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FCP OMF Export for ProTools
Hi, I’m a junior editor working for a production company and we’ve just got a lock on our first feature.
The director and producer are flying out to the states on sunday for the sound mix so I’m trying to canvas the best way for me to export the OMFs for use within ProTools at their end in the U.S.
I’ve done a preliminary test with a trailer of ours: Exporting two OMFs ( one with the pans, transitions etc and one without ) 48Khz, 16-bit with one second handles.
The files sizes amount to 360mb for each. Given that the film is around 80 minutes it’s likely that the total size required OMFs is around 10gb. If I need to break down the the size is it best to do it in parts of the whole sequence of by individual tracks?
Someone has recommended creating an audio only FCP project and mediamanager-ing the assets onto an HDD as a back up, which sounds like a good plan.
If anyone could shed any light on the best ways to do this and offer any better suggestions/ criticisms of my current suggestions i’d be mightily appreciative.
The time delay between us and the studio means communication is extremely hard so I’m trying to collate as much knowledge as possible.
Thanks
Andrew
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4 Replies
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OMF’s have a 2GB file size limit. Also, generally, an 80-minute film would be divided into reels to make the handling easier.
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This may be right up your alley…
https://michaelkammes.com/audio/prepping-and-exporting-for-post-audio-in-final-cut-pro/
~Michael
.: michael kammes mpse
.: senior applications editor . post workflow consultant
.: audio specialist . act fcp . acsr
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, much appreciated!
Michael that blog was precisely what I was looking for!
One thing that I’m still dithering about is exporting OMFs in Reels or as seperate tracks, as If i did it in reels the TC on the OMFs won’t match up to the whole QT export?
Would you recommendation be to always break the OMFs down in to tracks as opposed to fragments of the sequence?
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That was my blog, I hope it helped. I’ve used it for many a project over the past 10 years!
I’d determine if you are going to have 1 ProTools session for the entire film OR is it going to be broken up into reels. Export OMFs according to that, and do it in 2 or 4 tracks at a time to stay under the 2GB file size limit.
As I mentioned in the blog, so a QT export with a TC window burn that matches the sequence TC so the OMF matches with the window burn. If they don’t, spotting is going to be almost impossible.
By doing both QT and OMF exports at the same time, the TC will match up, regardless of if your PT sequence is for the entire piece or reels.
~Michael
.: michael kammes mpse
.: senior applications editor . post workflow consultant
.: audio specialist . act fcp . acsr
.: michaelkammes.com
.: twitter: @michaelkammes
.: facebook: /mkammesHear me pontificate: Speaking Schedule .
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