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rraud wrote on 4/2/2009, 12:27 PM
If PTs can import AAF, save as AAF (and pray) Or use an external app like EDL convert (not cheap) to render a OMF file from a Vegas .veg, ,xml or Vegas txt. file.
Or render each track from the head. There is a script for this someplace.
Mindrider wrote on 4/2/2009, 12:59 PM
The "render from each track" thing would be fine, if i could find it... Then i could just rebuild it in protools if all the files had the same start time. This is the big mystery.
And actually, that's all i need to do...just the audio and cross fades. No vol changes or fx. I would think it would be somewhat easy... Or at least i hope. : )
MarkWWW wrote on 4/2/2009, 3:15 PM
You can do this manually of course, but there is also a nice free script from VASST that makes it all a lot easier. Have a look at Trackalizer.

Mark
rraud wrote on 4/2/2009, 5:24 PM
Yeah Mark, The VASST Trackalizer. Thanks, I could not recall where I saw it.
newhope wrote on 4/2/2009, 8:43 PM
ProTools with Digitranslator, an optional additional plugin for ProTools, can import and export AAF and OMF.
The problem is always the nature of the AAF that Vegas exports and its compatibility to other NLE/DAW software.

EDL Convert and the newer EDL Convert Pro can open Vegas TXT and XML files and then convert and export ProTools session files which will give you the individual events on your time line with handles. They can also include levels etc.

Can I suggest that if your are exporting an AAF from Vegas that you try exporting two versions.
An embedded AAF with all the media included in the AAF file and a 'referenced' AAF with the media in a separate folder.

It will just give you some options if one version isn't accepted by the ProTools system.

I know that ProTools will accept AAFs with referenced media from AVID ... not sure about AAFs from Vegas.

New Hope Media
rraud wrote on 4/3/2009, 9:47 AM
I could never get AAF files using Vegas to, or from PTs, Avid, FCP or any other app for that matter. Except Vegas to Vegas... DUH
newhope wrote on 4/3/2009, 8:57 PM
The only version of an AAF from Vegas that I could get ProTools to import was the AVID legacy version. The others reported WAVE errors... not sure if I had some .mp3s in the project as it was an old consolidated version. Vegas indicates that the audio MUST be either WAVE or AIFF and no other audio will be exported to the AAF. This means that if the source audio in your video files isn't in WAVE or AIFF format it wouldn't be included

The bad news in all this is that I couldn't get Vegas to actually export the media I had in my timeline anyway and they, for the most part at least, were WAVE 48KHZ from the captured DV files.

The end result was that ProTools opened the AVID Legacy AAF exported from Vegas, detected that it had one video and 14 audio tracks and created these tracks but it didn't find or import any audio.

I'll try all this again when I have time but for the moment the AAF seems not to be exporting media, though it should.
deusx wrote on 4/11/2009, 3:36 AM
Sure there is a way.

Instead of figuring out how to export from Vegas and import into pro tools, tell the other guy to install Vegas and mix in Vegas. End of story.
newhope wrote on 4/12/2009, 1:38 AM
Great solution... if you don't want BFW files and so many other functions that ProTools has and Vegas doesn't.
Vegas is a great audio tool don't get me wrong, but when dealing with Professional production, not home studios, it has serious deficiencies.

I say that having won a professional audio guild award for a 30 minute short feature I mixed in 5.1 with Vegas. I do like the program and use it regularly BUT it's just not everything it could be in the big league.... by the way there is always the possibility that the ProTools system is running on a Mac... not an option that Vegas offers either.

If SCS were serious about Vegas being a 'Pro' application other than in name only they need to address the deficiencies on the audio side we have all being complaining about for some years now.

My guess is that they are happy to leave somewhere between consumer and pro... a no man's land inhabited by programs like Vegas and Premiere.