3 title: Interchange with other DAWs
7 It has never been particularly easy to move sessions or projects from one
8 <abbr title="Digital Audio Workstation">DAW</abbr> to another. There are two
9 <dfn>interchange standards</dfn> that have reasonably widespread support:</p>
11 <li>OMF (Open Media Framwwork), also known as OMFI. Developed and controlled
12 by Avid, never standardized</li>
13 <li>AAF (Advanced Authoring Format). Developed by a consortium of media-related
17 In practice both of these standards have such complex and/or incomplete
18 specifications that different DAWs support them only partially,
19 differently, or not at all.
21 <h2>Moving an Ardour session to another DAW</h2>
22 <p>To move an Ardour session to another DAW, you have 3 basic choices:</p>
25 <li>Copy the interchange folder</li>
26 <li>Use AATranslator</li>
28 <h3>Moving another DAW session to Ardour</h3>
29 <p>To move a session from another DAW to Ardour, you have 2 basic choices:</p>
32 <li>Use AATranslator</li>