premiere cs3 (win) to older pro tools system (mac)

[smok3]

I have especially complicated audio mix to be done on this specific project and i would like to deliver all the audio tracks (4x 2ch) + some video preview track to some older pro tools system for final mix.

audio
OMF export from cs3 seems impossible, AFF is not an option, so i guess i will just export 4 stereo pairs for each sequence?

video
i have tested mp4 and it is not eaten by this pro tools app (it does play natively on the qt player installed on that mac, shrug),
a. now what would be a decently small and relatively nicely I frame populated codec i could use for older pro tools?
b. i would like to skip using qt on win if possible, so ffmpeg solution would be really nice?

[Blue_MiSfit]

Audio - sounds like a plan - unless you can do multichannel WAV

Video
A - HuffYUV would be the best option IMO
B - No problem. ffdshow's VFW encoder has a good HuffYUV implementation.

~miSfit

[smok3]

I'am talking about an aging pro-tools system which is run by aging mac machine, i do want to get the guy who works there thought (miracle worker, i will need some miracles on this one....), so where did you get huff?

[Blue_MiSfit]

Erm. I just realized you're running all this on a mac. No good HuffYUV codec exists on the mac, AFAIK. Supposedly ffmpeg can do it, but not sure how you'd get this into ProTools, since that probably relies on quicktime.

If you need this video to be lossless, then Sheer is probably a good option.

If not (just for preview), you can use JPEG at a high compression setting. It will still be all i-frame, but it will be reasonably small (and look pretty bad too :D)

~MiSfit

[smok3]

yes for preview purposes only, what i did at the end with video part was;

a. encode using my old bat skript (which I almost forgot that it was ever writen) into some really basic xvid (using xvid-encraw) + AAC audio (i could easily skip the audio part as well here),
b. remuxed into mov using ffmpeg

And it was working fine enough (No problems with seeking either).

(Pro Tools version was 7.0 i think)

[Blue_MiSfit]

I had also considered xvid in simple profile mode - a good choice on many levels!

~MiSfit