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Dream on Premiere advocates
I wanted Premiere to work. Using 5.5 on a Mac.
Cut a 38 min. doc and it was fine
until had to make MPEG 2 which took forever. Now trying to make
OMF’s and it crashes repeatedly. Trying the Render and Replace method
which also looks like it will take over 2 hours if it doesn’t crash.
Can you really call yourself a serious NLE if you can’t create
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That’s it everyone, Harry ran into a technical problem.
Get your coats and go home.
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If you research this topic you’ll see I’m not alone in this.
Not being able to export OMFs is kind of important.
But funny line anyway. -
I’m in the same boat as I need OMF for the preferred local audio mixer/Pro Tools guy. However, the world has long moved on to AAF. OMFs like EDLs are sadly a vestige of older times, though they still continue to be in heavy use. Adobe – like XtoPro – is geared to AAF and that may be part of the technical issues you are running into. The fact of the matter is that if you work in a world where collaboration with various other editors, mixers, etc. is essential, no one does this better than Avid.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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What errors are you guys getting when you export OMFs from Premiere? And this is in 5.5, right?
I export OMF from Premiere all the time to our sound guy and we’ve never had a problem. Wonder what the difference is between my system and yours.
To compare:
I’m running a 2008 Mac Pro, Lion 10.7.3, CS5.5 fully updated.
My OMF export settings:
OMF set to 48000, 16 bits per sample, Files:Encapsulate, Render: Copy Complete Audio Files. Imports into ProTools 10 just fine and I think it imported into the previous version too (audio guy is offsite but I know he just updated to 10, not sure what he was running prior).—————-
Michael Hancock
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[Harry Kafka] “Can you really call yourself a serious NLE if you can’t create
simple OMFs. I think not.”FCX can’t. Requires a third party app to do that. OMF’s are something Apple doesn’t seem to think you need anymore.
And CS5.5 is old. CS6 is the new version, and it exports AAF, that ProTools loves.
Shane
Little Frog Post
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
[Oliver Peters] “I’m in the same boat as I need OMF for the preferred local audio mixer/Pro Tools guy.”
Is this audio guy just running a few-versions-old Pro Tools that can’t import AAF?
Best,
Andy -
[Harry Kafka] “If you research this topic you’ll see I’m not alone in this.
Not being able to export OMFs is kind of important.
But funny line anyway.”Yeahn sorry for the sarcasm 🙂
It is important I will totally agree. Hope Adobe can/has fixed in CS6 ? Maybe a bug fix report is in order
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[Andrew Richards] “Is this audio guy just running a few-versions-old Pro Tools that can’t import AAF?”
He’s running an OS9 version (!!!) that still works like a champ. He only uses it for ProTools and has a huge investment in plug-ins, so he doesn’t want to upgrade. It only does OMF, not AAF. There are other guys in town with much newer systems, but he’s the preferred agency mixer. Fast and does good mixes.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
On a similar note, I tried importing an EDL into PProCS6 for a test. No go. All timeline clips seem to line up at the head of the clip, not the proper in time. Same EDL imports correctly in Color. Haven’t tested it with SG yet.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “He’s running an OS9 version (!!!) that still works like a champ. He only uses it for ProTools and has a huge investment in plug-ins, so he doesn’t want to upgrade.”
I had a feeling it was that kind of thing… Does he have a stockpile of old Macs that he uses for parts?
Best,
Andy
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