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