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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>
<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>
</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>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>
</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>
</ul>
<p>More details on these options are available:</p>
  



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