AAF Technical Information

White Papers & Presentations

• The AAF FAQ provides answers to all sorts of questions about the AAF Association and the Advanced Authoring Format. You can also download it in MS Word format.
  
  
• "AAF" - EBU Technical Review (PDF, 270k)
  
  
• Enabling Better Media Workflows: An Overview of the Advanced Authoring Format (PDF, 530k)
  
  
• "AAF - An industry-driven open standard for multimedia authoring". This document provides a very thorough discussion of the Advanced Authoring Format. (PDF, 351k)
  
  
• "An AAF Technology Overview". An overview of AAF technology. (PDF, 2.5M)
  
  
• AAF Overview - A presentation by Brad Gilmer, Executive Director, AAF Association, given at IBC, September 2001 (PowerPoint, 2479k)



• Ingest & Metadata - A presentation on metadata issues given at the 2000 SMPTE Pasadena Winter Conference. Includes a discussion of many SMPTE concepts including KLV, Registries, AAF, MXF, and GXF. (PowerPoint, 682k)
  
  
• Understanding AAF - A Powerpoint presentation, presented as part of the Digital Video Production Workshop at NAB 2000 (PowerPoint, 891k)
  
  
• Packaging and File Interchange - A general presentation on Packaging and Wrappers, given to the SMPTE Digital Cinema Study Group in Hollywood, California in October of 2000. Includes a discussion on AAF, MXF and templates. (PowerPoint, 1.46Mb)

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Developers Directory for AAF Programming Assistance

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AAF Developers Library

• AAF Specification v1.0.1 (ADOPTED) (PDF, 672k)
  
  
• AAF Specification DR4 (PDF, 770k)
  
  
• AAF API Reference v1.0 (Avid draft)
  
  
• AAF Plugin Specification (PDF, 55k)
  
  
• AAF Object Manager Design (PDF, 171k)
  
  
• AAF Object Manager Documentation
  
  
• AAF Object Manager stored format (PDF, 36k)
  
  
• Microsoft Structured Storage Specifications (CHM, 40k)
  
  
• 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



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

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AAF Association Processes

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Upcoming Events:

Conference Notes:

Meeting Documents

Havant UK, Jan 2004
Los Angeles,Oct 2003
San Jose, July 2003
Virginia, June 2003
New York, May 2003
London, Feb 2003
Newbury, Jan 2003
Los Angeles,Nov 2002
Atlanta, Oct 2002
Redmond, May 2002
Virginia, Feb 2002
Barcelona, Nov 2001
Montreal, May 2001
Santa Fe, Nov 2000

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