Strange audio clipping problem - Premiere vs. DVD

[andy2003]

I am building a DVD of footage from my DV camera with Premiere among other tools. When viewing on my camcorder or editing in Premiere the audio sounds perfect and there is no clipping. However when I burn a DVD or encode to Windows Media there is horrible clipping when the sound is the loudest (a baby crying, some speech too close to the mic).

I think I just need to normalize the audio and I'm going to try out dbPowerAmp, but how can I tell what to normalize to when the audio sounds fine on my computer? I think I will also try to pull it into CoolEdit to look at the waveform...

Any ideas or suggestions on the best way to fix this?

[andy2003]

I found a solution to this: Soundforge 6's "Smooth/Enhance" option. If you smooth out the audio, it will reduce the peaks and get rid of the clipping!