


It can wrap video, audio, data, and even references to external assets along with instructions on how to render this material into a finished program. The Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) is an interchange toolkit and exists to get video, audio and metadata from one system to another. You can consider it as a “Super-EDL,” but actually it is also much more.ĪAF is Open Source, so it’s available to manufacturers for free to implement into their systems. It is a technology designed specifically for digital nonlinear post-production and authoring. What Is the AAF format?ĪAF stands for the Advanced Authoring Format.

In this article, we explain how to export a Pro Tools friendly AAF from Adobe Premiere Pro.Īlthough the basic process is relatively simple, there are some complications if the video editor has used nested clips and sequences, merged clips or you need to get the metadata from the files into Pro Tools to use with the Field Recorder Workflow.
