Importing audio from FCP

Is there a way to import audio projects from FCP into logic keeping the automation that the video editor has made?
Is there a file format other than OMF that contains the automation. and can FCP export it and can logic read it?
Is there a 3rd party application that can convert?
Or do I have to go back to the bad old days of Pro Tools (or worse, Soundtrack "pro")? PT LE is limited for soundtrack production, isn't it?
Is there anyone doing serious audio post production on logic, and if so, how are the projects imported?

The problem with exporting to AIFF, is that you can't crossfade between your cuts, or normalize regions. Your just stuck with the FCP raw mix. This is OK if your cut is relatively simple and you've already crossfaded and blah, but if you've got all kinds of dynamics going on, and different types of recording, you're definitely going to want more control over the export.
The problem with OMF, is that it doesn't translate well into LP. This seems to be a regular thing coming up on threads, apparently it works better with other audio editors but not LP. I've found that despite specifying handles on my export, non appear thus making crossfading impossible, you just get the same glitches your trying to eliminate.
HOWEVER the great thing is that apple invented their own format XML, an apple interchangeable file format. If you import this to LP, you get REGIONS like in FCP that reference the original files on your HD, which means you can now CROSS FADE, and NORMALIZE.
That makes me happy. I like it.

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Hi, I have final cut studio 5 and the problem i have is sending from FCP to STP.
In the last project i put together i had recorded a lecture and the audio was fine when the lecturer was speaking, but when people asked questions the audio was very poor. As it was a lecture there was no need to edit it so i captured the whole 70min video file in 1 go. I then split the clip up using the blade tool so as that the questions people were asking were in seperate clips to the lecturer talking.
I then right clicked on a question clip and chose send to STP, it went in but it was the whole audio file from the lecture not just the 20 seconds that i wanted, is there any way i can do this?
Cheers for your help with this
Chris

Hi Chris,
Had the same problem. This happens because it is a reference clip in STP, always looking to the original media file. Doesn't matter if you cut it in parts in FCpro: it always shows the entire clip in STP. If the original mediafile is long it slows down everything in STP particularly with drawing the waveform
Solution: finilize your editing in FCpro so you are sure content and lenght are ok; than use the mediamanager to COPY the whole project using 'DELETE UNUSED MEDIA', add handle length etc.
If you send audio files from this new FCpro project to STP you can work with you 20 seconds audioclip
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Hi
I too have had trouble with Audio from FCP 6 messing up in STP 2. My opinion is that the process works if the audio tracks in FCP are either Mono sourced or stereo sourced and are never relinked, split to mono (in the case of stereo files) in FCP during editing. God forbid you unpair a stereo track and delete one channel!
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Once in a while double clicking on the offending clip in STP to open it in a Wave window seems to show the right audio. Either saving it of closing the window ( command/w) restores the right material to the clip in STP.
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Or, you could export the Audio directly from FCP, then import it into STP and position it against the video manually.
One warning : once things start going pear shaped in the FCP-STP workflow, it's my experience that I'm fighting problems all the way. It's why I don't use STP for FCP mixing .... I want to, but its too risky.
I hope V3 is better.
Best
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If you import audio from a CD, it stays on the CD. You probably saw a message something like "Insufficient privileges" which means that the OS recognised that it couldn't write the calculated wave overview back to the CD.
The best method is to copy it to your hard disk and check the Ownerships and Permissions within the Finder info. You need to have Read/Write on any audio file.
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I think I remember this occurring in 5.5 as well, but only very occasionally. In this (my first) cp6 project, it's occurred 3 times already.
What occurs is that upon viewing the output (.exe), one slide will just not play the audio imported to it, although the slides before that one and the slides after it play their imported files.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2289
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