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OMF Files
I’m back again, thanks for everyone on this site, you’ve been making things really easy for me. I hope I can get some more help with another step I need to take.
Again, I’m using Final Cut Pro 6. I’ve been asked by the studio I’m sending my film to for audio work, to export and OMF file. It seems the only way I can get it to do an entire OMF of the movie is to make a new sequence and nest all of my scenes into it.
The problem I run into is that when I export an the OMF file, my audio track is now entirely consolidated and the audio guys can’t see any of my edits, or the individual tracks.
So my question is how do I export an OMF file correctly, or at least, in the way that the audio guys need it? Currently I have a bunch of sequences, each sequence makes up a scene of my movie. They need the entire movie with timecode burn, and an OMF of the audio. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Open a new sequence. Copy and paste all the video and audio tracks from each sub sequence into the new timeline. Don’t nest as this creates a problem for the OMF. The new timeline will also be the source of the reference video with burn in.
From the new sequence with all the individual clips you can make the OMF file. If your program is long, then it might not fit into a single OMF file as there is a file size limit on OMFs of 2 gig. If it is too big, then you can make two OMFs from the one sequence by muting some of the tracks. In/ Out markers don’t do anything in an OMF. Don’t forget to add handles. Ask the sound facility what length handles they want.
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Awesome, this has helped but has also made me run into another problem. After copying and pasting the scenes, I’m finding there are now gaps in between random places. I’ve tried re-doing it many times, and going back to the original scenes and there are definitely no gaps in them. This will be a huge problem because once the audio team is finished, they’ll be working with this bizarre gap version of my movie, and when I pop in the audio they did, it won’t be synced cause the real version won’t have all these gaps. There’s too many that I don’t want to mess with the gaps and manually take them out. Not even sure why this is. It also isn’t from me pasting in the wrong area too, they appear mid-scene, all over the place. Just spaces of black. Any idea of why this is?
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Figured everything out, thanks. Now I have to actually make two OMF files it turns out it’s greater than 2GB’s. Anymore insight on that aspect than what you said previously?
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