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Exporting OMF from After effects Work Around
Hey dudes,
I figured out a work around to exporting an OMF out of After Effects, but I feel like I’m making this way harder than it needs to be.
The way I’m working around it now is:
1. Copy and Paste the audio from AE into a Premiere timeline
2. Export an XML from that (for some reason, I could only export encapsulated audio, when I tried to export the OMF from Premiere whenever I try to export with separate audio files Premeire crashed every time)
3. Import the XML into Audition
4. Export OMF from AuditionLike I said, it worked, but I feel like there is a much easier way to do this and I’d really like to know how I can make this easier.
I’m currently working on the CS6 Creative Suite:
Mac OS X 10.7.5
2 x 2.4 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
32GB 1066 MHz DDR3Dunno if any of that is relevant, anywho, thanks in advance!
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Dave,
For sure man, so generally how a project will work is, I’ll get a song, VO, and a script. From there, I lay the audio track down and make a couple simple cuts as needed to line up portions of the audio with animations I’m creating, nothing crazy, just a couple cuts and will move the audio up and down the timeline as needed, then, I’ll do the same with the VO if I need some space in between breaths, etc.
After the animation is done and clients have approved the piece, we’ll have the audio mixed.
Before the sound studio would just take the original audio files from them and reposition them on their end as they were in my final video, but in this instance, the audio place requested an OMF with the audio files in place as they were in my timeline.
I’ve been doing this for 10 years and never really had to deal with audio, as I’m mostly a designer/animator so it definitely felt like it was a very bizarre way to do it, but looking online didn’t really offer any other solutions and this is just kind of the one I came up with.
So I’m pretty much asking, how do you other guys do it?
daviddodge.co
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