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OMF and Nested Sequences again.
I’m a recent convert from Vegas Pro. (Too many render crashes, too many buggy features that killed a lot of my time).
I’ve been working on a project which I’d like to send to Pro Tools. I’ve read the forums and supposedly the answer is to find the sequence within the project panel and send that to ‘Edit in Audition’
However, when I do that, it only sends over the sequence how I see it in my master time line. I need the break out of the nested sequences in in OMF.
If I send the actual nested sequences over to audition one at a time, I then have to manually resync the audio back in those sequences one at a time, which is a time killer. If I try to resync audio back into the main time line, that too is killing time since I won’t have a 2pop to sync to for any sequence but the first.
Is there a good way of handling nested sequences that need to be converted to OMF? It seems that I’ll probably have to create a 2ndary master sequence and manually put all my sequences on there before sending to audition.
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One way to do this would be to break out the nested audio in a sequence for ProTools.
Duplicate your Master Timeline.
Double click your first nested Sequence.
Copy the Audio Tracks ONLY.
Paste the audio tracks into the appropriate position in your duplicated master timeline. Essentially replacing the stereo mix that was there from your nested sequence.
Repeat for each of the nested sequences.
Now all of your original audio is together in a single timeline.
Make an OMF of that timeline, you should be good to go.
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Yea, I was afraid you were going to say that.
Sigh, guess I’ll have to do that and manually line up everything again.
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I’m caught in the same bind right now… 114 sequences in this movie…. it was nice using sequences to keep things clean during the edit but… this sucks having to cut and paste all this audio again.
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Actually friend helped me with this. If you export an Final Cut XML (w/o any effects on any of the clips), then when you import into Audition, it separates all the tracks.
However, I haven’t had this in a long time, so your mileage may vary.
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I’m hoping that’s going to work out for me. I noticed on the latest Premiere upgrade they said there was improvements to the AAF exporting although they didn’t say specifically what? I wonder if the nested audio was on the list?
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does that include fades? I just gave it a try and I just seem to be getting the stereo track of the nested sequence opening in Audition.
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