OMF Volume Export

[Shane Ross]

That is right. If you want your levels and keyframes to be exported properly, then you will need to get Automatic Duck Pro Export. I have it and it works great.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Fred]

I’ve been using Soundtrack Pro to Normalize some of the quiet parts of my clips. While still in FCP, I send my clips from the FCP timeline to Soundtrack Pro, Normalize them, then save the Soundtrack Pro project to include the source audio, and the changes are reflected in my clip from my original FCP timeline. Will my new normalized clip be congruent in the OMF file I want to export? Or will the OMF file I will export only see the original quiet audio. I will be using Automatic Duck. Does this make sense?

[Michael Gissing]

Not sure about the normalised clips. I suspect they will be exported via an OMF instead of the original. That may mean you don’t have handles on those clips. It is important to check. Perhaps a small test OMF would be wise.

Also ask the sound post facility if they want levels. I certainly don’t as it would take longer to undo the hokey mixes that I hear in pic edits. Also broadcast mixes have to split mix elements into Music, Dialog and FX stems.

[Fred]

Thanks for the response. another Question:

When someone gives you audio to sweeten and mix, even if it isn’t mixed shouldn’t all the dialog tracks be at the same volume level? My problem is the audio levels I’m getting are all over the place. i need to normalize some of my audio, just to hear it for screenings. Wouldn’t a sound post facility want levels relatively the same. I know they will say they want only the original files, but isn’t the audio guy just going to normalize the clip anyway. I’m trying to save as much time and money on his end as i can. Our pic edits mixes can get pretty close to good.

[David Roth weiss]

[FooKai] “When someone gives you audio to sweeten and mix, even if it isn’t mixed shouldn’t all the dialog tracks be at the same volume level? My problem is the audio levels I’m getting are all over the place. i need to normalize some of my audio, just to hear it for screenings. Wouldn’t a sound post facility want levels relatively the same.”

This is precisely why Automatic Duck is used. Yes, it cost a pretty penny, but its worth the money unless you’d rather pay someone to do work you’ve already done.

DRW

[Fred]

Thanks everyone oh and I’ve been using Soundtrack Pro to Normalize some of the quiet parts of my clips, while still in FCP. I send my clips from the FCP timeline to Soundtrack Pro, Normalize them (non destructively) , then save the Soundtrack Pro project to include the source audio, and the clip changes are automatically reflected in my original FCP timeline. Now I assume the new audio level is linked to the Soundtrack Pro file.

Question: Will my new Soundtrack Pro (non-destructive) normalized clip be congruent in the OMF file I want to export from FCP, or will the OMF file only have the original quiet source non audio?

Thanks

[John Pale]

it will only have the original volume. The OMF file has no idea what you did in Soundtrack. OMF is an Avid file format and does not have any hooks into Soundtrack Pro. In fact no levels or effects of any kind carry across.

If you did destructive editing, it would be ‘built into’ the file and would be copied into the OMF.