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

1.

Render all your audio dissolves. The easiest and quickest way to do this is to
go to the end of your sequence and set an out, go to the head
of your sequence and set an in, make sure all your AUDIO tracks are on.
then choose Render In/Out... from the Clip menu.

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.

5.

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

In this method, consolidate your media to any local media drive you wish. You may choose the emptiest drive. This media will later get copied into the OMF file, so we do not copy this to any transport media we are taking to audio post.

Note how under the Disk heading, the consolidated clips reflect that the mediafiles are still on the media drives.

6.

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

7.

Choose OMFI Audio & Composition.
This creates one big file that contains
all the edit information from your sequence
as well as all the audio media. Also, export as OMFI 1.0.

8.

Save the OMF file onto the drive you will take
with you to the AudioVision system.  In this
example, we use a Zip disk.

10.

Now take your transport media to your
AudioVision station.


12.

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
brought in on your transportable media.  Then select the target disk where you want
your audio media to be copied into.

15.

AV then copies the clips, 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 1/20/98 by Wes Plate