OMF Export

[Sylvain94]

What about a OMF Export function, for me it will be very usefull when you have to export your project to another workstation or to a video editing station

[NICK LOWE]

excellente idee

[davy lamb]

this gets my vote too.

[ChrisDomaille]

Yep Like it or not, it is still the most universal file exchange system.
Also it gives another layer of compatability with the "Industry Standard" which I believe does not accept AES 31!!
I'm pretty sure AAF's not far off. this should be the "new OMF"

Chris

[Adrian]

If a topic is needing votes then here's mine. If PMX can hook up to Unity and read omfs then it has got to be able to put them back. I've just finished a huge awards show 10 versions all different lengths and based on a generic full length version which was two hours long. This version had to be digitised back in to the Avids to be cut down. Oh for omf export.

[tim lofts]

A big definite yes from me too. I'ts caused me a couple of problems, nearly lost a job recently because of the lack of omf export.

[avenueaudio]

Bumping this up again. This is a huge MUST. Making opentl then converting them to OMF is a joke. AAF is not far off but it is still in the distance. Please make this a priority.

Thanks,
Cory Coken
Avenue Audio
www.avenueaudio.com

[Daniel Bélanger]

I agree this is a must
Daniel

[Julian Gough]

Bumping this up again. This is a huge MUST. Making opentl then converting them to OMF is a joke. AAF is not far off but it is still in the distance. Please make this a priority.

Now that AAF is available, has anyone used it yet, and if so what are their thoughts?

Julian

[tim lofts]

I've just discovered we lost a whole campaign of commercials and trailers over the last month purely because of the lack of OMF export. One of my long standing clients has been using another studio on a project that requires daily transfer of material ,because the video house doing the visuals kept complaining I couldn't give them an OMF to re-import audio to their Avids.

There is a guy in the UK, John Emmas at Creative Post in Manchester, whoI understand is a bit of an OMF guru. We thought we might give him a try to write something for us, but does anyone else have experience here? If nothing else, Merging should be addressing this as a matter of prority. I am really hacked off at the moment!

[Dominique Brulhart]

Hi all,

Since 10 years that we're fighting with OMF we haven't seen two similar OMF implementations on any DAW, especially on the audio side. This is mostly why we've decided not to implement the OMF export... not to have to basically code one version for each target DAW... (as we have internally for the import).

This is also why we've concentrated our efforts on direct import/export of many (if not all) other formats to accommodate all standards we could (Akai, CMX, AES31, OpenTL, Protools, Sonic).

At the same time we've been keeping a close eye on AAF since its beginning waiting for it to be defined/speced enough and to have some other players compatible with each others. This is now seems to be the case and Pyramix 4.3 does actually implement AAF (import and export)... and it works OK with Protools, Sadie... and some Avid stations.

This said we're now in a situation where, now that the whole industry is moving to AAF, we may reach a point where nobody updates its OMF code and where we could finally have it stable and crystallized. This may become the OMF gold era

Be sure that we’ve carefully read this thread and understood your wishes. Without any promise we may consider to finally make an OMF export… but to be honest it will certainly require some time during which AAF will be perfectly operational.

Thanks for your patience and understanding

Best regards,

Dominique