| Before starting this process, make sure you give at least 30 seconds of bars and a sync frame before the first inital frame of your movie. Put 30 seconds of black at the end of your movie as well. Set your In and Out Points and go to FILE / EXPORT / QUICKTIME (or Quicktime conversion in FCP 4). Video Options should be set to 29.97 fps, no key frames, DV/NTSC, and the BEST quailty. Audio Options should not be checked (considering you'll be going to ProTools for this anyway) and deselect Prepare for Internet Streaming while you're at it. Save it to the Drive. Go back to your project in FCP. Go to FILE / EXPORT / AUDIO to OMF. Make sure the the sample rate is either 44.1 kHZ or 48 kHZ. Under NO circumstance should 32 khz be selected. Deselect "Include Crossfade Transitions." Click OK. Save it to the Drive. This results in a "Your Project Here".omf file. The next step involves downloading a very old, yet still effective, program from DigiDesign called OMFTool. Here's a link to the site. Download the latest version. It's simple and small and won't take up space at all and best of all... IT'S FREE! Launch OMFTool. The program will seem as if nothing opened. Look up top and you'll see the menu options OMFTool, Edit, and Help. Go To OMFTOOL / CONVERT OMF to PROTOOLS / OPEN. Select the "Your Project Here".omf file. Direct the program to where you want the ProTools Session saved to. Make sure ProTools 4 is selected before you click save. Your Project should now be saved as a (very old version) ProTools session file. Once finished, Open the seesion on a ProTools Worstation. (ProTools will ask if you want to update the file, click yes.) Click "Skip all fades and recreate fade files" (This part will take a while to calculate all the overviews since it draws all the waveforms. Be patient... It hasn't crashed.) Import your Quicktime Movie into your ProTools Session by going to MOVIE / IMPORT MOVIE. Since the OMF file used to create the ProTools Session was created from the same source as the Quicktime version of your movie, the audio and video tracks should all be synced. To test this, check to see if the sync pop lines up with the video image. If it doesn't, adjust the video track so that the sync pop and the video are synced by using the hand tool. Once the track is synced up, Select "blocks" instead of "frames" from the video track's menu. Change the size to mini and hide the track by clicking on the video track's name in the far left column (the show/hide list of tracks). Save your session. |
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