• Avid Media Composer

  Avid Offline to FCP online – audio question

  Posted by Jaclyn Lee on March 23, 2009 at 8:11 pm

  I read somewhere that OMF and MFX files are pretty much interchangeable, but that I should check with the audio department of the post-house to determine the file format of the audio files. The post-house person wasn’t able to answer my question, so I’m hoping someone out here will.

  I’m working on a Mac G5 with Xpress Pro 5.8. I plan on digitizing both audio and video as MFX files. Audio will be at 48kh and video will be 15:1. The online is on an FCP system using ProTools for audio. The online people told me they would need an accurate export of the Avid sequence (in OMF 2.0)for the audio files.

  My question is: will I encounter any problems in getting the Avid audio MFX file into FCP protools? Or should I be saving it as an OMF file?

  Shane Ross replied 17 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Shane Ross

  March 24, 2009 at 2:46 am

  FCP Protools? You are confused. ProTools is a stand along audio editing application. The industry standard audio editing application. Avid now owns it, so it is very compatible with Avid.

  When you finish mixing with ProTools, you output AIFF files that you can import into FCP or Avid.

  Shane

  

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