I am told that the Consolidate option works only for Tape captured
material. But Bob stands correct that for (file) imported audio
material, the original master clip length is embedded even if a small
portion of the media is used in the OMF exported timeline. This
limitation is not yet resolved.
Sylvain Labrosse
Avid DS Support
Escalation team
http://www.softimage.com/avidds
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Bob Maple
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 2:44 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: OMF limitations
>I run into this all the time, it means the OMF is over 2 gigs. (not
>that the error tells you that). Split your audio in halfs and try
>that. Bet it works, and you'll have 2 omf's somewhere in the range 1.2
>gigs or something.
Most of the time that doesn't even work for me.
I narrowed this down at one point; If big long tracks were imported
originally (like music tracks, or mixdowns from tape, etc.) even if you
only use 10 frames of a piece of that audio, DS will try to put the
entire thing in the OMF (regardless of the 'Consolidate' switch which
doesn't seem to actually work).
Even if you PURGE the unused media, so that there is only the portion
you used remaining on the system, DS will seemingly pad the embedded
media when it makes the OMF as if it was the original length of the
clip! Which will of course push you back over the size limit if that
was your problem in the first place. It's just flat-out broken.
| Bob Maple | bobm_at_burner_dot_com | [http] burner.com
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