Pro Tools 10 to AVID

[MusoPro]

Hi Guys,
Been a while, I'm working on an animated feature film. We're laying in sound effects and dialog editing. The video editor actually wants me to send him back the separate tracks because things are constantly changing. Thinking either OMF's or AAF. But I've been using Clip Gain heavily and read posts about sync issues after consolidating the tracks I know I can convert to Volume Automation but has anyone had issues with OMF exports???

I'm offsite from their facility so if you have any advice how to to this the best way please fill me in.

Thanks
Mitch

[mfranken]

Originally Posted by MusoPro

I'm offsite from their facility so if you have any advice how to to this the best way please fill me in.

I'd recommend bouncing to disc as a mix or as separate stems (dial - one WAV for each character and probably a stereo bounce for fx). This way you can name the stems (WAVs) with a version and date that matches your session name. This way when the editor compiles a sequence containing sections from different stems you know which session to grab material from to get your original edits, work tracks etc. This is how we dealt with the dial edit on Happy Feet 2 as the dial sessions contained all the original records. We had a separate sessions for each scene.

I would have thought sending original PT tracks would get too wide for the picture editor to deal with.

Good luck,

Mark

[MusoPro]

Hey Mark,
Thanks, but I'm just thinking that's a lot of downtime to start bouncing?

Mitch

[mfranken]

Originally Posted by MusoPro

Thanks, but I'm just thinking that's a lot of downtime to start bouncing?

Well yeah we had assistants to take care of deliveries to editorial. You could bus your edit tracks to record tracks and do it in the one pass. I just don't see how a picture editor could handle the amount of raw tracks you'd have in PT. I'm also not sure what happens these days with edits/fades that occur between frames when they go to MC.

The other thing is what happens when you get picture version 2 with your material in it. What happens then? Do you just start again or do you recon your old session in case the pic editor dropped elements that you want. If you use stems you can use the edit data of the actual stems to auto recon your session to match using something like EdiLoad.

Mark

[MusoPro]

Hey Mark,
I know exactly who you are...
Your services have saved my butt many a time.
In any case that's exactly what I would do with edit changes.
The thing is I've worked on feature films but with animation we are still recording dialog and the video/animators guys are changing the animatics every freakin day. They have an in house sound editor so they've outsourced the rest to us. He's actually editing directly on the AVID and not in PT, thus the mess.

Thanks again!!!

Mitch