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Getting OMF into Avid
I’ve got a few animations created in After Effects and exported to OMF files. There is no audio involved. I already know you can’t “import” OMF files directly into Avid like you can with a MOV file. How specifically do I get these OMF files into my Avid Media Composer to edit the video within a project/bin?
Our Avids’ media is stored on a series of lanshare drives. I’m pretty sure the first step is for me to just open up the lanshare drives, open up one of the OMFI MediaFiles folders, open up one of the various subfolders within that OMFI MediaFiles folder, and then just drag and drop my OMFI file into that folder.
But then what exactly do I do to easily locate and then edit that media with my Avid project. I’m hoping you don’t say to use the media Tool to scan the entire lanshare for orphan files, because that seems like a bunch of work to be repeating several times a day. If I’m correct about dropping the OMF file into one of the drives folders, what next?
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Not a LANshare user here, but can you create a vrtual directory on it, drop the OMFs in there and use Media Tool to probe just that directory?
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The subdirectory idea sounds like a good way to make it easier to find but that seems like it will really fragment my directory structure if I do this process over and over again several times a day. And I can’t just clean up these straggler folders if I want to keep the media long term.
So anyway, even if it’s in a subdirectory or elsewhere, the process is still dropping the file on a drive and then using the media tool to find it and then drag that found file from the media tool to a bin? Is that the process? Seems like a lot more steps and a lot more time (especially with the Media Tool being involved) for something that will be done several times every day. I wanted to save disc space on my saved renders (before Avid) but it’s still seems a whole lot easier to keep doing what I’m currently doing which is to simply import Quicktimes rendered in the huge Animation codec.
(P.S. I know QT in H.264 codec would be great for small rendered file sizes and the ability to simply import rather than all that process above but the washed out H.264 bug in quicktime ruins it)
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You’ll have to use the media tool if you go the omf route. Just open it, select the drive you dropped file into, choose to show only Master Clips and have a custom sift set up to sort by date, most recent at the top. Your newest additions should be there. Ought to be quick and simple. That said, I haven’t done this (especially with a LanShare), but I’m pretty sure it will work. I render to Quicktimes so I have a backup.
If you decide to continue with the Quicktime route, render to an Avid codec. The files are typically a lot smaller than Animation and they’ll fast import your Avid (make sure you render to 601 color and in the full frame size for your project).
Michael
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What do you mean render to the Avid codec? I don’t see any codec that says Avid under the Quicktime settings (or anywhere else either). I’m using CS3. Is that only CS4?
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