Importing OMF into FCP [??]

Post by **steve hyde** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:58 pm

...We want to export the audio track from a short film so that we can work it in Pro Tools. What is the best method for doing this? The problem that we have discovered is FCP will not allow importing OMF. FCP exports OMF, but does not import....What is up with that?

Steve

Post by **sunrise** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:36 pm

To my knowledge you'll need expensive 3rd party software to do this.

Do you have the possibility to work around this using an exported version of your film or do you need to be able to do both audio and video editing at the same time?

michael

Post by **mattias** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:12 pm

why do you need it? i thought you said you wanted to export to omf in order to work in protools, which will work fine (some problems with levels and transitions unfortunately though), and then you can bounce an aiff to bring back.

/matt

Post by **steve hyde** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:09 pm

..Thanks. We are going to bounce back with the .aif.... We are using PRo Tools 7.1 and it has a video track.. I'm fascinated by the program! You can edit in millisecond increments.. Amazing! The reason I wanted to bring back the OMF is to keep the sound elements un-nested, but I think we can work around having them nested...all in all starting to feel like cinema though. Who was it who said sound is two thirds of the experience?...Kurosawa?

The sound mix is the fun part to be sure..

Steve

Post by **Mike P** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:59 pm

for reference, the FCP <> Avid tool is Automatic Duck: http://www.automaticduck.com/products/

Post by **MusicConductor** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:01 pm

[quote="steve hyde"]I'm fascinated by the program! You can edit in millisecond increments.. Amazing![/quote]

You can do even better than that... most audio NLEs can edit down to single sample increments... how's that for precise! My editor of choice for producing music, as well as mixing audio to picture, is the relatively inexpensive and very powerful Adobe Audition.

Post by **mattias** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:09 pm

you can edit sound in fcp in 1/1000s increments as well. hold down shift and scrub in the viewer.

/matt

Post by **steve hyde** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:08 am

...good things to know. Thanks. Learning lots about sound mixing this week.

Steve

Post by **steve hyde** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:51 pm

...I have another FCP question and don't want to litter the board with all of my NLE questions so hopefully it will get picked up in this one.

I made one of my sequences "widescreen" using the video filters and now I can't turn it back to normal. How do you turn off the widescreen effect in FCP?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

Post by **steve hyde** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:48 am

steve hyde wrote:...I have another FCP question and don't want to litter the board with all of my NLE questions so hopefully it will get picked up in this one.

I made one of my sequences "widescreen" using the video filters and now I can't turn it back to normal. How do you turn off the widescreen effect in FCP?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

... I figured it out once I found the check box in the filters tab on the viewer..
:oops:

Steve

Post by **Will2** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:54 am

Have you considered working in anamorphic in FCP? Carrying it through all the way to the DVD burning gives you great picture quality on a 16:9 TV.

Post by **steve hyde** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:07 am

Will2 wrote:Have you considered working in anamorphic in FCP? Carrying it through all the way to the DVD burning gives you great picture quality on a 16:9 TV.

not for this program, I haven't. Maybe I will try that on a subsequent cut, but the festival at hand is getting 1.66

Steve

Post by **mattias** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:35 pm

a side note, since this is what i thought you were asking and it's something i'm sure you'll run into: if you have a 16:9 sequence and drop 4:3 material on it, it will get black sides, then if you uncheck the box the footage gets squeezed, keeping the sides. the solution is to select all clips, do edit->remove attributes, selecting distort, and clicking ok. voila.

/matt