OMF expand

[JPorter]

My session began from an OMF, referencing audio within the OMF (so as to save disk space) and continues to reference audio within the OMF.

However, I now want to use elastic audio, but the session will not allow me to select rhythmic/polyphonic since it considers the OMF files as read only.

Question, how do I change the session so that it makes copies of individual files contained with OMF (effectively expands OMF) and references them from now on?

thanks,

[Craig F]

I'm going to assume your on 10
Export Selected Tracks to new session, select force media to session format
this should copy the media into a new session for the track(s) that have the audio that you want to use EA on
I'd test this sub session then import the sub session matching tracks and replacing media
you should be good to go

[JPorter]

Craig,

Thanks for response - you're right, it's PT 10.3.2 (Native) - sorry, I should have stated.

I think what you suggest will work, but I'm really curious to know if there's an alternative.

Specifically, I'm able to expand the OMF by simply opening directly from PT and telling it to copy from source media. Hence I now have the contents of the OMF broken out into a new Audio Folder. However, it seems the names of the expanded files are significantly different from names of files in first session still embedded within OMF.

So, is there a way to correlate the names and force link?

thanks,

[JPorter]

PS - two attachments - first demonstrates name format (OMF encoded) for files it's trying to re-link - second attachment shows names of files (translated from OMF) as they should appear.

[JPorter]

it's proving very difficult to export some of the tracks - keep getting error as attached.

I've no idea how/why it requires 314G of disk space to save to when the original session is under 10G.

Highly confusing.

It would be much better if I could simply expand the OMF and re-point the audio.

Any other ideas?

[Postman]

Have you tried "copy and relink" in the Project window? Seems like that should do it. Select all the files that are referenced in the orig omf (you can sort the file list by location and then highlight all you need at once). "Copy and relink" makes copies in a folder you choose and I believe they will be completely editable also.

Once you eliminate all the references to the embedded files, the odd error you're experiencing probably will not occur either, but of course you won't care anymore!