Voice weirdness: tracks play wrong voice - any suggestions?

[stevewright]

I HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM GETTING OMF FILES FROM DIGITAL PERFORMER USERS. MINE WENT AWAY WITH A REBOOT......DOES ANYONE FEEL LIKE THE THE SONICS CHANGE AFTER COMING OUT OF OMF. I HAVE FELT THAT THE HI END IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. MAYBE I'M CRZY.

[citysoundman]

Well guys, this may go down as an unsolved mystery. For me, this has also been a problem isolated to a single session, although the same problem kept rearing it's ugly head after rebuilding the tracks in new sessions. So it's not session related, but file related. My gut feeling is it must be some corrupt file, and all the files came from OMF's (Avid MC exports, brought in with Digitranslator). We did multiple OMFs because it was a long piece (77 min.). There were six OMFs. Possibly there was a problem with some files at the Avid level, or the OMFs didn't work 100% (Heavens No!). [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[Daniel_Dettwiler]

I also had similar problems from time to time (without OMF). In every case I could solve it with either a parameter zap, desktob rebuild, and /or nortan disk doctor.

daniel

[Richard Fairbanks]

Bob, was your omf audio playing from the original omf files (refer to original audio), or had you chosen to copy the audio into standard audio files?

I haven't seen your problem, but these days I always import omf tracks into a session and choose to copy the audio files.

[citysoundman]

Daniel_Dettwiler - I did try Norton, which didn't help. But I didn't rebuild the desktop. Good thought. When you say "parameter zap" do you mean zapping the P-RAM?

Richard - What's the benefit of using the "copy audio" choice during OMF import?

When I did my import, it was from embedded OMF's. I'm pretty sure I chose "refer to audio" rather than "copy", but doesn't the audio get rewritten when coming from embedded OMF's even with the "refer to audio"? I'm guessing this is the case because the ProTools import ends up with many smaller individual audio files, rather than the one "consolidated" file that gets created on the Avid end when choosing "embedded export".

Honestly, I'm not sure what happens during this OMF import process, because these smaller individual audio files seem to get rewritten really quickly from the embedded file. And since the embedded file is not in the ProTools region list, it's not "referred to" after the import is complete.

[citysoundman]

Richard Fairbanks - I'm hoping to hear your reply!

[Daniel_Dettwiler]

When you say "parameter zap" do you mean zapping the P-RAM?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">ups, yes, P-ram zap I wanted to say
daniel

[Philthy]

I believe that ProTools refers to the original OMF for audio in some cases- you can determine that quickly by checking out the file sizes in Finder.