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OMF too BIG?!?!
I am trying to export my audio to an OMF with 5 second handles and FCP5 and it is telling me that the file will be larger than 2GB and it’s not a supported file. What do I need to do to fix this issue? I am stumped. Thank you in advance!
Derek Natzke
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You need to break up your project into 20-30 min segments. That limit is the result of the old OMF format.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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No update. OMF, though still widely used is an old standard and will probably never be updated again. Even Avid, its inventor is moving away from it in favor of AAF.
Instead of breaking into 30 minute chunks, an easier way for your sound editor might be breaking it up into several TRACKS each.
Duplicate your timeline several times, depending on how many tracks you have and how long the program is. Have one of the timelines be track 1 & 2 only, then 3 & 4 only, and so forth. You can put more than two tracks per timeline…this is only an example. Depends on edit density and length of program.
Export an OMF file for each timeline.
Then your sound editor only has to paste them together into one Pro Tools session w/o worrying about throwing it out of sync or anything.
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Actually we sound editors want the program broken into chunks not tracks. That way we can start on the first 20 minutes while the rest loads into the system. Breaking into tracks means we have to load everything before we can start.
Always ask your sound people what they want. When you break it into chunks, make sure the chunks are at the correct time code. You do this by duplicating the sequence and deleting before or after a set point. If you copy paste into another sequence you have to locate to the correct timecode before pasting.
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[Michael G] “Actually we sound editors want the program broken into chunks not tracks.”
Actually, it was a sound editor that got me doing it the “tracks” way.
[Michael G] “Always ask your sound people what they want.”
Amen.
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I have one audio editor who wants tracks, and one that wants chunks.
Twice I got them confused and made the wrong files.
Luckily, I had a bad feeling about it and called to confirm before delivery. One said, “nah, we’re on a deadline, just give me what you have”. The other time, the other guy requested I re-do the OMF for him. It would make him more efficient.
Now I have a cheat sheet with the OMF and QT settings each prefers.
debe
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