What is OMFI?
Avid's Open Media Framework Interchange (OMFI) is a file format designed to allow work to easily be passed between different audio, picture and video editing systems. In the case of sweetening at Digital One, a video sequence cut on a Avid Media Composer can be simply translated into Pro Tools for the audio session. Some of the many advantages of OMFI are these:

1) High Quality: The original audio material is digitized only once (in the off-line process) and the same files go directly to the audio session.

2) Fast: Since the audio tracks are quickly transferred digitally from hard disk to hard disk, they don't have to be recorded in real time.

3) Flexible: The engineer can continue working on the same sequence the video editor left off with. Since the media is the same, cleaning up tracks and fixing edits can mostly be done without reloading material.


Learn even more about OMFI.

Instructions for exporting an OMFI file from either a Media Composer with 7.x software or the Avid Symphony.

Instructions for exporting an OMFI file from Media Composer with 6.5.x software.

Instructions for exporting an OMFI file from Media Composer with 5.x software.

Instructions for exporting an OMFI file from Avid|DS software.

Instructions for exporting an OMFI file from Apple's Final Cut Pro software.

What can go wrong using OMFI.

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