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

• AI Splitter
  
  
• 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, 2024 Tim Bingham (PDF, 30k)



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

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Upcoming Events:

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Conference Notes:

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
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