Exporting AAF/OMF to ProTools workflow questions...

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2015.0.2OSX 10.10.5iMac3.4 GHz Intel Core i716 GB RAMI'm trying to wrap my head around the workflow for Premiere in a professional environment. When editing, it is much easier to have a sequences audio Clip Channel Format be in Stereo - you only need to make one fade instead of one for the left and the right channel, and one set of keyframes works on both left and right because they're on the same audio track. Great, half the time clicking as two mono tracks. When I go to export an OMF or AAF to send out for finishing to ProTools however, it always seems to mix down the left and right channels into one mono track. What's going on? Can I not export a stereo sequence to an AAF or OMF and retain the stereo tracks? It astounds me if this is true.What this means is that I have to recreate my edit in a mono sequence, highlight all media used, right click > Modify > change the Clip Channel Format to Mono then matchframe every audio clip and redrag into the new mono timeline and recreate the fades and keyframes. Obviously this is a terribly stupid and time consuming thing to do. Sure I could work in a mono sequence but then it would take twice as long to keyframe and adjust fades and my timeline has twice as many tracks to scroll through. Am I don't something wrong? This process should take 30 seconds.Settings:When Exporting an AAF it has Breakout to Mono Enabled. If I turn that off it just errors (Cannot export audio effect "Internal Volume Stereo" because it is not supported. Effect was ignored.) and I can't do anything so fine. I don't really change any options here: 48KHz/16 bit/Embed Audio/Aiff/trim audio files and I give it some handles. I have tried not embedding the audio, also with no success.When Exporting an OMF I just do about the same: 48KHz/16 bit/Embed Audio/Aiff/ Trim with handles. I have also tried separate audio to no success.

JeremyW · Accepted Answer

It's been awhile now but I believe the problem was that somehow they were mono tracks (which you can still put stereo clips on) and I didn't know to recognize the little sound icon in the upper right corner of each track meant that. As far as I'm aware there is NOTHING ELSE to tell you this is a mono track. That is why they were mixing down to mono.

Kevin-Monahan · Answer

Hi Jeremy,When I go to export an OMF or AAF to send out for finishing to ProTools however, it always seems to mix down the left and right channels into one mono track. What's going on? Can I not export a stereo sequence to an AAF or OMF and retain the stereo tracks? It astounds me if this is true.According to the Help doc, "By default, Premiere Pro hard pans the Left channel to the left and the Right channel to the right on export to OMF." I'm not sure if that helps, but may lie at the heart of a potential solution. Here's the help doc: Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Exporting OMF files for Pro ToolsYou should be able to export an OMF with stereo tracks intact, however, if you are having unexpected behavior with your export, you might consider sending the audio to Audition and export an OMF from there. Let us know the results if you try that.Thanks,Kevin

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