AMWA Technical Information

AMWA Specifications

• AAF Edit Protocol (PDF, 896k)

• AAF Object Specification v1.1 (PDF, 760k)
• AAF Stored Format Specification v1.0.1 (PDF, 163k)
• AAF Low-Level Container Specification v1.0.1 (PDF, 51k)

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White Papers & Presentations

• "AAF" - EBU Technical Review (PDF, 270k)
  
  
• Enabling Better Media Workflows: An Overview of the Advanced Authoring Format (PDF, 530k)
  
  

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AMWA Developers Library

• AAF SDK API Documentation
  
  
• AAF SDK Plugin Programmer's Interface Documentation
  
  
• AAF Plugin Specification (PDF, 55k)
  
  
• AAF Object Manager Design (PDF, 171k)
  
  
• AAF Object Manager Documentation
  
  
• AAF Developers Guide (PDF, 155k)
  
  
• AAF FAQ for Programmers is a technical FAQ which offers answers to programming question.
  
  
• Null codec implementation and (re)use - Given by Jim Trainor, AAF Developer, at the October 2002 AAF Engineering Meeting, Atlanta (Powerpoint, 245k)
  
  
• Patterns in AAF Software - Given by Jim Trainor, AAF Developer, at the 2001 AAF Developers Conference in Barcelona, Spain (PowerPoint, 287k)



• New AAF Examples - Given by Jim Trainor, AAF Developer, at the 2001 AAF Developers Conference in Barcelona, Spain (PowerPoint, 445k)



• The AAF File Format: A Bottom Up Look at AAF Files and the AAF Open Source SDK - Given by Jim Trainor, AAF Developer, at the 2001 AAF Developers Conference in Barcelona, Spain (PowerPoint, 439k)



• The AAF File Format - Given by Jim Trainor, AAF Developer, this is a presentation on AAF for developers from the SMPTE 143rd Technical Conference in New York City (PDF, 47k)



• AAF For Developers - Jim Trainor, AAF Developer (PDF, 217k)



• AAF - Dodo and the Evolution of an interface



• Dodo Reference Manual



• Rebuilding Derived headers on Windows



• How to download Cygwin tools



• AAF and its use of COM



• Performance evaluation for AAF Structured Storage files - Results collated by Phil Tudor, 5 April 2005, version 0.1 (PDF, 127k)



• TN09 - I/O Performance and the AAF Toolkit - April 5, 2004 Tim Bingham (PDF, 30k)



• To download the SDK, follow this link to the download page.

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Conference Notes:

AMWA Meeting Santa Fe, May 2009
AMWA Europe Mtg London, March 2009
AMWA Europe Mtg Basingstoke, Dec 2008
AMWA Technical Mtg New York, Oct 2008
AMWA Europe Mtg London, June 2008
AMWA Engineering & Users Group Meeting Arlington, May 2008
AMWA Europe Mtg Havant, Jan 2008
AMWA Summit & Mtgs London, Nov 2007
2000-2007 Meetings >>

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