OMF files

[Troy Murison]

None that I know of. Best to consult your audio person, but what I have done in the past is to duplicate your final sequence and then disable all but one audio track in your sequence, export that as uncompressed .wav or .aif or whatever they want, then disable that track, enable the next and export and so on. Then they can import each into their audio app and they’ll all line-up. It’s tedious on your end and theirs. And if you want handles, you have to manually extend each clip, then your audio person will have to be aware that you did that as well as this might just seem to jumble things up for them if they aren’t aware that’s what you did (that’s why I dupe the sequence so I don’t muck up my original). And if you do add handles, make them consistent for the audio person’s sake. Good idea too to export a file with all tracks enabled from your rough mix for them to have as a reference. And watch that you don’t have fades or effects on your clips that you export as stems (unless your audio person wants them there for some reason) cause they won’t be able to undo those choices obviously.

Please submit a feature request to Adobe for OMFI 2 audio export (with or without media embedded, with options for how to handle the embedded media if so chosen (ie: sample rate, bit depth, file type, handles, etc.)).

BTW, it seems there is no support in the public beta of CS3 for OMF or even automated audio-stem export (basically what’s described above but a ‘one-step’ or automated process) so please ask for it if it’s important to you! Maybe CS3 will be easier for 3rd party developers to work with on this front and folks like Wes can bring back tools like the Automatic Duck utility. I sure hope so, it doesn’t appear to be a priority for Adobe.

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Tvchimp]

Hi Troy,
Thanks for your response. Its a good workround, but not very pro.
I have requested this feature for the last 18 months and adobe just ignore it. Looks like Ill just switch to FCP.
Many thamks
Danny

[Baz Leffler]

Danny… if you google the subject you get a link to an official Adobe web page…

https://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/premiere/

“Pro Export PPro
With Pro Export PPro, it is possible to send audio from your Premiere Pro sequence out to OMF for collaboration with Digital Audio Workstations like Pro Tools. Pro Export PPro exports your sequence with your audio media embedded into the OMF file, and even includes your clips’ volume information

[Troy Murison]

Yes, you can find links to and past posts about Automatic Duck’s OMF plug-in for PPro, but Wes stopped selling it when PPro 2.0 was released. I tried it and it worked great with 1.5 for me, then Wes stopped selling it. I never tried it with 2.0 (not sure that’s possible). There’s a Automatic Duck forum here at the Cow, you might try asking there.

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA