• Avid Media Composer

  from avid to soundtrack pro

  Posted by Matthew Edwards on April 8, 2014 at 8:43 pm

  Hi guys. Newbie question here but i am working on avid mc 5 and i am ready to go to sound. The problem is that before with fcp i would just go file-export for soundtrack pro. But what about with avid? is it even possible? If it is how do i export using avid for soundtrack pro?

  Avid Media Composer 5.5.3
  Soundtrack Pro Vr. 3.0.1

  MAC PRO OSX 10.8.4
  Processor 2 x 2.8 Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  Memory 8 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

  Matthew Edwards replied 12 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  John Pale

  April 9, 2014 at 2:59 am

  Soundtrack Pro can import an AAF or OMF exported from Avid.
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  Matthew Edwards

  April 9, 2014 at 6:06 am

  Ok. So I export as omf. But when I hit export on avid. It spent give me a omf option just aiff. I am sry I am new to avid and I am going to search the interwebs some more see if I can find how to use omf lol
  Thanks for the quick response!
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  John Pale

  April 9, 2014 at 12:38 pm

  You can’t export OMF from Avid from an HD project.
  Use AAF.

  You can actually still export OMF, but you have to switch the project temporarily to SD. Why bother. Soundtrack Pro takes both.

  (I know everyone says OMF like it’s the gold standard. Avid invented the OMF format and now has superseded it with AAF. They did this about a decade ago, but many still reflexively ask for OMF files, for some reason.)
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  Matthew Edwards

  April 9, 2014 at 7:16 pm

  Thanks John for the reply! Yeah i have been experimenting with exporting aaf but still haven’t been able to see everything in stp. Should i be consolidating all media or just link to? it take a long while just to export each time so i really appreciate the responses!
  I am on a deadline and unfortunately it is coming up fast!

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