AAF Export for Pro Tools

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July 27, 2022
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Do you know why Premiere gives me this message when I export AAF? After pro tools is not able to open it correctly. The only solution I found is to duplicate the sequence and delete the video.
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Matt

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R Neil Haugen

Legend

Merged clips are your problem ... don't do that. Use the multicam process, and flatten before exporting that AAF, then it will work perfectly.

"Multicam" in Premiere is kinda misnamed in practice ... it isn't just for multiple cams, it's the preferred/best-practice way to join video with separate audio in Premiere.

Merge clips tosses out the audio metadata, btw ... read the section in this new best-practices guide on merged clips versus multicam.

Adobe Long-form and Episodic Best Practices Guide

Neil

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LluisV

Known Participant

I do not find how multicam will be helpful with film edit.

We have tons of short takes with one video file, that sometimes have audio, and some audio files. Usually there are auxiliary people that synchonices and merges each video take with its corresponding audio takes and renames it.

Later, the film editor will use this thousands of takes to create a film...

The final edit will be sent to audio editors through aaf export. Audio editors need to have all the audio clips separated.

We think merged clips is the only way to move takes back and forth into the timeline keeping video and audio always in sync.

Regards,

R Neil Haugen

Legend

I'm guessing you didn't actually read the suggested bits, which do give the full working process for doing exactly what you need done. Primary writer for that extensive working guide is Jarle Leirpoll, one of the best teachers for anything for pro work using Premiere.

They are very clear in that paper ... 'merged clips' is only a process used for quick timeline stuff where you put an audio clip to a video clip, to move them around together on that sequence. It loses all meta for the audio, and will not transfer to AAF or any other exporting html type process.

Mutlicam is used for all other purposes. Whether or not there's more than one camera or not is irrelevant.

In fact, you can have a bin of 25 video clips and 25 audio clips, every one a different shoot. Select all, "create multicam" ... and you will get 25 different linked video/audio 'sequences' ... clips really ... with the meta of both the audio & video maintained.

"Flatten" and use for AAF, EDL, XML, whatever. As this is how you get the audio properly handled so you can hand it off to your audio people. Which again, is covered in detail in that paper.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...