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how to export aaf with original clipnames
Hi, I’ve recently edited an episode for a show. Upon importing my aaf, the guys over at the audiopost facility noticed something unsetteling: the clipnames of the audiofiles were different from the clipnames of all the audiorushes that were recorded on set on harddisk. Turned out that my assistent had used the Autosync function to merge audio and video together. That created sublips with different names. Now my question is: how do you export an AAF and tell the program to use the original audiofile names from which these subclips were born? Is there a way out of this?
Thanks in advance!StvN
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Well, it’s pretty common to handle the naming as you did, where the renamed Sync Clip becomes the region name in the DAW.
If they absolutely positively need the names of the filenames as designated on set, you might achieve that by grabbing all your original audio imports into a new bin, add an audio-only copy of your final sequence, select the sequence and the original audio imports and choose to Relink-To-Selected.
Lots of sound recorders will give certain filenames on set that are not reflected on the clipname in the Avid, since that is usually derived from the metadata in the audio file (that’s the beauty of having metadata rather than just filenams). If they need to destroy this feature, you could try to locate the actual filename (somewhere in one of the bin columns) and copy those entries into the Clip Name column.
All of this will ruin the original (more common and logical) project organization, so I would strongly recommend doing this on a copy of your project, leaving the original project intact.
The true cause of the matter is that ProTools will not read many (if any) metadata that is contained in the Avid and the AAF. Ideally, source filenames, shooting dates, notes, etc should all travel into PT, but this somehow has never been made possible.
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Awsome! Many thanks, Job. This comment was a lifesaver. Avid support Belgium didn’t even know the answer to that one. Anyhow, I made a new bin, put all the audiofiles from all shooting days in it, added a copy of the episode, selected everything and chose the command “relink to selected”. Worked like a charm, now the audioclips in the timeline have the same name as the audio filenames we imported. I can make a new AAF. The guys on their NUENDO (not protools) system are going to be so relieved!
Thanks again!StvN
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