelley

This will almost certainly be down to the way you encoded the audio. Go back into Compressor and check the settings...
When you go into Compressor the encoding profile for the audio (AC3) will probably have a 'dialog normalization' setting of -27db by default. This will attenuate your audio and cause it to sound more quiet than in FCP. To overcome this, change that setting to -31db, which will ensure there is no attenuation and the sound coming out should then be the same as the sound going in.
Then flick through to the preprocessing tab where you may see the profile set to film standard compression - change that to be 'none'.
These two changes should help ensure the sound coming out is nearer in volume to the sound going in.

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