OMF Import from Avid losing clips

[tcovem]

Hi folks,

I'm doing audio post on a project and need to import an OMF from the editor into DP. The offline was on an ancient Avid symphony. They gave me an OMF 2.0 that my husband can import into Avid Express Pro just fine, but I get all sorts of weird glitches. When he exports it from Express Pro as an OMF or AAF, it isn't quite as glitchy but I'm still getting:

1. Audio clips that are missing entirely
2. Some clips that show up but are new "chunks" in DP (and not tied to any timecode).

Anyone seen this happen?

TIA,
Alison

[tcovem]

Oh, sorry I forgot to mention -- I'm on DP 4.61 (I'm installing an earlier version on another computer as I type just in case the earlier version works better...) on a G5 Panther.

[bobdaly]

Absolutely. Sadly I have nothing to add but sympathy. But, yes. I'm having the same problem

[tcovem]

Hi bob,

What I ended up doing to fix it was to import the OMF into ProTools on a friend's system (it imports flawlessly into ProTools), and re-exporting from there. The OMF I exported from ProTools then opens fine in DP. ProTools apparently has some way of dealing with the file names, or whatever is really causing the problem, and "translating" for DP. If you have access to ProTools (either LE with digitranslator, or full-blown) then I highly recommend this method.

Good luck!

[bobdaly]

I went to friends house to try the "re-export via Protools" option. He needs to have Digitranslator (and doesn't).
I'm told SONAR might actually be able to open OMF's. Anybody use SONAR and know if it's got the chops? Or know of any other work around? Anyone else have any ideas why the soundbites don't appear? They ARE in the OMF.

[tcovem]

You might consider calling a studio (they all have ProTools these days) and seeing if you can pay them for an hour of time to bring in your OMF file and have them reexport it for you. I don't know about SONAR.