AVID to FCP sound relink?

[Micah Haun]

Doesn’t automatic duck let you bring in media as well? Particularly since you’re dealing with uncompressed audio, you aren’t going to lose quality by bringing it in this way.

if this is not an option, here is how you give your audio back its original name:

In avid, go to the bin with your source audio. Scroll over to the “Tape ID” column. It should have your source file name.

If Tape ID does not have your source file name. Add a new heading and call it something like “Media Name”. Assuming your clips are still named after their source files, duplicate the “Name” field (cmd D) over to your new “Media Name” column.

Create a new bin in your project and duplicate the sequence to it. Open this sequence and delete all video tracks. Decompose the sequence, un-check “offline only”, and set it to imported and captured clips. I would also un-check the option to make a new sequence, but it won’t hurt anything. Now reverse the process. Duplicate the “Tape ID” or “Media Name” column back to the “Name” column. Your timeline will now have audio with the correct clip names.

[Michael Gissing]

Export an audio OMF or AAF directly from the AVID to load into your sound post machine. There is nothing to gain by bringing anything in FCP except a guide mix track for onlining.