Confused on how to export an AAF
I'm working on my first very low budget feature, which now has a completed fine cut. I'm not incredibly confident with the technical side of filmmaking (at least at this level), but nevertheless was able to edit my film with the help of a couple of young assistants, who are currently unavailable.
We need an AAF file of all the sound, to hand over to the sound specialists. We'll also need a quicktime of the visuals along with burned in timecode, and a countdown with a 2 pop. Something will have to be repositioned, because the first frame is supposed to be at the one hour mark although it's currently at 0.
The thing that confuses me, though, is the issue of sequences. Once my assistant and I finished the fine cut, he strung the individual sequences of scenes together into one larger sequence of the whole movie. But...this combined sequence only displays one combined audio track visually. So my first question is... will all of the audio files export properly from this sequence, or will they be merged somehow in the AAF?
How do you approach exporting AAF files for post work on audio? Am I correct that no audio effects (or even volume manipulations) should be rendered? Is there an easy way to turn them off for the export?
I'm also supposed to add in offscreen lines from alternate takes underneath the original lines. Should I do this in the larger combined sequence, or in the original scene-sequences themselves?
Sorry if these are stupid questions
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