AAF File Interchange

AAF is a widely adopted pro audio file interchange standard that allows you to easily exchange Digital Performer projects with the latest version of Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro (via 3rd-party utilities) and other professional audio and video applications.

Now you can receive and deliver projects from colleagues and clients, regardless of which AAF-compliant audio or video software they use, and complete your projects on - or before - schedule working within the comfortable and familiar environment of Digital Performer.

When you transfer a session between Digital Performer and Pro Tools, Digital Performer provides numerous interchange options to accommodate different versions of Pro Tools — and even other audio and video applications. Convenient options are provided for DigiTranslator 1.0, DigiTranslator 2.0, Avid Xpress and Logic compatibility.

Enhanced OMF interchange

Digital Performer's ability to import and export OMF interchange documents has been improved, especially to and from older versions of Pro Tools and Avid Media Composer.

Apple Loop import

Drag and drop Apple Loops directly into Digital Performer audio tracks, where they immediately and automatically conform to the tempo of your music.

Expanded audio file support

While DP has historically supported a wide variety of audio export formats, it now allows you to choose Broadcast WAVE, AIFF or Sound Designer II (SDII) as the native audio file format for your DP projects. This allows you to record, play and import audio directly in the chosen format. Separate preferences are provided for project file formats and default file formats.

Wave64 support

In addition to native Broadcast WAVE file support, Digital Performer also supports the industry standard Wave64 extension to the Broadcast WAVE file format, which allows you record and import audio files larger than 4GB. Digital Performer even automatically switches to the Wave64 bit extended format when the file size exceeds 4GB during recording. For example, when recording mono audio files at 16-bit 44.1 kHz, the resulting audio files can be up to 865 hours long. At 24-bit 192 kHz, a six channel (5.1 surround) interleaved audio file can be 66 hours long.

Native support for interleaved audio files

DP can record and play interleaved audio files (stereo and surround), without the need to de-interleave them into mono files beforehand. Not only does this save you enormous amounts of time when importing and exporting files, it also greatly reduces the number of audio files you need to manage when working with interleaved file formats.

Support for floating point audio files

DP can import, record and play floating point audio files, an emerging file format standard used for high-end recording, mixing and mastering applications. This allows you to take advantage of the same exponential headroom and dynamic range Digital Performer employs internally when performing floating point computations for mixing and processing.

Improved OMF/AAF import

DP's expanded audio file support means that a wider variety of OMF and AAF files can be imported without converting the audio.