Fcp audio normalization

I recorded a dress rehearsal of the Music Man, a local production. Since I was closer to the orchestra than to the actors (who all wore mics connected to the House speakers), the audio required a lot of tweaking, using keyframes in the Viewer. I worked with eight different clips in this way. Now, at the end of the project, should I normalize the audio? And, if so, should I do it clip by clip, or is there a way to normalize all the clips at once? Thanks for your help.

Jerry, You asked me to get back to you about my normalization question in fcp. So, after doing a **** of a lot of audio adjustments manually, using keyframes, I made a new Sequence, copied the original and normalized the whole track (which included a lot of Timeline edits). I then exported both Sequences and made a DVD of each one in DVD Studio Pro. When we listened to each DVD on my home entertainment system, the normalized track sounded better. In a couple of places, I had brought up the gain on quiet segments of on-stage conversation using keyframes. In one case I brought it up from 0db to 11db. And still, on the non-normalized version, the conversation was too quiet. In the normaized version, this conversation was definitely louder, without clipping, and it fit better with the loud orchestra segment that surrounded it.
Thanks for asking,
Robert

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