• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  OMF for audio sweetening

  Posted by Chris Poisson on January 23, 2008 at 9:14 pm

  I’ve never done one of these before, is there anything I need to be wary of?

  Simple talking head 5 minute show, my sound guy wants an OMF to clean up some noise and whatnot, project is 720p.

  Have a wonderful day.

  Chris Borjis replied 18 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chris Poisson

  January 23, 2008 at 9:23 pm

  Sorry for the double post!

  Have a wonderful day.
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  Paul Escandon

  January 23, 2008 at 9:30 pm

  It’s pretty straight-forward. Make sure that none of the audio tracks are disabled unless you don’t want those appearing in the OMF.

  You only have a few options in the OMF export settings – audio bit rate, depth, and handle length (at least in 5.1.4 this is the case).

  Final Cut improved their OMF export in version 6 to allow any keyframing you did to be carried over. If you’re on an older version of Final Cut keep in mind this data won’t transfer.

  It might be a good idea to render a low res quicktime for the Pro Tools guy to load into his system. I usually work in HD but render a DV quicktime for the Pro Tools guy to work with here.

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  Chris Borjis

  January 24, 2008 at 10:31 pm

  make sure to include the handles I think it defaults to 1 second which is fine.

  and like Paul mentioned, do include a DV quicktime of it and add a timecode window that matches your timeline just in case.

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