Compressed audio is too quiet

After compressing (150 minute DVD Best Quality), the audio that was once full sounding as a .mov from FCP, is now very quiet once compressed. I have to turn up TV to hear it. Any advice?

Also, the -27 is so that when audio is mixed so that the stereo (or more) channels each are individually peaked at zero db, when summing them for mono (many TVs) you don't get +3 which is a digital over and is HORRIBLE.
When mixing audio for video, 2.0, 4.0, 3/2, whatever, you really have to be concerned with various downmixing scenarios. For me, I always use the -27; I've experimented with the preprocessing stuff. One of my digital processors (Meridian 861) has an "AC3 AS MIX" setting that uses that preprocessing information to normalize the audio. Lots of Hollywood DVDs (and blurays, for that matter) set that flag and information. Then the audio is too quiet unless I use the "AC3 AS MIX" setting; but some stuff, like the DIsney Channel HD or the old Alien DVD set, if AS MIX is used, the sound basically disappears. It should never have been parts of the Dolby Digital standard, IMHO. DTS doesn't seem to need it
Eddie O

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I have never liked that "duplicate the track" to make it louder method. When you duplicate the track, you're also duplicating the noise floor, making the background noise twice as loud, too.
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