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How to exclude (or mixdown) audiotracks during edit and include them at the end for OMF export?
Hi,
For a project we’re working on, we will end up with 3 videotracks and about 10 audiotracks in post, which are recorded separately (not in cam).
Two of them will be a stereo mix, the eight others are “iso” tracks.
During the edit, we would like to work with just the stereo tracks, because of the hassle of working with 10 audiotracks. Or mixing down the eight iso tracks to two.When we’re done and have to export an OMF for sound, we need to include the separated iso tracks for mixing.
What is the best way to do this? Nesting doesn’t seem to work here, but maybe I’ not doing it right.
Thanks for your time!
Best,
Willem -
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Seems to me that nesting should work OK. Should be as simple as selecting the clips you want to nest together, and nesting them. How are you trying this?
Jerry
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You’ll have to unnest before you export the OMF. OMFs can’t read into nests. So if you edit this way, chop up the audio, you’ll have to unnest each edit point. That will take a lot of time.
Audio mixing starts with the picture editor. Best to buck up and work with all the audio stems. Something I do all the time.
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Some audio systems like Fairlight can replace a stereo wav with the polywav stems after you OMF. Critical to this working is that identical timecode was recorded on the original polywavs and the stereo mixdown and that file names of the audio are unchanged. Not sure of other systems can do this but talk to the sound post people.
Like Shane says, it is a nuisance but part of the job to deal with and deliver audio assets.
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