Protools OMF

Render all your audio dissolves. The easiest and quickest way to do this is to go to the end of your sequence and set an out, go to the head of your sequence and set an in, make sure all your AUDIO tracks are on. then choose Render In/Out... from the Clip menu.

Duplicate your final sequence, naming the copy something to reflect that it will be used for audio. You can duplicate your sequence in the composer window by choosing Duplicate from the menu underneath the sequence name, or in the bin by selecting your sequence then choosing Duplicate from the Edit menu.

Create a new bin and move your Audio sequence into it.

Bring your Audio sequence into the timeline and delete all the video tracks, leaving behind a sequence with only audio.

In the bin, select the Audio-Only sequence, and from the Clip menu select Consolidate... In this method, consolidate your media to any local media drive you wish. You may choose the emptiest drive. This media will later get copied into the OMF file, so we do not copy this to any transport media we are taking to audio post. Note how under the Disk heading, the consolidated clips reflect that the mediafiles are still on the media drives.

Again in the bin, select the Audio-Only sequence and select Export... from the file menu. Choose OMFI Audio & Composition. Use AIFF file format. This creates one big file that contains all the edit information from your sequence as well as all the audio media. Also, export as OMFI 2.0.

Save the OMF file anywhere you have room, either on your internal hard drive or on one of your media drives. The file is going to be large, and since we can delete it after the final step, we don't want it taking up space on our transport drive. Also, keep in mind that since all the media files are also being converted into OMFI format, the export time will be fairly slow.

Because we've been saving and consolidating to other drives, the transport media should still be empty.

Quit Media Composer and save OMF to a removable medium such as a CDR.