Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your OMF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert OMF to another file type
To convert OMF Media files to another format, you need Avid Media Composer or other Audio software.
Convert a file to OMF
To convert other file formats to the "Open Media Framework File" file type, you need software like Avid Media Composer or a similar tool.
About OMF files
The .OMF file format primarily functions as an Open Media Framework Interchange file. It is used to transfer digital media and sequence timelines between different digital audio workstations (DAWs) and non-linear editing systems (NLEs). You will typically encounter these files when handing off a video edit from Avid Media Composer or Adobe Premiere Pro to an audio mixing suite like Pro Tools. A secondary use (roughly 14% of files) involves 3D animation data for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. X-Ray game engine, edited using Autodesk 3ds Max. The .OMF format is notoriously problematic in modern workflows. It is a legacy standard that enforces a strict 2GB file size limit when embedding audio media, which frequently causes export failures on feature-length projects. Additionally, metadata translation between competing software ecosystems often drops track automation, clip names, and panning data. For a reliable modern post-production pipeline, convert .OMF sequences to AAF (Advanced Authoring Format), which removes the 2GB ceiling. If you need to migrate sequence data to simpler video tools, convert to XML. If you simply need the raw audio locked inside the container, extract the tracks to uncompressed WAV. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your OMF file.
If you want to convert OMF file to AAF, WAV, XML, MP3, MP4, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF or OPUS, you can use Avid Media Composer or similar software from the "Media Project Sequence Interchange" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to OMF, try Avid Media Composer or another comparable tool in the "Media Project Sequence Interchange" category.
The OMF Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our OMF converter.