AAF Export to ProTools with Shooting Date Metadata for Fieldrecorder Guide Track Workflow

[Claudio_KW]

Dear community
I have edited a documentary and am taking it to audio post-production, working with Pro Tools. In the edit I worked with externally generated proxies, which had the mix from the set in the audio (A1,2). Since the external audio tracks are already at Audio Post, we wanted to do the workflow with "Field Recorder Guide Track". But this requires at least the same timecode and the shoot date in the metadata of my exported files. We found out that ProTools takes the Shooting Date from the "Origination Date" (Dynamic media) of the files. However, the exported files always contain the current date of the export.

As a workaround for the AAF export, I have now entered the shooting date in the metadata for "Scene". This data is also available in the exported audio files. I take the exported files back into the Premiere and then transfer these data into the field "Origination Date". Et voilà, Pro Tools can interpret the data and create the external tracks. But it's very cumbersome and error-prone.

Does anyone have a simpler solution?

Adobe Premiere 23.6.0
Windows 10 Pro

[R Neil Haugen]

Maybe @mstegner or @Fergus H could have a suggestion ...