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 your OMF file to another format, you need Avid Pro Tools or other Audio software.
Convert a file to OMF
To convert other file formats to the "Audio Interchange Project" file type, you need software like Avid Pro Tools or a similar tool.
About OMF files
The .OMF (Open Media Framework) file is a legacy interchange format primarily used to transfer session data between Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) and Non-Linear Editors (NLEs). It was the industry standard for moving audio projects from video editing software like Avid Media Composer or Final Cut Pro to audio mixing environments like Pro Tools or Nuendo. While useful for collaboration, .OMF files suffer from significant technical age: they have a hard 2GB file size limit, forcing large projects to be split into multiple files, and they generally do not support volume automation or plugin metadata transfer. Furthermore, OMF acts as a "black box" container; if the file is corrupted or the header is damaged, accessing the embedded audio is notoriously difficult. Because it has been largely superseded by the AAF (Advanced Authoring Format), users frequently need to convert legacy OMF archives to AAF for modern compatibility, or extract the encapsulated audio streams into standard WAV or AIFF files for editing. A secondary, unrelated use of the .OMF extension is for game animations in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, typically handled by the X-Ray Engine SDK.
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 Pro Tools or similar software from the "Media Project 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 Pro Tools or another comparable tool in the "Media Project 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.