I edited a commercial for a school project on Vegas, but I needed to deliver it to the store owner on miniDV (because they actually plan to use it on local cable ads). Since I don't have a miniDV deck or camera, I brought my Firewire drive to school and brought the finished AVI into FinalCut Pro to print to their miniDV deck. FCP had a default level of -12db for the tone (as in bars and tone). My project varies between 0 and -6db but never clips. I questioned that default for the tone and my teacher said that -12db in digital equated to 0 in analog. So he suggested that I lower the project audio by -12db before I print. This didn't sound right to me, but until recently he worked at the cable ads office that is receiving this for air, so I figure who am I to argue? But I am still curious so I am posting here. What do you all say? Should I have done what he said, or left the piece as is and raise the tone to -0db?