Exporting Through AAF
Advanced Authoring Format (AAF), is a cross-platform, multimedia file format that allows interchange of media and composition information between AAF-compliant applications. These applications are primarily content creation tools such as Avid editing systems, Avid|DS, and Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge, to name a few.
There are two general types of data in an AAF file:
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Media such as audio and video
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Composition information, or metadata, that provides the instructions
needed to combine and modify the media portions of the AAF file to
produce a complete multimedia program
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