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OMF export issue
I know, I know, another OMF and FCP thread.
The sound guy on a project I am on is telling me that when he receives the audio files, he gets the audio from the full shot rather than how I’ve cut them in Final Cut. Per his suggestion and the suggestions of people in these forums, I made new sequences for each individual scene, highlighted the clips and then selected “Export–>Audio to OMF” in the menu. Yet, he keeps receiving the full file rather than the cut down scenes.
What am I doing wrong? Let me know if you need any more info before lending suggestions. I’m probably just missing a step somewhere in the middle.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
(In case this helps, the footage was shot on the Canon Mk II, audio was captured using a boom straight into the camera’s audio in.)
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9 Replies
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#1 – make sure every clip has a reel name.
#2 – Make sure you have a handle length.
But mainly #1. FCP doesn’t work right if you don’t give footage reel names.
Shane
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Also, make sure your timeline is clean and enabled. Meaning no tracks/clips disabled, all audio 48k PCM.
How long is your program, does the OMF import in to Soundtrack Pro for you?
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Bit confusing. You don’t need to select clips in a timeline to export an OMF but you do need to select a sequence in the bin. Are you doing that? OMFs are exported of the whole sequence. Marking IN/Out points also makes no difference. You can however, disable tracks which will prevent them from being exported.
Also what program is being used to import the OMF.
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The files are being imported into Pro Tools and are being selected properly. He’s getting the audio for each individual scene, but from the beginning to the end of the original clip.
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Turns out I don’t have reel names. How should I best proceed in numbering me reels? Based on scene (scene 1 is reel 1, s2 is r2, etc) or should everything be marked reel 1?
Thanks a ton everyone.
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Are you trying to edit the native H264 files? Are you exporting the OMF from a timeline?
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Unfortunately yes, it’s the original H.264 files. I’ve since learned that that’s a huge NO whenever working with 5D, 7D, etc footage in FCP.
I’m exporting the OMF from a timeline that has just one scene in it. Instead, should I be selecting the sequence in the browser and then exporting from there?
Again thanks for all the help.
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[Brittany DeLillo] “Unfortunately yes, it’s the original H.264 files. I’ve since learned that that’s a huge NO whenever working with 5D, 7D, etc footage in FCP. “
That might be the biggest issue of all. Non-editing media. No reel numbers. You didn’t do anything right.
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Give everything a reel number. Just try “001”, since you really don’t know where they came from it won’t matter. Try that, see what happens. If that doesn’t work, then Media Manage the sequence to an editing codec (ProRes…NOT HQ! NOT 4444!) and try again. But in order for MM to work, you need reel numbers.
And for future reference, this is how you bring in tapeless media into FCP…including Canon DSLR: Tapeless Workflow for FCP 7 Tutorial
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
Hah! Thanks for being so blunt. I’m completely aware of my mistakes and am glad I made them if for no other reason than to learn from them. That being said, I received the files without any valid directory structure so Log and Transfer had nothing to link onto in the first place. Group fail.
I’ll try out your suggestions and see if that will solve this debacle. Again, much thanks.
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