I have been experimenting using Logic to sweeten mixes on some short films I have been the editor on. I am exporting the OMFs from Final Cut Pro. Low budget projects for sure but it is just my attempt to add value [($$?) to my edit skills and add polish to something that would not get much sweetening otherwise. My Process is: Bring Firewire drive to Logic System Open FCP project, Export Audio OMF(48kHz, 16 bit, same as digitized) Render QuickTime of locked Picture Track with pre-mix as audio track. Open Logic5.3 import OMF and Open "Movie as Float" Everything seems to line up nicely without any fuss. I locked SMPTE on all regions to avoid accidentally moving stuff out of sync. I have the Hammerfall TotalMix set up for a stereo mix to 1&2. Problems: 1) I am getting snaps and crackles even on a light six track sequence. All AIFF audio, no MIDI. I have a 20 channel mix coming up, Yikes!! This wouldn't be processor dependant would it, I have 2x1GHz and 1.5 Gigs of RAM. 2) I started to get an error message after pressing play that said something like Error-43, I would hit OK, another message about "Fade file not available, file-43" (paraphrasing) Hit OK again and it would play fine, albeit problem #1(above) was there throughout. This eventually happened every time I pressed play. I quit and rebooted but it didn't go away. 3) Possibly a stupid question but if I have some problematic location sound that needs tweaking what's the best way to do that? Can EQ/Noise reduction be added to a region and processed inna AVID/FCP stylee or is it strictly track based? Oh yeah, the inability to lock/link two-track-mono tracks together and add automation to them both with one mouse stroke is a big impediment to productivity. Or am I missing something here...? thanks for your time. -- slick Mac 1GHz DP/1.5gigRAM/MPC2000/DX11/SunSyn/K5m/PC1600 Logic 5.3/Reaktor/FM7/RME Multiface

Thoughts from the mind of SlickSlackcdn, 03-11-2002: >1) I am getting snaps and crackles even on a light six track sequence. All >AIFF audio, no MIDI. I have a 20 channel mix coming up, Yikes!! This >wouldn't be processor dependant would it, I have 2x1GHz and 1.5 Gigs of RAM. IMO this shouldn't happen with such a small mix... Did you try to increase the buffer size (in Audio Hardware)? >2) I started to get an error message after pressing play that said something >like Error-43, I would hit OK, another message about "Fade file not >available, file-43" (paraphrasing) Hit OK again and it would play fine, >albeit problem #1(above) was there throughout. This eventually happened >every time I pressed play. I quit and rebooted but it didn't go away. ? No idea... Isn't Logic supposed to recreate the fadefiles automatically? >3) Possibly a stupid question but if I have some problematic location sound >that needs tweaking what's the best way to do that? Can EQ/Noise reduction >be added to a region and processed inna AVID/FCP stylee or is it strictly >track based? I don't know what AVIDE/FCP style is :-), but in principle processing is track based, yes. You could however route part of your mix to a bus and do the processing there. Would that suffice? >Oh yeah, the inability to lock/link two-track-mono tracks together and add >automation to them both with one mouse stroke is a big impediment to >productivity. Or am I missing something here...? If the two tracks are part of a stereo file (i.e. xxx.L and xxx.R files), then Logic can indeed treat them as one. I've never done it myself, so I might be somewhat off here, but I think you can either switch off Universal Track mode, or have Logic create an interleaved file from the 2 mono files. It's somewhere in the chapter on the Audio Window in the manual -- quite a clear explanation. I just read it this week, but have already forgotten the details :-). -- Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...> Omega Art: http://www.ision.nl/users/h/index.html

--- In logic-users@y..., SlickSlackcdn <andkin@w...> wrote: ... > Open Logic5.3 import OMF and Open "Movie as Float" Everything seems to line ... > 2) I started to get an error message after pressing play that said something > like Error-43, I would hit OK, another message about "Fade file not > available, file-43" (paraphrasing) Hit OK again and it would play fine, > albeit problem #1(above) was there throughout. This eventually happened > every time I pressed play. I quit and rebooted but it didn't go away. I tried playing around with OMF Import/Export a few months ago, and I seem to remember that fade files were an issue. Whenever I have Fade File errors (most often when playing audio files from CD - "Fade file cannot be written") the answer is in 'reminding' Logic where I want it to write these files, i.e. "Set Audio Record Path" in the "Audio File" menu in the Audio window. Since OMF also exports and imports a version of its own fade files, your clicks and pops may be a result of skipping improperly from the main audio file to the fade file. In the same menu you can "Delete Fade Files" which will cause Logic to rewrite the Fade file the next time you hit Play. This may help, I don't know. > > 3) Possibly a stupid question but if I have some problematic location sound > that needs tweaking what's the best way to do that? Can EQ/Noise reduction > be added to a region and processed inna AVID/FCP stylee or is it strictly > track based? Dont' overlook the possibility of cutting a section of one track that needs special help and copying it in place to an unused track to apply a particular EQ to that section alone. With your honking great computer, you should be able to run lotsa tracks that weren't in the original OMF file! (I'm jealous;) > Oh yeah, the inability to lock/link two-track-mono tracks together and add > automation to them both with one mouse stroke is a big impediment to > productivity. Or am I missing something here...? You can re-encode linked mono AIFF tracks into stereo AIFF's from (once again) the same menu as above, "Convert to AIFF Stereo" but you'll find your linked mono tracks still hang around until you delete them and import the stereo track back into the song. Careful to write down or otherwise record the start frame position, otherwise you'll lose your sync! Alternatively, what might work would be to create a new unused stereo track and drag your linked mono files "in place" to it. In the past I've seen Logic recognize linked mono as stereo when this is done. If your mono tracks are not linked, you need some external software to link them, but I can't think what that might be. Anyone? Best of luck, Sonny Keyes

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