Sonic Studio 5.3 EDLs in Pyramix....

[Temposelect]

I am currently running Sonic Studio 5.3 as my main system. I am considering an upgrade to pyramix and currently have a demo rig in house. The goal is to convert the sonic studio EDL along with its sound files into an OMF via SSL's pro convert. This however will not work because SSL pro convert will not properly read the proprietary MCSF 24 Bit AIFFs that sonic studio creates. Therefore whenever I open up the embedded OMF into pyramix the audio files play back white noise.

One thing that we recently tried was to convert the audio files for the Sonic project in BarbaBatch 4. That way ProConverter wouldn't be reading the Sonic 24bit packed audio files, but instead your more basic 24bit .aif file type. This solved our original issue, but brought up another one:

"While trying to convert in Pro Convert I received an error stating that new audio files are being used with the EDL and then this message..."One Or More Regions reference insufficient media data. The boundaries of these regions will be adjusted." When I open the embedded OMF in pyramix all the audio files successfully play but now the edits do not match up to the old EDL along the time line..."

Any tips for dealing with this issue?


Thanks in advance

[Temposelect]

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[Table Of Tone]

You may find that the problem lies with the sonic files.

I don't know if this will help but sonic sometimes makes files with too big an AFF size.

These can be fixed using Wave Editor (Audio File First Aid) but it will only fix them using an intel mac.
It doesn't fix em on a G5!

It will fix them in two stages.
First it will fix the AFF size and then it will get rid of the illegal chunk.

This applies to exports made on soundBlade 1.3.4 or earlier.

I hope this is of some help?

[Temposelect]

hmm okay, you mentioned versions of sound blade...I am talking about classic sonic studio 5.3 So I am not sure if this will work.

Will the wave editor process the audio at all and degrade the signal? Or just make a conversion? That is the last thing I need to happen to these files haha

Thanks for the reply! It is definitely appreciated and worth a shot!

[Table Of Tone]

Originally Posted by Temposelect

hmm okay, you mentioned versions of sound blade...I am talking about classic sonic studio 5.3 So I am not sure if this will work.

Will the wave editor process the audio at all and degrade the signal? Or just make a conversion? That is the last thing I need to happen to these files haha

Thanks for the reply! It is definitely appreciated and worth a shot!

The audio file first aid should not actually change the audio in any way that I've noticed.
If I need to top, tail and export a wav at say, 48/24 etc,, using soundBlade, it will sometimes add an extra tail when I bring it back into the editor to check it.
Audio file first aid basically fixes this in two stages and leaves the wav with the tail/fade etc that I had given it before exporting.

I don't know if this could even be linked in any way with the Sonic 5.3 issue you are having but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

[reynaud]

does Pyramix's import function of Sonic 5.3 EDLs still only support 16bit imports?

you can try a demo of Media Magic (which runs on OS 9) which opens a Sonic 5.3 EDL and converts to OMF 1 or 2 and AES-31 (which should allow you to do a straight import in to Pyramix).

not sure this will work but it may be worth a try.

cheers,
Reynaud

[Temposelect]

Yes, pyramix's EDL import still only supports 16 bit file format. I will look into Media Magic and report back

Thanks!