free utilities to preview omf’s?

[Wes Plate]

No, sorry.

— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck

[Alex Alexzander]

Darn it!

I thought Wes would have a gem of an application I didn’t know about. Oh well..

-Alex

[Tae]

Avid free.

[Baba Goof]

i was told in a separate thread that avid free couldn’t
read omf’s captured by xpress pro. is that not true?

[Joseph Mehr]

Be patient !
A Russian “inventor” is hard working on a free media management tool which, in it’s definitive version, will show up omf media.
It’s still a beta version you can download here.
https://fiool.nm.ru/progz/

[Alex Alexzander]

You were told correctly.

Avid Free cannot open an what it’s version doesn’t capture. I still have Avid Free on laptop thinking that same thought months ago. It doesn’t work.

What would be great is if Avid setup an embedded plug in for web browsers, so we could build our own web-based software for intranets to view Avid media.

-Alex

[Baba Goof]

that’s great news! just looked at the site though. any info
in english? before i download it, is the app in english or
russian? might be pretty difficult to figure out how to use
it if it’s in russian. especially since i can’t read anything
about it on the page either. just asking.

thanks,
BabaG

[Baba Goof]

been researching the above referenced app and have a couple of thoughts.

first, it is, apparently, in english. haven’t yet seen it myself, but
others i’ve read posts from in the avid forums say so.

second, in my situation the one function i’d use it for is apparently
not functional, and i’m sure others would like to have that functionality
too. that would be the ability to play omf files for preview purposes.

my case is that there is a vast amount of footage digitized in omf
format that i need to convert to avi for use in premiere. of course, i
don’t want to convert all of it, i just want to convert what i will use.
the way to determine that is to preview the files, find the one i want
at any given time and then do selective conversions. with the proliferation
of nle systems like premiere, fcp, vegas, and edius, i’m sure there are
others who could make use of an app that would provide the ability to
view avid media. obviously, these other nle’s don’t have such a problem
as they capture in avi or mov formats. their media can easily be viewed
on pretty much any system. omf’s, however, are different. it would be a
real service to the larger community if this functionality were to be
realized in this app.

thanks,
BabaG

[Dave Schweitzer]

If you have Adobe After Effects on the same machine you’re running Avid on (i.e. with Avid Codecs installed) drag the OMF files (not the whole folder) into the AE project window.

Bada Boom Bada Bing!

You can see a thumbnail in the AE project window, open and scrub through the video of the OMF and see what you’ve got.

My PB won’t play them in real time, but seeing what they are does the trick.

DS

[Wes Plate]

This requires After Effects Professional.

— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck