Export AAF Export

[Troy Murison]

FWIW, we’ve never been able to get a AAF from PPro to Avid
(Xpress Pro HD, Adrenaline or |DS) with any sort of consistency.
We’ve done lots of testing both ways (Avid to PPro and vis-versa).
We’ve found that Avid’s AAFs are not completely compliant with
the rest of the industry’s AAFs and there’s not much anyone
can do about it. Quantel found a solution recently (we have
several eQ’s here) but they had to do it on their own from what
I understand. Avid wasn’t about to help them out and take away
their workflow/profit center between Avid MC line and |DS.

Wish I had better info or helpful info for you, but we gave up
a while back.

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Alex Udell]

Hey Curtis…

Here’s a guess…

what if you went to the Project Manager and created a new trimmed project…

then you created the AAF from that?

I don’t know about the Sequence though….

That’s weird..

does Autopmatic duck help here?

http://www.automaticduck.com

Alex

[Curtis]

A new trimmed project didn’t help, and Auto Duck has no product for this path. What I really do not understand about PPro, is that a trimmed project does not generate trimmed clips. Apparently, it only trims media. I need a list of the clips as used in the timeline. Or better, an AAF that will generate a sequence.

[Marisu Fronc]

Curtis –

Have you tried exporting an edl? Not as elegant a solution, but you will definitely get a sequence (perhaps combine this with the aaf or a batch list of clips for capture)?

slainte,
marisu

[Alex Udell]

Hey Marisu…

I thought about the EDL and AAF combo….BUT even if you batch the AAF…

you can’t attach that to the clip sin the sequence…

EDL and redigitize is really the way to go…

Alex

[Marisu Fronc]

Alex-

Yeah – that’s the way I usually do it – I thought perhaps there were elements that DON’T travel with the edl (in other words non-timecoded sources) that perhaps would be easier to import into the project via AAF. I usually strip all the non-recapturable sources out of the timeline – export an edl – import it into premiere, then import and hand cut in all the graphics/etc (which can take forever). If there is a better way I’d LOVE to find it! The downside to this is, of course, the problems caused by dealing with an edl – Premiere in particular has a lot of trouble with audio (as in – it doesn’t relate it to video and can see it as mono, left and right tracks or stereo track – which can require capturing the same thing 4 or 5 times), but, in the end, it is easier than starting from scratch and certainly meets the stated goal of knowing in & out points and where they fall in the program.

slainte,
marisu

[Curtis]

Indeed, I’m batch digitizing the EDL as I type. Just to eliminate mulitple problems, I collapsed all of the TC video clips down to V1, and exported a video-only edl. Once this one is in, I’ll start working on the audio, exporting an audio-only version. I am apprehensive about how it will work with PPro’s stero channels feeding a mon channels edl.

[Marisu Fronc]

Curtis –

I’ve had some slight hitches (in reverse) bringing in edl’s with mono audio to premiere – the biggest one is that although it sees the file in the project window as left/right or mono the files it captures is actually DV compliant stereo SO . . . it won’t relink the files if you happen to crash during capture. Once I figured that out I captured each roll one at a time and saved after each was complete. The only other hitch was if I then wanted to bring in sources NOT captured through the edl – now I need to have both stereo and mono sync tracks (and god forbid you only want to use one channel – it will “create” a new track for the other one (which always seems to end up offscreen) and then I have to go down/clear the extra track and delete it. It does, however, work – which, in the end, is all that matters.

slainte,
marisu