Audio OMF and Timecode

[Shane Ross]

Well, OMF is the standard for sending audio files and has been for a while. It doesn’t carry source timecode? What about one from an Avid? I wonder if OMFs exported via Automatic Duck carries this information.

And EDL will carry this information, and I occasionally export an EDL for the audio house to recapture the audio from scratch.

Shane

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[Greg Curda]

Thanks for the response, Shane. I’m trying to find out what will work natively, or does each solution require a helper app. Don’t know about Avid…Looked at Final Duck, and will investigate further. EDL is also a known option, but I don’t think ProTools can do anything with that, natively. Need PostConform, or some other such helper. A native solution would be best.

T’ve got 8 channels of audio coming in from production and trying to keep the picture editor’s track count down to 1 mix track, but not make a ton of work for the dialog guys reconnecting the other 7 tracks. So you can see that source TC would be helpful. Or just ask the editor to bite the bullet and cut with 8 channels, then produce an OMF (don’t need source TC anymore)??

[Bouke Vahl]

I’ve never sat in a Protools session, but have send a lot away to audio post using OMF.

I ALWAYS include everything post needs. So yes, bite the bullit and edit with all tracks if they are all going to be used.
(No point in sending away silent tracks…)

Now it has been a long time since i did OMF export from FCP, but can remember that handles were a problem in the old days. Not sure if that still is the case. (Someone will chime in here, i’m sure.)

If this is still a problem, give post some extra meat….

Bouke

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[Greg Curda]

Hi Bouke,

Ah, if only I could divert the attention to something like handles…haha. Handles are readily available and in a variety of lengths…one for every budget..haha.

I think that there is a native translation problem between FCP and PT when it comes to embedded TC in audio tracks. We’ll just do it the old fashioned way…sync by hand. It’s sometimes faster than trying to figure out why the conversion didn’t work…haha.

G