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Originally Posted by Greg Reierson  If you're working at 24 bits or higher it really doesn't matter that much. If your peaks are at -20 dBFS that still leaves you 124dB to work with. Probably enough.
Just leave some headroom without having to use a limiter and you'll be fine.
Greg Reierson
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Agreed, keeping in mind that if you're talking DVD, you don't have the same leeway as if the final destination is CD. If the source files are 24-bit and they're going to end up on a 24-bit DVD, you don't want the sources to peak at -20dBFS. Far from horrible, but not ideal either.
If you're going from 24-bit sources to 16-bit CDs, then yeah you have 20-40dB to play with depending on your converters.