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Originally Posted by John Lundsten
Hmm -U say "for Nuendo and Protools" ~ do U mean AES-31-2 audio media? (Ie the part of the AES-31 project that gave us:- BWF; bext chunks with timestamps- & meta data? Avid/Pt took all that.
But and a VERY big, is AES31-3 the part of the project that defined a good- great way to interchange edit data.
The truth is AES 31-3 (ADL) format, it's so much better than OMF/AAF, which is why:--
Avid ~ Digi had to do (to be fair to them) their not-nice ~ worst to .... to kill it.
Now.
For our very 1st version of AATranslator we used the 2008 spec vers, to write/read ADL interchange files.
Hindsight reality check:--
We it seems are only people who ever used the full 2008 AES 31-3 spec- all DAWs we have found that "support" ADL have their own 'interpretation' or possibly just are following a way older specification.
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Haha... Yes it seems Protools didn't actually support AES31-3 in the end... I assumed they did but I was wrong.. So yes maybe company policy to be overprotective of OMF/AAF. Personally, I never really want to touch OMF/AAF if I can avoid it.
I've noticed that Nuendo's OpenTL support is buggy as hell (it won't even re-import it's own exports without missing pieces!), but with AES31-3 it seems to behave well. StudioOne's OpenTL support seems to work for me but someone said it was mangling the file names for them in the more expensive 'pro' version.. Doh!
It looks like AES were planning more features after AES31-3 but it never happened. Item automation would have been nice.
The thing with dealing with NLEs & audio is that with very inconsistent material like location audio, item automation is often more convenient than track automation, especially on the first pass. I don't like having to substitute one for the other.
New NLEs like FCPX don't even have a concept of tracks. It's all about configurable items and metadata. REAPER items really are the best match for FCPX items for me. Can set which channels on an item to use easily, stick metadata in the item notes, tracks don't care about type of source material etc.