FCP X Project does not import into Automatic Duck

[Jeremy Garchow]

Could be, which would be easy to test by breaking your Project into multiple Projects.

Do you have any strange media in there, like caf or other non PCM audio?

[Matt Degennaro]

yikes.

indeed I do have some caf sfx files in there(that came with FCP X).

i’m going to try to take them out and have another go at it.

(and then if it works convert the caf files into mp3 and stick them back in there.)

[Jeremy Garchow]

I’d convert them to 16 bit 48k aiff rather than mp3.

Jeremy

[Matt Degennaro]

No dice with taking the Caf files out (but thanks for the suggestion)

EDIT: it is too big! I deleted some to test and it imported!

Now, how do I break apart the project without making a mess (so I can easily put the final sound mix back in after?)

Thanks!

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Matt DeGennaro] ”
Now, how do I break apart the project without making a mess (so I can easily put the final sound mix back in after?)

Thanks!”

Where are you sending it to?

You could fairly simply attach the two sections together in a DAW and then get the stems back at the full length of the program.

Did you try sending the second half over? If the second half his over, then you know it has something to do with the length, if it doesn’t then there’s probably something weird with the media, like a file that’s not an aiff or wave, or non PCM audio.

[Matt Degennaro]

“Did you try sending the second half over?”

Yes, indeed. and they both started to bring up the “options” window – so they took.

My goal is to put the OMF files on a separate Hard Drive to give to a sound mixer. I’m pretty sure I have to break it up into 3 separate parts – as when I was testing making one half, I got the dreaded “your file would be more than 2GB – try again” message.

My concern is not to break it apart at some random parts to confuse him and mess us both up.

Forgive my newbieness – this is all out of the realm of my knowledge.

[Simon Ubsdell]

Try using AAF rather than OMF – AAF does not have the file size limit and is generally preferable these days.

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Matt DeGennaro] “My concern is not to break it apart at some random parts to confuse him and mess us both up.

Forgive my newbieness – this is all out of the realm of my knowledge.”

Don’t worry, you’re asking all the right questions. Can’t fault you for what you don’t know.

I would dupe your project three times and then you have to find logical cut points.

Name them “ProjectName_1of3”, “…_2of3” and so on.

For the first timeline (from the beginning) simply delete everything after the first cut point. Make sure to try and not cut in the middle of the clip. Note the tc out point of the sequence.

Then open your second timeline. Go to one frame after the previous tc out point (essentially the next frame) of your sequence and replace everything before it with a gap clip. Then find your second cut point, note the tc out and delete evrything after that.

Open the third. Go to one frame after the previous out point and replace all of that with a gap. Then you should export all three of those separately.

Some tips. You can move everything out of the primary storyline to crate the gap clip very easily. Select the necessary media and hit command, shift, up arrow. This should be on the media you want to delete. Then simply delete everything above the gap clips leaving behind the necessary media.

Also, I’m not sure where you are sending this, but perhaps you should try an AAF

It does not have the 2GB limit. See if you sound mixer can accept AAF.

Hope this all makes sense. Ask any questions.

Jeremy

[Matt Degennaro]

Thanks so much Jeremy for the detailed instructions (thanks Simon, too)

It’s going to Pro Tools – and I’m going to give the sound guy a call and see if AIFF is good for him.

One question: When making the three dupes – do I “Dup Project Only”, “Dup Proj and Referenced Events” or “Dup proj and used clips only”?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Matt DeGennaro] “It’s going to Pro Tools – and I’m going to give the sound guy a call and see if AIFF is good for him.”

It’s AAF, not aiff. They are two totally different things. If going to Pro Tools, AAF will work just fine and Automatic Duck supports it.

[Matt DeGennaro] “One question: When making the three dupes – do I “Dup Project Only”, “Dup Proj and Referenced Events” or “Dup proj and used clips only”?”

When preparing for OMF, you would use dupe project only.

Jeremy