[Martin Williams-peck]

The first programme we did from the series, we had to split the sequence into 2 OMF’s of nearly 2 gig each, so there is a lot of audio going into the OMF (only 8 tracks in the sequence).

All media except for music (which we want the whole file anyway in the OMF), should have reel numbers (but I will check this with the assistants).

Looks like its going to have to be a media manage with video, or the duck!

Its odd we have created loads of OMF’s before, and had no reported problems,

Thanks again for your help

[Martin Williams-peck]

Thanks for the reply,

Unfortunately all the media (nearly 1000 hours!) from a variety of formats including tape & tapeless, has already been ingested.

We are trying to make a OMF, but the audio guys are saying that they are getting the audio from the whole clip and not just the 4sec handles we are specifying.

So I had the idea of media managing the sequence, then creating the OMF from that. The reason I didn’t want to media manage the video, was there will be a very tight turnaround from picture lock to OMF delivery, and I’m not sure there will be time to copy all the un-needed video (its a 59min show).

So back to the drawing board, unless anyone has any other ideas?

[Martin Williams-peck]

I have also had this problem recently, but on a SD ProRes sequence, this was on a long running weekly show and was the first time this had happened. My theory (although untested due to time constrains) was that it had something to do with still .tiff files in the project which we normally don’t use. In the end the simplest and quickest workaround was to export a self contained quicktime and then ‘Edit to Tape’ this.

I would be very interested if anyone has any other theories.

Martin

[Martin Williams-peck]

Hi,

Have you tried changing just the timeline format to 8-bit uncompressed?

I have had problems when using a simple resize on ProRes material in a ProRes timeline, gives the green preview render bar, but put the same ProRes material with resize in a 8-bit timeline and there is no render bar.