Vegas Audio compression question

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Hi all,

I just used the track compressor in Vegas 7 to even out the levels somewhat from a holiday video. Whilst my ears are very happy with the results, I'm not sure to make of it technically.

After opening the audio track in Adobe Audition 1.5 & checking the statistics it says there are still 60-69 (each channel) possibly clipped samples.

Seems a bit odd as the whole movie plays back fine from within Vegas without clipping, plus I set the output gain on the track compressor to -1db before rendering to a new track as well.

I know Audition only says possibly clipped samples, but I was expecting it to say none. Is Vegas just pushing right up to the limit but not exceeding it perhaps, would that make Audition give me such a reading?

Is there any other, possibly freeware audio analyzer I could try?

Thanks in advance.

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After testing it seems Audition shows 0.0db as a possible clip, this was verified when I normalized the audio file by 99.9% just to try it out.

Doing so yielded no possibly clipped samples and had next to no effect on what is heard so that's what I'm going with.

I guess Vegas doesn't show 0.0db as a clip, only when it's exceeded.