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Exporting OMF for ProTools (2 Gig limit error)
We edited our feature film in Premiere Pro CS4.1
Currently we are trying to go to sound (ProTools) and thus need to export an OMF.
The project is broken down into 5 approximately twenty-minute “reels.”
ProTools is having trouble linking external audio files upon import, thus, we need to create an OMF with the audio files encapsulated (included) in the OMF.
However, any time we try to generate an OMF using the “encapsulated” setting, there is an error stating: “OMF has a 2 Gig limit for the Encapsulated OMF file. Export preference has been changed to External Media Files.”
This is incredibly frustrating. First of all, the audio for the reel is only around 700MB (when you use the “separate audio files” setting. Furthermore, if you erase every clip in the entire project but one, you still get the same error (even after resaving the project with just the one clip). Obviously the one clip is NOWHERE NEAR 2 Gigs (not even the original, untrimmed audio file), so why does Premiere keep generating this error?
Anybody who’s had success generating OMF’s for ProTools via Premiere, please chime in!
Thanks.
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Have you changed the lowest selection: Render to Trim Audio Files.
Default seems to be Copy Complete Audio Files -
Yep, that’s why I put the phrase, “(not even the original, untrimmed audio file)” in the part about the single clip, but thanks for checking to see if that could be it.
I’ve tried exporting AAF instead of OMF now, so I’ll find out later today if ProTools will deal with that format. Fingers crossed.
I’d still like to know why Adobe Premiere Pro is showing this “2 Gig” error no matter how big the project is. I even tried creating a new project with just one small audio file, and I still got the 2GB error on OMF export.
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Really odd.
I just tested with two hour timeline, simple cuts, one audio track. With 25 frame handles .omf file was about 1.3 gigs.
Last summer I did one OMF file with this Copy Complete Audio Files
MediaFiles folder was over 5 gigs.
Sound engineer did a little more handwork, I don’t know what, but managed to open OMF successfully in ProTools.
So it is possible also with External Media Files. -
Using the “external file” method we finally got the OMF opened in ProTools today (AAF out of Premiere into ProTools was a no go). There were a few clips that ProTools couldn’t figure out how to hook up, but for the most part it was good.
So while we got the external media OMF working, I’m still wondering why I can’t generate an “encapsulated” OMF.
Frustrating.
Thanks for testing for me, Pentti.
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