State of OMF and sharing with Pro Tools

[Prime Mover]

I've been asked to produce a track that will be tracked in a Pro Tools studio, elsewhere. This is a band I've worked with for many years, I've tracked and produced them myself in the past, but they're in another state now, so they're having to track at a third party studio. What is the workflow like for tracking in Pro Tools and transitioning to DP8? I've never used OMF before.

I don't need anything but the basic tracks and takes, in sync. I don't expect there will be any crossfades or edits anywhere, definitely no effects.

[apanacci]

Hey Prime Mover I have found that opening an OMF file works only a few times for me in DP over the last few years. DP, 6, 7 and 8 have been the same. After awhile crash city. I then have to open in another computer with DP on it or I open in Audiodesk and save then open in DP. Good luck with that. Many threads about OMF here.

[Morpheo]

I don't need anything but the basic tracks and takes, in sync. I don't expect there will be any crossfades or edits anywhere, definitely no effects.

takes is a no-go. Edits and fades can be exported, effects, for obvious reasons, can't.

if the session (i.e. sequence) is less than 2GB, you can embed your audio into the OMF file. If it's more, you have to link them separately (nothing difficult here).

The same rules apply when you want to go from PT to DP.

[Lulu_German]

You may export the PT session as audio file from 0:00 to the end of the recorded track and bring them into DP track by track. Pretty crazy.

[dix]

Hey Prime Mover I have found that opening an OMF file works only a few times for me in DP over the last few years. DP, 6, 7 and 8 have been the same. After awhile crash city. I then have to open in another computer with DP on it or I open in Audiodesk and save then open in DP. Good luck with that. Many threads about OMF here.

This is my experience when importing OMFs from Final Cut, but not from PT. In fact that's my fix for importing from FC. I import and subsequently export from PT. Works for me.

I mixed a 10 song project that was tracked in PT recently and just dragged all the audio into the Sequence Window a once. All the tracks appeared as separate tracks on the timeline per their timecode stamp perfectly in sync - all the takes were stacked vertically. It was simple enough to absorb them into one track. It was pretty elegant actually. That's what I'd recommend. I wouldn't bother with an OMF.

[Prime Mover]

Good points. Honestly, for one track, it shouldn't be too hard to just import all the raw recordings, file by file, and put them in their correct tracks/takes. As long as I can get the PT conductor track (whatever it's called), as a MIDI. I know this song will have some tempo changes.