How to Export a Reaper Project to OMF
OMF is a decades-old interchange format most audio and video software can open — but Reaper can't export it directly. Here's how to turn a Reaper session into an OMF other software can open.
OMF (Open Media Framework) is an interchange file format created by Avid in the 1990s to move audio and video sessions between different editing systems. It bundles together your audio clips, their exact position on the timeline, trim points, fades and levels — everything an engineer in another program needs to keep working on a session that was built somewhere else.
The catch: Reaper has no built-in OMF export. If you need to hand a session over to someone working in Pro Tools or another system that reads OMF, there's simply no menu item for it.
That's what this converter does. Zip your Reaper project folder (the .rpp and its audio) and upload it, and you get back a single OMF with the audio embedded: every track laid out, clips trimmed and positioned exactly as in your project, with fades, clip gain and volume automation carried across. Stereo items arrive as paired .L/.R mono tracks, since OMF carries mono clips.
A few things don't travel in an OMF: plug-ins and other effects, sends, MIDI items and panning — bounce anything you need to keep to audio before zipping the project. An OMF also can't exceed 4 GB.
You can convert your Reaper project to OMF for free here.
Going the other way? Here's how to open an OMF file in Reaper.