OMF not exporting properly in 7.0.1

[Bryan Roberts]

Yep, I tried exporting on the sound designers FCP 7.0.1 from a consolidated project file using a firewire drive with the media (the project was already consolidated onto an external drive for the online). I got the exact same OMF as I had the first time from my own machine, exact same errors…

FCP / AVID EDITOR
Features : Television
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[Bryan Roberts]

Spoke with Keith Hatounian over the phone regarding the issue – his suggestion was to try opening it in Soundtrack Pro, see if the issue translated there and if not, export an AAF from Soundtrack – otherwise he was taking me through the steps of how to lower the version of my project back to FCP 6 to do it there. Soundtrack Pro opened the project fine WITHOUT any issue however when the AAF was imported into ProTools, it crashed the system every time (the AAF’s from Soundtrack aren’t self contained and there’s no options to make them that way so it was a reference file and 6,200 audio clips). However, I tried an AAF from Automatic duck which I set to be self contained and eureka, it opened properly in FCP. Thank god, but I still wish I knew what the issue is, troubling that I don’t know if it’s a bug or just a freak occurrence…

FCP / AVID EDITOR
Features : Television
http://www.DefiningFilms.com

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I have a memory of seeing the exact same issue you report, in FCP 4 or 5 some years ago. At that time I solved it by examining the source clips. I found some to be MP3 clips, which I converted to AIF and re-inserted. I also found some DV clips audio to be 32 kHz, I converted these to 48 kHz. And after that all was well.

I’m not sure this is the same problem that’s re-surfaced in FCP 7.0.1, but just a thought.

One issue in OMFs that we are seeing (was so in FCP 6 as well) is that exported OMFs do not have time code from the original BWFs used in FCP. Especially so when the FCP clips are actually merged clips. This is separate audio in a film (24@25 project).

So we’ve put this down as an unresolved issue, probably affecting only PAL film projects.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India