Why does export to OMF take such a long time on avid ??

[Anders Haavie]

And after 2 hours, the pc crashed.. and NO files on my external harddrive where I had chosen to export the omf to.. Starting to think I do something wrong. I just want the sound to get into an omf file for my protools guys. And i have checked OFF video.. and there are NO video tracks in my timeline

Anders

[Dave Schweitzer]

Usually the only time it is slow for me is when I’ve got boxes checked to convert to WAV audio (or AIFF or something other than what it is) or setting the sample rate (to 48000 or 44100 if it’s not already what it should be – plan ahead). Was there no blue bar progress showing files being written? Usually it very quickly writes the files and I can follow the progress. Most of the time I…
Consolidate and Embed audio into the OMF.
Make sure to set the audio format and sample rate to what the PT guy will be using before digitizing, and not convert during OMF export. Without fail, the export will be at the eleventh hour and noone likes to wait for anything at that point.

Sorry to hear about your experience on the PC.

DS

[Tae]

Try consolidating the media first. That way you are not exporting all 5 minutes of a music track, all hour of a video clip, etc. Just what you are using from it (plus 90 frame handles of course)