Encore audio bringing background noise to the forefront

[spoonsman]

I'm authoring a DVD with Encore.

The video files I'm using have voiceovers that all sound completely fine... until I attempt to use them in Encore.

Encore seems to automatically normalize the audio, so that what once was barely perceivable soft background noise and hiss in the is now quite audible and extremely annoying.

I've attempted to dehiss the audio in Sound Forge. That didn't help the problem too much, so I resampled the .wav to 16-bit 48,000khz PCM so that Encore wouldn't have to transcode anything, it just needs to use the damn file that I give it in the condition that I give it.

No go.

No matter what I do, Encore continues to continues to bring the background noise to the forefront, rendering my previously nice sounding audio to a notch above junk. I'm at a loss of what to do besides getting another authoring program.

Help?

[spoonsman]

After some screwing around with the audio files in Audition I got rid of the noise and got everything sounding all nice and pretty.

Yet when I stick it into Encore now instead of there being background noise everywhere, the audio is now extremely hollow. It sounds fine in absolutely any other program I open it up in other than Encore.