Final Cut Pro & Pro Tools…WAV

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Norman,
I don’t think there is the solution you are asking for.
Anyway I think this is an issue of your sound people. Most of the people works with the FC’s OMFs in ProTools and other pro application without problems.
rafael

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Norman Greenwood] “From what they tell me, everything works well until they have to export. However, if they were working purely with WAV files, apparently they would not have nearly as many problems. “

Well, then they’re completely wrong vs. all the sound designers we work with. We send an OMF to them, they send us either wavs or aiffs of the final mixes. There is no issue with the FCP OMFs.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Mark Raudonis]

Norman,

I agree with Walter. Your sound people are either retards or liars. We’ve been creating OMF’s from FCP and handing them off to our ProTools mixers without issue for years now.

Mark

[Dylan Reeve]

This sounds very weird. OMF is a multi-channel audio format designed especially for this sort of thing. As far as I know it directly supports two audio containers, AIFF or SD2 and AIFF is the only one still in common use.

Sending a WAV would be a flat file with. FCP does have the option to export AIFFs of your sequence, which will export multiple tracks separately, but an OMF is much better as it can include audio handles and other useful stuff.

Format-wise, AIFF and WAV are basically identical, they are both uncompressed PCM audio files. ProTools has no problem with AIFF files.

[Norman Greenwood]

I never said that the OMFs did not work. They are working with over 100 audio tracks, and for the setup they have, Pro Tools has told them it will not work properly.

[Stace Carter]

Sheesh, you could use iTunes to do the conversion from AIFF (and I think you CAN output a WAV from FCP, can’t you? – not in front of my system right now), but I have to agree with the majority of posts here, something smells really fishy about the complaint from your sound dept.

And if they haven’t figured out how to convert AIFFs to WAVs, well, that speaks volumes as well.

[Norman Greenwood]

I am not sure why so many assumptions have misconstrued what I was trying to ask.

But yes, I can make WAV files; after having done some more research on the net. Also, everyone here can convert, it is just the amount of tracks and the integration of Pro Tools that has been a worry.

Everything can be done, I think they just wanted to know if it could be more efficient on one end or the other since time is money.

Thanks for all the comments.