Sound too loud in Built DVD

Hello. New to Encore and Premeire Pro. Just completed a project in Premeire Pro and burned a DVD using Encore (both CS5). When I play commercial DVDs on my settop player, the sound can be set between 40 - 50 on my receiver. The one I burned nearly blew the speakers. I had to drop the volume down to 8 to make it comperable to the commercial disks. How come it burned so loud? Is there a setting in either Premeire or Encore to control the level for the whole DVD? We made individual adjustments to various parts of the footage in Premeire, so I really don't want to change that. I am hoping there is a setting in Encore to control the level output to the DVD.
Thank you very much.

Back in PrPro, you can use the Audio Mixer to adjust the SPL (Levels) of the Master and that will probably be the easiest place to accomplish this.
One side-note: I find that many Menus' Audio is set far, far too loud on commercial DVD's (and also on non-commercial ones too). Besides the SPL for the overall Audio, do consider any Menu Audio. It should be background only, IMHO, and not something to rattle the rafters.
Though I use my ears a bit more than the meters, I end up around -6 to -9 dB for the general Audio and about -12dB for any Menu Audio. That is just where I like it. Of course I also hate Audio mixes where the Score (music) and the SFX are at about +3dB and the dialog is at -18dB, but that's 'cause I am old and like to hear the dialog. Also, my my system will reproduce those SFX at monster levels, and my neighbors will complain - closest one is almost 1/4 mile away. The airplane crash scene in Fight Club almost resulted in having the cops called on me, and all I wanted to do was hear the dialog. Just a pet-peeve of mine.
Good luck,
Hunt

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