Post workflow with separate recorder- video playback in PT

[philper]

Originally Posted by TRCS

Hey Post guys- thanks for any help on these questions!

Most of my experience is with music- but I've been doing the audio for a bunch of Canon 5D shoots for my brother's videography company. Using an H4N along with some nice location gear. So far we've been using PluralEyes within FCP where he's been doing the mixdown... but we want to switch over to me doing the mixdown within Pro Tools. I've done this in the past with a super laggy video... and then giving the bounced audio track back to the video guys for rendering with the video within FCP. This seems crazy to me...

What would be the best/easiest way of getting the H4N files into Pro Tools along with the edited film? and is it possible to bounce down a high quality HD version of the movie within Pro Tools?

Also, is mastering a normal thing to do on films? Where should I start with that kind of thing?

Any kind of input would be appreciated.

Cheers

1: sync up all your audio in FCP, cut the film
2: do an OMF export with handles from FCP, with sync pops and a lightweight QT of the pix
3: open the OMF in whatever audio app you use and do the work+mix
4: bounce out your mix, pull it back into FCP and sync it to the cut.

philp

[SoundGuyIC]

If you go to www.c5sound.com you can see and download the turnover guidelines that they give to clients, etc.... I found them to be really helpful.

-Isaac

[TRCS]

Just what I need. Thanks guys!

EDIT: Just found this website that seems very good for other interested!

http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/...post-workflow/

[TRCS]

So I just found out that FCPX (the version we're using) doesn't have the OMF export option... So I found the X2Pro website- X2Pro Audio Convert which has a work around involving exporting an XML from FCPX to X2pro and which then converts to an AAF that you import into Pro Tools.

Have any of you guys used this software? Differences between the Pro version and LE version? Is it worth the price?

Thanks guys