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Reattaching audio
Hello,
We have someone who has volunteered to do some audio sweetening with pro tools, and has taken an export of the project audio as a single aiff clip. I’m worried that when we get back an aiff file, it’s going to be stuck as one big audio track in the timeline, and we will have a hard time of it to make editing changes since we aren’t necessarily at picture lock yet. Is there a way to split up and attach pieces of the audio to the regular clips on the timeline so they can be manipulated and stretched in sync with each other? Is exporting and importing an aiff file even reliable to begin with for matching the original sound, or will there be “slippage” that will make the dialog look dubbed?
Thanks much!
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3 Replies
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You should have exported audio as OMF-file to ProTools. Then your audio editor could have worked with separate audiofiles instead of one big block and it would have been possible to get those processed audiofiles back as single clips, not as a group.
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Firstly, taking an aif file means the audio facility will not be able to properly unpick butted edits and access handles. Not much use.
Even if you export an OMF, the return audio will need to be an aif file of a mix. You can’t easily reimport an omfi and even if you use Automatic Duck to do this, the levels, EQ, sub frame edits and audio processing will not track, so the “sweetening” will not work. (I hate the term sweetening, btw. Imagine a picture editor being called a cutter or slasher. We don’t sweeten anything, we transform rubbish into art.)
So the return mix will be a single aif or wav file. This is good if you don’t do sound post until after lock off. It is a waste of time for both to do it otherwise.
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You put a 1 frame audio & picture ‘pop’ at the head & tail of your show, & when your mixer gives you the mixdown tracks back, you simply line the audio pops back up to the picture pops. The head pop is typically 2 seconds before the first frame of video (coinciding with the last frame of your countdown), & the tail pop is usually 5 seconds after the last frame.
Arnie
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