Gallery XML Pro is designed for Final Cut Pro workflows for large scale projects such as motion pictures. In such workflows, there is a strong requirement for turnover from picture to sound departments to utilise compositions which reference original source files.
XML-Pro leverages Final Cut's excellent XML export capability, and converts rich exports into Pro Tools sessions, or AES-31-3 ADL files. Both formats are compositions referencing the original sound media imported into Final Cut. Level information is also translated from the XML into both formats.
The translation is very quick, efficient and reliable, and yields a composition file which can be emailed from picture to sound in order to turn over edits. This contrasts with an OMF turnover which requires all the audio to be copied and embedded in the OMF, and delivered to post, where any changes cannot be referenced back to earlier copied media. Additionally, OMF files have an upper size limitation of 2GBytes which can easily be hit on a long form project.
