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December 14, 2023
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AAF Woes....

  • December 14, 2023
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I am running into wall after wall trying to make an AAF for my mixer.  Here are the specifics.

- Interviews were three camera and production sound.

- Everything was synched into a multicam sequence. 

- Selects (subsequences) were pulled from the multicam intvw.

- When ready to send to color and mix, I selected my whole sequence and hit multicam>flatten

- Picture reverts to source clips.  Audio does not.  It stays nested.

 

So, when I hand off an XML or AAF to color... everything is fine.  But, the audio AAF has tons of missing regions.

 

I figured out a few different workarounds.  The worst being to recut all the audio in by matching in replacing each clip.  There were thousands of edits.  This truly sucked.

I also toyed with just nesting then multi-camming ONLY the cameras within a sequence.  But, you lose multicam abilities once you cut this sequence into another sequence because Premiere nests it, and that new nest is not longer a multicam sequence but rather a sequence with a multicam sequence within it. 

There's also the possibility of pacing the "source sequence" above the edit sequence and copy/pasting segments from the source into the edit timeline.  But, this is neither efficient nor traditional bin editing. 

I guess my question is, is there a way to have the CONTENTS of a sequence that you have loaded in your source monitor drop into your edit without it being nested?  A setting maybe?  This would solve everything.

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Correct answer R Neil Haugen

You can turn off 'auto-nesting' in the Sequence controls section, so when adding sections of another sequence to the working sequence, that all comes in as individual clips.

 

But @Jarle Leirpoll and @Warren Heaton10841144 would probably give good advice ...

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R Neil Haugen
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December 14, 2023

You can turn off 'auto-nesting' in the Sequence controls section, so when adding sections of another sequence to the working sequence, that all comes in as individual clips.

 

But @Jarle Leirpoll and @Warren Heaton10841144 would probably give good advice ...

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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December 14, 2023

Thanks so much.  Literally ten seconds before you posted, I figured this out.  Not much you can do if you cut in the wrong way from the beginning, but good to know for the future.  Appreciate the feedback.