is there a way to view contents of an OMF file?

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is there a way to view contents of an OMF file?

I'm trying to import an OMF file but it seems like it won't import, so I'm hoping to dig out some of its contents.

Can anyone help?

G5 dual 2.3, Mac OS X (10.4.8), Logic 7.2.3, PTLE 7.3.1, 002, RME ff400

Posted on Jun 28, 2007 1:14 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 28, 2007 1:28 PM in response to bdevoid

there isn't anyway that I know about to extract files from an OMF without extracting it into an app...

what is actually going wrong?

is the file from FCP or PT or another?

what version of logic?... etc etc

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Answer 2

Jun 28, 2007 1:53 PM in response to macintonwa

got to agree with mac on this one... i use OMFs alot and the only way you can see the contents is by fully extracting onto audio tracks... sometimes quite a long process with large projects, but really useful for cross platform work.

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bdevoid Author

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Jun 28, 2007 9:47 PM in response to cooltempo

thanks, maybe I just need to be more patient. It's aobut 82 megs.

I'm running 10.4.9. I think the OMF is from FCP, but I don't know. I'm doing a quick sound design job. It's only my third (sound design) job and only the second time I've imported an OMF.

I get the progress bar that says "importing media" or something like that, but it doesn't appear to be making any progress.

I'm going to try to import before bed in case it's just going to take a long time. In the meantime, I'm working off of a quicktime and some music that has since been replaced.

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Answer 4

Jun 28, 2007 10:04 PM in response to bdevoid

82 mb is nothing for an OMF, you probably need to check with the FCP editor and re-export the OMF...

In FCP you have to un-check the cross-fades box and use OMF 2...

at least it was like that, I haven't exploded OMF for a while and I am on PPC, 7.1.1 with .v 5 of FCP and that used to be the way to go....

you should search this topic here to get the up to date info

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bdevoid Author

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Jun 28, 2007 10:15 PM in response to macintonwa

Thank you guys. That is good info! I can check with the video folks. I'll see what else I can find here, but I haven't seen a lot of OMF talk in the past.

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Answer 6

Jun 29, 2007 5:12 AM in response to bdevoid

Make sure the picture editor is not editing mixed sample rates in his/hers tracks.

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Answer 7

Jun 29, 2007 5:18 AM in response to Kjartan Kjartansson

90% of the time ive had errors or the loading process has frozen its been due to the file not being complete... so maybe an incomplete upload, bad media burn or bad export on their side?

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bdevoid Author

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Jun 29, 2007 4:39 PM in response to cooltempo

I think it must have been a user error. I tried again and immediately saw that behind the progress window was a window prompting me to set the destination for the media. I don't know why I didn't see that before. Maybe my window arrangement obscurred it, but at any rate, the OMF imported fine. I think my question brought out some really good background anyway, so thanks to all!

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