Exporting OMF — 2gb limit

[Russell Lasson]

You can also just export a couple of tracks at a time instead of exporting everything at once.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Steven Gonzales]

I looked it up and the cost of storage in 1991 was $7 a megabyte.

That 2 gigabyte OMF file back then would occupy approx. $14,000 worth of hard drive space.

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[Dom Silverio]

I just checked, it was 1990. That is $9.

[Kris Anderson]

If your audio dude is mixing in protools, send him an AAF. No 2gb limit. If he’s not, you’re going to have to break the sequence down into smaller portions.

MacPro 8 core 3ghz – 8gig RAM – Mac OS 10.4.11
2.5tb internal RAID on Apple Raid Card
+ AJA Kona 3 + Sonnet External RAID

[Jim Blokland]

Is it possible to export an AAF from Final Cut? If so, can you point me to information how to do so?

Thanks in advance.

Best, JIM.

OSX.4.10
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box
Seritek 1.5 TB RAID
AVID XPRESS PRO/MOJO

[Giorgia Villa]

Hi!
Have you just work with XML-PRO?

thanks!!!!

Giorgia

[Ian Mcfarland]

What I do is make a 2 second beep with matching visual at the begining and end of each track then run each track out as a OMF. The mixer then just takes them into Pro tools and synces them all up in the same sequence.

[Dan Lujan]

As Russel said, just export one or two tracks at a time. Disable each track except the one you want to export. When the mixer imports them into Pro Tools he just has to import “Session Data” instead of audio.

[Paul Jay]

All you have to do is media manage your FCP project.

When you captured complete tapes the OMF export will use complete source files.

This way you get above 2GB easily.