OMF workflow for nested sequences. Has anyone found an automated way?

[Sean Scarfo]

Hey Everyone,

looks like a ‘found’ a way to make it work.

While sending to audition directly ‘Doesn’t work’ as for some reason it only see’s the top most audio level, if I manually export a FCP XML and then import it into audition, it DOES see all the audio components. Once I save the Audition session I can then export OMF.

Also, from what a friend of mine has tested is exporting the FCP XML and sending into Davanci and then exporting AAF from there.

Hope this helps someone!

[David Harris]

I’ve been dealing with this problem on a 30 minute long project with tons of multi-cam, 6-channel audio nested sequences. I was surprised to find that my OMF’s opened perfectly in Protools if I selected the “encapsulate audio” option with short handles (to keep the OMF file size sub 2GB). Based on this, my suggested work around would be – use timecode to divvy up your sequences into sections that fit below the 2GB limit – and then stitch them back together in Protools.

Far from ideal, but faster than conforming un-nested footage back to the nested edits.

[Garnet Campbell]

Hey this is great news, I’m going to give it a shot. I have a feature with 113 nested sequences.

[Romina Rey]

Hi Shane,

Just started working on Premiere and encountered this problem when trying to export for Sound Mixer.
Is there an alternative method to achieve multi-cam editing with three different audio tracks other than nesting?

Don’t want to start off using bad habits 😉

Thanks!
Romina

[Shane Ross]

Make multiclips. I’m not entirely sure how Premiere does it, but in Avid you group all of your audio with all of your video, and you have a multiclip with one video track, that you can switch angles, and then multiple audio tracks…from 2-whatever. I work with generally 6-10 tracks of audio. And then put ALL audio tracks on the timeline.

If you synch up the groups via a separate timeline…then don’t put that in the SOURCE window…open it up and then copy and paste the sections you want.

Shane
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[Jessica Lawheed]

OH MY GAWD thank you for this. You have saved me SO much time.