Now that you're all finished with your sequence,
you're ready to go to audio post.

1.

When going to AudioVision, it is not necessary to render your audio dissolves,
however if you plan to send digitized video to your AV station, you should render
all video effects first off.  Also, do NOT render your audio EQs, rendering them
will make the original audio source unavailable to AudioVision.

2.

Duplicate your final sequence, naming the copy something to reflect that it will be used for audio.
You can duplicate your sequence in the composer window by choosing Duplicate
from the menu underneath the sequence name, or in the bin by
selecting your sequence then choosing Duplicate from the Edit menu.

3.

Create a new bin and move your Audio sequence into it.

4.

Bring your Audio sequence into the timeline and delete
all the video tracks, leaving behind a sequence with only audio.

*do not do this step if you are sending digitized video as well as audio.

5.

In the bin, select the Audio-Only sequence, and from the Clip menu select Consolidate...

In this method, consolidate your media to the drive you are taking with you to sweetening.
In this example we are using a Zip drive, but for longer
pieces you may wish to use a Jaz or some other larger media.

Please note that Consolidating is up to you and your Audio person.  I have spoken
with feature editors andTV show editors who say their sound people do NOT like
Consolidated audio, so talk with your partner in audio and get your specifications.

Note how under the Disk heading, the consolidated clips reflect that the mediafiles now live on the Zip.

6.

Again in the bin, select the Audio-Only sequence
and select Export... from the file menu.

7.

Choose OMFI Compositions Only,
and be sure the SD2 Format box is NOT checked.
Also, export as OMFI 1.0.

8.

Navigate in the dialogue box to your transport media.
You should see on the drive the 6.x (or 5.x)
Mediafiles folder containing your consolidated media.
Save your OMF file here.
Because the OMFI Composition is a small file,
describing edits and referring to mediafiles,
the export is very fast.

9.

Notice that the Zip now contains two items,
the small OMF file (in this case, it is 309kB) and the Mediafiles folder.

10.

Now take your transport media to your
AudioVision station.  Open your AV session,
or create a new one.

If you create a new session,
go to the Audio Media disk you want to use
and create a new folder called "MediaFiles".

Note:  if the name of this folder is changed,
AV will NOT see it.

11.

While still in the Finder, copy into the MediaFiles folder
the OMFI file and the 6.x MediaFiles (or 5.x) folder from
your transportable media.

We recommend you copy the OMFI file to the same
location as the media, so that if you backup your
MediaFiles, the OMFI will get backed up also.

12.

Back in AudioVision, create a bin to put your sequence into.

13.

With your bin selected, choose Import... from the file menu.

14.

In the import window, select OMFI and then navigate to the OMF file you
copied to your media drive.  In this case, the "Target Disk" menu is irrelevant,
the audio files are already on the media disk.

15.

AV then finds your clips that you copied, and incorporates
the media into the AudioVision session.

16.

AudioVision double-checks with you the sample rate.

17.

Voila, your sequence and associated clips show up
in the bin you created.

18.

Cool, load your sequence and design away.  Its that easy.

19.

Since in the ProTools areas of this how-to site I go over bringing audio Back to Media Composer,
I will bring up something we've run into with AudioVision.
Unfortunately, you can't bring into the Media Composer a sequence with OMFI.

If you try, you'll get an error.

So if you wish to go back to Media Composer with your audio as a file,
bouce to a file like SDII and import the SDII file to the Media Composer.

This is shown next.

20. (optional)

Now bring your transport media back to your
Media Composer system and in the MC.
Select Import... from the File menu.  Select
Sound Designer II as the file type and navigate
to the bounced mix file (in this case on the ZIP).

After you import it, cut it back into your
sequence.  You're done!

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last modified 1/22/98 by Wes Plate