Hello,
I am an engineer working in Audition (CC 2015 build 8.1.0.162) on OS 10.11.4. I am having problems opening up OMFs. While ~90% of the files open as expected, as many as 10% of the files open up as either the wrong file, or in the wrong position in the timeline, or with the wrong part of the clip playing.
The most common problem I get is this, for example:
Say tracks 4-8 are audience room mics for the entire the timeline. Throughout the 60-min project there are cuts every minute to 5 minutes. Randomly (seemingly), at, say, the edit at 22m35s track 5 suddenly plays a music track until the next edit, at which time it returns to the proper file. The file in the timeline has the proper name but when I go to reference that file ("reveal in finder" or "reveal in project") it leads me to a different file. I can go back to the original video editor and there is no indication why this would happen; everything there is fine.
My first guess was that this was a compatibility issue between the video apps exporting the file and Audition. But I have had this same issue whether OMFs come from FCP, FCPX, or Premiere. Slowly, project after project, I was able to get video editors to use the same Premiere release/version as my Audition release/version and I am still having the same problems. I have even gone so far as to get the video edit files in-house, and on my same computer, but I still end up with the same types of errant file associations and placements. Sometimes a simple reopening of the OMF will fix this, but you can't always tell if it did. Plus, it may seem like everything worked only to get to the 800th edit point and find another problem. I can have the project open in Premiere with everything intact and toggle over to Audition with different files being played in the exact same spot in the timeline.
I feel I have encountered every type of error you can get when exporting OMFs/XMLs/etc.
Before I go into more detail has anyone else encountered this kind of issue when opening OMFs in Audition?
Thank you in advance,
Craig