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Importing .omf files?
At my college, we use Avid Media Composer for editing. Being that it (annoyingly) captures in a seemingly-proprietary .omf format, I cannot import anything I captured with Avid into Final Cut.
This is extremely annoying, as I would like to edit one of my projects better, and I won’t have access to the university computers or Avid for a couple months.
There’s seemingly no way to import the clips captured in Avid. At least none that I know of. Perhaps I could be wrong. Is there? If not, I hate Avid and its dumb formats.
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You can go to Avid’s website and download the Avid codecs and put those in your QUICKTIME folder in the LIBRARY. Then you can see if FCP will see the files.
But as a general rule you never capture footage on one NLE for use on another. Every NLE captures differently.
Shane
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I believe that before you use the codec solution that you will have to export Quicktimes from Avid before bringing them into Final Cut. I did some funkiness (granted a couple years ago) where i captured in an Xpress pro, exported Quicktime reference movies, Imported into FCP, reconnected to the OMFI Media files and handed it off to an editor to cut. He said all went well but I didnt stick around for the final product 🙂 In any case Shanes advice is solid: Stick to one NLE for capture and offline.
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