hey jimbo,
do you hand off to your audio engineer using OMF files?
I should have read the original question better. :-)
I stopped using OMF files that are generated by DS. :-( DS and Logic
Pro (Macintosh) don't always play well together exchanging OMF files,
and I got tired of being "surprised" at the end of a project by what
Logic couldn't deal with, or what DS couldn't output.
Anywho...
I put music, effects, voice-over, etc., on different tracks. I do a
reasonable mix while I'm editing, then map each track to a separate
physical output and export a multi-channel AIFF for my sound guy. I
generate a low-res quicktime movie of the finished project with
burned-in timecode and an EDL as well, for reference. We do short-
form docs, so our needs are somewhat simple.
We also start with all our audio masters sync'd to the footage in the
DS, so it's not critical that we export all the metadata from the
timeline. EDLs aren't too hard for a human to read if you get stuck
and need to find one or two pieces of the original audio-- provided
you use short reel names. :-)
It's a little clunky, but fits our "working style" and it reduces end-
of-project panics.
I guess you could call this the swiss-army-knife approach. Seems to
compliment the swiss-army-knifeness of the DS. :-)
-Jimbo
(the technocrat.)
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