Check AAF Export for ProTools

Always good, some times mandatory, to check how my Roles Lanes from Fcp will show up exactly as tracks in ProTools and do some lifting if necessary.

Most of us don't dispose of ProTools. And the free version doesn't import AAF .

So go to Logic ? (if you can) or Resolve ? organize tracks and re-export AAF ?

maybe some other way ?

Logic Pro X

With Resolve, it's free but you don't have the name of roles in the tracks, and for some reasons i can't explain, you've all the clips but only the first channel online in a multichannel audio clip, the other channels are offline.

I edit long form documentary and it's always the same problem : how can i check the tracks i'm giving to post audio. I do this work today for a 52' and i have some roles in the aaf wich don't exist in my timeline. I don't know how to deal with that .

FCPX.guru wrote: Logic Pro X

ok, last FcpX update mentioned improvement going XML from Fcp to Logic. maybe now it is usable

so XML to Logic and AAF out of Logic to Pro Tools ?

Once you're in Logic, why go to another NLE?

FCPX.guru wrote: Once you're in Logic, why go to another NLE?

for a very simple reason, I have no choice ! 95% of what I do will be sent to an audio facility working on Pro Tools.

Yeah, this is a tough one if you don't have Protools.

What I've done is in FCPX use the timeline index to expand into subroles. This allows for one to see 'in theory' everything being sent in the AAF.

After that I go through X2pro and open the AAF in Logic to check for anything odd. If all is well there, I send the X2pro AAF to the Audio mixer.

Also, I've had some audio mixers prefer the merged subroles, and some separate.

I've never tried sending an AAF from Logic, but that could be interesting to try one day.

FCPXxml to Logic has never worked for me with anything more than the simplest of projects. I only experiment with it when a new logic update comes out, and even then, I don't experiment for too long.

FernKraft wrote: Yeah, this is a tough one if you don't have Protools.

After that I go through X2pro and open the AAF in Logic to check for anything odd. If all is well there, I send the X2pro AAF to the Audio mixer.

Also, I've had some audio mixers prefer the merged subroles, and some separate.

I've never tried sending an AAF from Logic, but that could be interesting to try one day.

thank you for that

yes, if there some arrangements to do, there goes the problem, that's why I was thinking do it in Logic and re-export AAF for Pro Tools...

could you elaborate on "merged subroles" versus "separate " ?

I'ts an option in X2pro in the settings tab.