Adobe Premier To Pro Tools 8 LE

[Mick Boggis]

Hi everyone, I have a sall conundrum. There is a 3 day project that I am being asked to do which fits in with my time nicely - but only just !!
The picture and sound are on Adobe Premier however. I do have access to a system that has that on, but have never used it before. Any advice as to whether I am better of spending a few hours learning Adobe or getting an OMF for Pro Tools import as I am unaware of possible pitfalls following that route (the preferred one for me but if it holds things up, well ...)

All the best

[philper]

Originally Posted by Arfer Guinness

Hi everyone, I have a sall conundrum. There is a 3 day project that I am being asked to do which fits in with my time nicely - but only just !!
The picture and sound are on Adobe Premier however. I do have access to a system that has that on, but have never used it before. Any advice as to whether I am better of spending a few hours learning Adobe or getting an OMF for Pro Tools import as I am unaware of possible pitfalls following that route (the preferred one for me but if it holds things up, well ...)

All the best

Fastest might be doing the project in Premiere and Audition if they have it. I haven't had much luck getting workable OMFs out of Premiere.

Philip Perkins

[leeg1970]

Arfer,

Last time I had a Adobe Premier OMF the client had to get 'automatic duck' to make the OMF - It cost the client somewhere in the region of £200/300.

Automatic Duck, Inc.

LEE G

Originally Posted by Arfer Guinness

Hi everyone, I have a sall conundrum. There is a 3 day project that I am being asked to do which fits in with my time nicely - but only just !!
The picture and sound are on Adobe Premier however. I do have access to a system that has that on, but have never used it before. Any advice as to whether I am better of spending a few hours learning Adobe or getting an OMF for Pro Tools import as I am unaware of possible pitfalls following that route (the preferred one for me but if it holds things up, well ...)

All the best

[danijel]

Premiere CS 4.1 finaly has the OMF sort-of sorted out. If Premiere exports it, PT will be able to import. The problem is that on a simpler project it will work, but if there are many clips (don't know how many), the OMF export will hang. Try to clear the project as much as possible prior to exporting, ie delete all video, all unnecessary audio, and if that doesn't work, split the project into two or more parts (either by having first two channels in one, and the rest in the other project, or by having the first x minutes in one, and another x minutes in the other).
I'm writing this from my short experience with Premiere 4.1 in the last couple of months, there may be better answers on Adobe's forums.

[leeg1970]

I'm not sure which version I received my OMFi from Premiere but it was for a heavy dx Feature with sync fx and bg's - At a guess it was around 20 channels of audio. Never had any reports of hanging before. But this was an older version...

Originally Posted by danijel

Premiere CS 4.1 finaly has the OMF sort-of sorted out. If Premiere exports it, PT will be able to import. The problem is that on a simpler project it will work, but if there are many clips (don't know how many), the OMF export will hang. Try to clear the project as much as possible prior to exporting, ie delete all video, all unnecessary audio, and if that doesn't work, split the project into two or more parts (either by having first two channels in one, and the rest in the other project, or by having the first x minutes in one, and another x minutes in the other).
I'm writing this from my short experience with Premiere 4.1 in the last couple of months, there may be better answers on Adobe's forums.

[Mick Boggis]

So I'm confused what you're saying Leeg1970, your last post expressed hope and the previous one doom. Of course I could be totally misreading it !!

[leeg1970]

No doom here man

I read the replies you got on the DUC. I think auto-matic duck is no more on the later versions of Adobe P.. So I can't really help further...

Did you check on the A.Duck site to see if the version of Premiere used is compatible?

Originally Posted by Arfer Guinness

So I'm confused what you're saying Leeg1970, your last post expressed hope and the previous one doom. Of course I could be totally misreading it !!

[Mick Boggis]

I'm pleased to hear that you are free of doom
I have been over to adobe forums and this is what I got there Adobe Forums: Which Adobe Program To Mix In ? Don't think that they understand how we work !!

[vudoo]

Simple, if you don't have the latest premiere, just go to the Adobe site and download the 30 day fully functional demo, open your premiere project and export the movie as MOV and the corresponding OMF.
Import these into PT HD/LE and mix away. I just finished 3 documentary that was edited on premiere and i mixed it at my studio on PT 8 HD.

[Mick Boggis]

That's the answer I was looking (hoping) for ie somebody has been down this route on more than one occasion without any problems.
If I do take the project I'll try this and post back my experiences of it.
Thanks to everyone for their input and time,
Best Regards,
Mick Boggis