I received an AAF from someone using Cubase and I am on Pro Tools. Luckily, I have Cubase 15 on my system. Here are some thoughts about how to improve AAF transfers to Pro Tools:
- First off, consider defaulting to broadcast .wav instead of AIFF and informing the users of the metadata advantages of doing so. It would be nice to receive audio files with embedded timecode stamps for sound to picture work.
- AAF to Pro Tools should automatically convert multichannel files to multi mono so Pro Tools can correctly deal with the audio on the other end. This should happen without the need for switching a channel to stereo and then using the menu option to switch the channels from multichannel stereo to multi mono.
- There should be a warning if any audio is offline prior to creating the AAF, rather than afterwards.
- An export option called AAF to Pro Tools would be simple to implement, following these guidelines.
I had no issues once I set the tracks to stereo, then converted to multi mono, deleting the stereo original tracks to keep things clean for the AAF. I believe this can all be done as a menu option with one click, rather than multiple steps.