OMF

sgaudet wrote:
Hello again,here is my problem i received an omf from my client for experimenting with logic could not open in logic i have tryed everything,then i tryed in Protool the sequence open immediatly
i saved an reexport in omf from Protool .Now it takes more then 30 minutes to open the sequence
in logic and sometime there is no fades at all and some time the first minutes of the show is rendered and the rest is there, i can see all the audio clip but they are not playing.I also tried with the vidéo supplied with the job did not work i downgrade to QT 7.6.2 and now i am waiting for logic to figure it out the séquence.
This sequence is 21 mins long by 10 tracks deep this is a very very small job for Protool but it look like this is impossible for logic.I need help please a.s.a.p
Thanks

Just finish the job in ProTools, since it opens there.

OMF is one of the worst inter-software exchange formats out there.

Cheers

Could you not consolidate your audio PT tracks and export them? They'll load into Logic just fine.

I agree with noeqplease: I've wasted hours trying to get OMF to work in Logic and it rarely does.

+"I need help please a.s.a.p."+

Very commendable that you want to use Logic, but honestly it sounds as if you already have your answer now; you will have to abandon PT gracefully, & that means spending a small amount of extra time in there.

If you know anyone that has either, try opening and resaving the OMF in Nuendo or Cubase. (full version of Cubase only).

Since version 4 their implementation seems reasonably solid.

pancenter-

OMFs imported from an avid never work on my system and have not worked since Logic 8 - Logic 7 was fine with those most of the time. But OMFs imported from Final Cut Pro always work on my system, so now I always ask for FCP OMFs if available...

I think you've hit on the solution that I ended up with, which was pinching my nose and purchasing Pro Tools 8. This allows me to consolidate and export full audio files into Logic, and work just fine from there. I have the worst Pro Tools rig possible- M-Powered with this horrid M-Audio interface I bought used for $50. I can't record with it or monitor with it, although I don't know why I can't monitor with it- it does have a 1/8" stereo out. Anyway...

You might have to deal with the devil, but not more than necessary, is what I try to do. Good luck, L

Larry Mal wrote:
I think you've hit on the solution that I ended up with, which was pinching my nose and purchasing Pro Tools 8.

Does the OMF Export/Import come with version 8 or is it still extra?

pancenter-

I'll check- I offhand want to say it's extra, but I'll get back to you.

I think I'll take that route as well, I'm just fed up with this OMF-incompatibility-nonsense and lost two hours today trying to import AAFs from an Avid....arrrggghhhhhh

Sorry- Pro Tools 8 is hanging up on the find Waves plug ins verification, and doesn't allow me to select anything. I mean I literally can't click on anything, and have to do a hard shutdown of my computer to get rid of it- force quit doesn't get it either. With other apps I can skip past it and do some work.

Not like it would matter, for some reason I can't make any of my apps find the Waves folder, even though I think I know where it is. I trashed the Waves preferences, reset permissions- nothing.

In short, no Pro Tools for me. It's always the most vulnerable app anyway- a real wilting lily in the software world. My contempt for Pro Tools grows! I didn't know that was possible.

Larry Mal wrote:
Sorry- Pro Tools 8 is hanging up on the find Waves plug ins verification, and doesn't allow me to select anything.
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In short, no Pro Tools for me. It's always the most vulnerable app anyway- a real wilting lily in the software world. My contempt for Pro Tools grows! I didn't know that was possible.

Thanks for taking a look, careful don't hose your system.

"a real wilting lily in the software field"
And yet it still hangs on, I hear people praising version 8 as if it were a software messiah. if I remember correctly, OMF export and import is an add-on package and it used to cost $500 USD.

pancenter-

Digidesign is the Pro Tools killer. It's good software, intentionally handicapped by their makers, incredibly expensive, irritatingly priced (not unlike what Microsoft did with Vista), and not as good of value for money as virtually any of their competitors.

For irritating pricing, see this discussion, in which a service included for free with most of the other major competitors of Pro Tools offer some sort of support for nothing more than cost of purchase.

And let's not forget the uninspiring hardware you have to use in order to work with Pro Tools at the lower end, or the staggering expense of the HD rigs- which are good rigs, but... Digidesign doesn't really want to serve the lower end of the market, but if they have to, then they'll be sure to wring out as much money as they can while they're at it. See:

1) The puny (and artificial) track counts- unless one pays for more.
2) Paying to export Mp3.
3) This OMF exchange nonsense.
4) Poor support for video, unless one buys the expanded packages.

I really could go on. I think someone showed a link demonstrating Digidesign's stock prices, and the poor performance it has had over the last several years- about what you would expect. If anyone cared to display a link to that, it would be great.

How does this apply to the original poster? Get in, and get out, when working with Pro Tools as fast as possible.