Hard Limiter only works if it's below all other effects in the effects control panel

Hopefully, a product team member can give you a good response. @mstegner is there any advice you can offer?

Thanks,
Kevin

The other tools ... like compressors and such ... are typically used to keep audio to X point. Clipping means putting a hard line on a signal, which is often not ... enjoyable ... and the audio people I've worked with do everything they can to avoid clipping on sound.

So I think perhaps we are using the terminology, or understanding the process, a bit differently.

I might sound like a fool, but I use hard limiter to clip audio peaks above -6db after I've added filters and adjusted audio (generally VO or interviews) to fall between -6 and -18db.

Waaaaay back when I used FCP7 there was a "show audio peaks" and "duck audio peaks" option.

Having been schooled on this sort of thing a bit by audio geeks, well ... they asked me this:

"Why on earth anyone would put a hard limiter before other effects? What's the point?"

I rather gathered they thought the use of the hard limiter was to keep anything from 'leaking through' other effects, ensuring you don't blow that all-important QC machine check.

And only that.

Does that help? Not being an audio geek myself, it's the best I can do.