Adobe Premiere Pro - .omf Audio and QuickTime Export for ProTools Mix

This wiki doc will explain how to prepare and export your "PICTURE LOCKED!!" timeline for use in a ProTools Project.

** NOTE: .OMF Files have a 2 gig file size limit**  For a larger project you will have to export smaller track counts to get this to work

  • Duplicate master timeline, delete video track in duplicate timeline
  • Delete all tracks except 1-8 on first export
  • Delete all tracks except 9-16 on next export
  • Continue process until all tracks are exported

Open your Final Premiere Pro Project and select your final Picture Locked Timeline.

Download these two files Countdown and Universal Tail Leader

Countdown - ProRes.mov

Universal Tail Leader.mov

Duplicate your Timeline that you will be prepping for export to ProTools



Select the timeline>Right Click it and choose > Duplicate

Rename the copy of the timeline so you can easily identify it.

Navigate to the Countdown and Universal Tail Leader files that were downloaded


In this instance they are in Macintosh HD>Users>(your user account)>Downloads>

Shift click the two files and choose to Import them into your project
Double click the Countdown - ProRes.mov file to load it into the source monitor

Mark the entire clip. Go to the head of the clip and mark an inpoint and go to the end of the clip and mark and outpoint.

The duration should be 8:00 seconds

Place the timline indicator at the head of the timeline

Make sure there are not any other in our out points in the timeline.

Right click on the timeline on the ruler and choose Clear In and Out

On the source side click the Insert icon or the "comma" key on the keyboard to insert the

Countdown and 2 Pop at the head of the timeline

Once the countdown is inserted into the timeline double click on the clip to load it

into the source side monitor

Select the timeline to modify in the "Timeline" window


click on the 3 dashed lines next to the name

Choose "Start Time"

type in 59:52:00 and select OK


you don't have to type in the decimals they will be added automatically

Click OK

Notice that now the timeline start time is 59:52:00
Make sure that first picture starts at 1:00:00:00
Next load the Universal Tail Leader from the Media Browser

Mark the entire clip. Go to the head of the clip and mark an inpoint and go to the end of the clip and mark and outpoint.

The duration should be 8:00 seconds

Put the timeline indicator at the end of the timeline

Make sure there are not any other in our out points in the timeline.

Right click on the timeline on the ruler and choose Clear In and Out