[ardour-dev] Creating sound files

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 17:14 +0000, John Emmas wrote:

> > 2) there is no reason to write small parts of existing AAF files to a
> > new file. just specify the entire AAF file as a source, and later a
> > region that corresponds to the required data.
> >
> 
> Thanks guys.  My plan was to make the source files part of the session
> structure (i.e. option 1, above) but I hadn't realised about making the
> paths relative.  I'll bear that in mind.
> 
> I don't think option 2 would help much because AFAIK there's no simple means
> of finding the media as an offset from the start of the AAF file (in fact,
> the media needn't necessarily be contiguous and needn't necessarily be in
> the right byte order.  That's all handled internally by the AAF toolkit).

d'oh! i totally misread this. i was thinking "AIFF" file. my mistake.