Finalcut OMF’s to Nuendo, does it work ??? Deadline closing in

[Shane Ross]

Automatic Duck. Look it up and see if it will do this for Nuendo. I know it does it for ProTools.

And as far as I knew, I thought that the OMF directly from FCP to protools ALSO didn’t preserve the rubberbanding. That you needed the Duck for that too…

[Anders Haavie]

Well. My protools guys told me that with fcp 5.0 the rubberband info is preserved within the omf file !!!

Great..

Anders

[Shane Ross]

That’s nice to know.

Not that my protools guy uses my prelay. Sometimes he does, sometimes he does it from scratch. But nice to know that it is now preserved.

[Wes Plate]

Well. My protools guys told me that with fcp 5.0 the rubberband info is preserved within the omf file !!!

No, this is not the case, even in the latest FCP there is no volume info in the built-in OMF export.

Our Pro Export FCP plug-in does preserve volume information, and Nuendo 3.1 will be able to read it.
Just be sure that before you do the export you read the user guide, you’ll need to disable the export of pan information so that Nuendo will read the “rubberbands”.

— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck

[Samuel Frazier]

Also, Automatic Duck only transfers keyframed volume changes into Nuendo. That means if you use the pen tool anywhere on the volume of the clip then it carries over. But, if you just raised or lowered the volume without a keyframe then it won’t carry over. Hope I’m explaining this okay. Anyway, check their manual as it explains it much better than I just did.

[Wes Plate]

More accurately, we put volume information into the OMF, even clip-based gain. However Nuendo 3.1 is only able to read keyframed volume information from our OMFs.

— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck

[Samuel Frazier]

Right, I’m sorry, Wes. The fault definitely lies with Nuendo. That said, I REALY REALY hope Automatic Duck figures out a way to add keyframes to the front and tail of all audio clips to work around Nuendo’s deficiency.