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Exporting OMF — 2gb limit
Hi,
I’m trying to export to OMF the audio for my feature documentary (one hour, 34 minutes in length). However, no matter how I try, I can’t seem to get rid of the 2gb error message that pops up when I go to “Export to OMF.”I have tried exporting just one track at a time (by deleting all the other tracks in the project), and I still get the 2gb message.
My sound mixer, however, has often received Final Cut Pro OMF files before for feature length projects, so I’m wondering if I’m either doing something incorrectly, or if I have a setting wrong.
I recognize an alternative is to break up the projects into acts and export to OMF that way — but my mixer would very much prefer that I give him the project file as a whole, with OMFs of one to four tracks at a time, rather than breaking up the film into acts.
Might you know of a solution? Thank you for your thoughts on this!
Best,
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19 Replies
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Are you exporting to a drive formatted as FAT32? Maybe a flash drive or external drive that’s used as a go-between for a Windows and Mac system?
It sounds like a file management problem with the drive itself.
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Thanks for your input.
I’ve been exporting it to the main internal hard drive on my Mac. I haven’t heard of FAT32, but I can try to export it to an external hard drive.
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No, if it’s your main drive, that’s not the problem. Just a guess that didn’t work out.
I’m afraid I don’t have any other ideas.
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Ok, I just tried to export it to an external hard drive, and I got the same 2gb error message.
Any additional thoughts on the matter would be very much appreciated!
Thank you,
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I think there may be a 2 gig limit on OMF file format itself.
You can place sync marks on each audio track (one frame pop), and try exporting only 2 tracks at a time (for example, copy the sequence, and delete the other audio tracks).
Then the sound editor can resync from the sync mark.
If going to Protools,, you could export XML directly to Protools sessions with a tool like XML Pro from Gallery Software https://www.gallery.co.uk/ .
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First off, the 2GB limit isn’t because of drive formatting, it’s a limit to the OMF standard itself.
The sound mixers I work with all prefer that I split the timeline into chunks (halves, thirds, quarters), and then they re-assemble them in the ProTools session.
How many tracks do you have? How long are your handles? Do you have any clips in your timeline that you don’t need?
Longer handles will make your OMF export larger. If you can shorten the handles, that might help quite a bit.
Remove clips that are muted or not enabled. They’re just taking up space without needing it.
Arnie
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Try breaking your reels down into 22 minute chucks, (22 minutes is the traditional length of a projected film reel).
Make the breaks at logical places–on the cut, after or before a dissolve, etc.
Warren
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As Arnie says the problem with 2gig is an OMF format limitation. We get to thank AVID for this. Some audio systems like Pyramix have been allowing an option to import FCP projects via XML.
WE can only hope that other manufacturers follow suit and we can bury OMF forever
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Even Avid is moving away from OMF and has implemented AAF export.
Michael.
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That is because OMF was created circa 1991 :/
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