Adam Bernardi
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Are you in L.A.?
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Katie,
We have a similar situation here, but we’re on mostly Meridien Avids, one generation newer than your PPC Avids. Michael is right, you can tell your newer Avid to capture OMF, but I don’t remember what resolutions your version Avid uses. I believe the newer Avids will like any of the Meridien resolutions, i.e. 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, 10:1, 20:1, 2:1s, 4:1s, 15:1s, 4:1m and 10:1m. If your version is using those AVR’s you might be alright. But if your using the older AVR’s, what were they?…AVR77, 70, etc. That probably won’t work.
Also, keep in mind, if you do anything to your clips or sequences in the new Avid that the old one doesn’t understand, then you’ll have problems. For instance, the new Avids can handle 24bit sound files, the old ones only 16bit. So if you import something at 24bit in the new Avid, you won’t even be able to open the bin in the old Avid, and you also risk some serious file corruption to boot. We’ve had a lot of that. In fact, since most of our Avid’s are Meridien’s, we have been using our newer Avid chiefly to capture and output. It’s a waste, I know, but until we upgrade that’s the way it is.
Hope this helps