Premiere cs3 to avid aaf

[Tyler Smith]

i’d also be interested to know the answer, i need to provide audio to a post house for the sound mix and they use pro tools…why does premiere suck so much? this program isn’t suited for filmmaking…its absolute shit and doesn’t deserve to be on the market.

[Tim Kolb]

[tyler smith] “why does premiere suck so much? this program isn’t suited for filmmaking…its absolute shit and doesn’t deserve to be on the market.”

Interesting quote from someone who (from your postings) doesn’t understand levels…proclaiming something useless because you have trouble for your particular situation? Seems myopic to me.

I do 2K work in PPro…and HD…not much problem. Long timelines have been a challenge over the years as the RAM that is needed runs up against WXP’s 2.5 GB limit…

OMF and AAF export are certainly important for inter-connecting with the Avids and ProTools of the world, but Adobe makes products in the audio workstation category as well and the interoperability is good.

If what you want is an Avid (and Avid is a superior choice for certain workflows) I think that is what you should buy…on the other hand I recently had a client come in with a spot that needed to be updated and remarked when I did some particular thing “I thought an Avid couldn’t do that?!”…I simply said “This isn’t an Avid.”

Keep in mind there is a variety professional situations and preferences out here and we all use different tools, and many of us have opinions about various tools that may be mistaken or at least outdated. Use what you feel comfortable using. if Premiere Pro isn’t for you, that isn’t a crime.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects

[Dylan Roodt]

interesting.

So any ideas how to get aafs off a complex timeline?
How do i change any export settings for the aafs?
or any edl settings, at all.

[Tim Kolb]

I hesitate to ask…how “complex”?

What makes it through an AAF export and what doesn’t is outlined in the docs of course…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects

[Dylan Roodt]

Hi

3 HD tiff video layers. but the problem is, the audio is from multiple imported premiere projects, about 30 layers of stereo sfx(some from avi movies, some from sfx cd’s) some of the avi sounds have related video on the video layer, some dont. and some are mono.

When I export an aaf embedded, some of the stereo tracks are usable but the mono and avi stuff is junk, and crashes any machine i load it onto.

I’ve tried cutting and pasting the audio only into a new project and making sure all the audio was available, but i cant beat the mono stereo thing, and I dont know where any of the settings are to mono or stereo all the sound on the tracks.

(i’m picking this job up after some others have been tinkering with it, and have gotten lost)

any help will be appreciated.

[Tim Kolb]

With that many mixed formats, I’d check to see if the video track can go out AAF (not embedding the audio)…if you can do that, I’d set up a work area bar that includes the entire active area, and successively export each audio track (dry-no effects if that’s what you are trying to send) from that range so they can all be imported, aligned and stacked to recreate the sound composition.

AAF, like OMF and MXF are all “open” formats, which unfortunately means every manufacturer is open to use or not use any parts of it they want to…and they all do things a little differently.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects