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Using AAF and OMF files

Using AAF and OMF files

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Using AAF and OMF files

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- [Instructor] I mentioned briefly earlier in this course, and also in the previous course on editing, about exporting your audio for a sound designer. This process is actually much more challenging than it seems. For a long time AAF was the standard, but it was a limited format. So then OMF was released and is a much more powerful format that, you know, one would have assumed would have fixed all of our issues. But the problem is I don't think I've ever once had either of these formats work perfectly for me. And I don't know that I've even had an OMF file work ever at all honestly. I've had much more success using AAF files, and, actually, all of the audio people I worked with throughout this whole process, from my friend Melissa who mixed the trailer audio, to Scott Charles, Jake Kent, Bruce Williams. In every case, everybody used AAF files. Those are the only ones that worked to translate my project over. OMF…

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