Michael Bates wrote:AAF export from Resolve using the Avid AAF and Pro Tools presets currently does not work in the way we in post production sound need it to.
What we need as sound editors are AAFs that link to the original wav files. What Resolve does is renames and exports the original wavs as MXF files.
As a sound editor, I have successfully used Resolve derived AAFs via both the “Avid AAF” and “ProTools” presets (with the media relinking successfully), as well as Resolve derived EDLs with Conformalizer. It’s no worse than working with Media Composer derived AAFs which also reference MXF wrapped media.
Several sound editor colleagues are also working successfully with Resolve 14.2 and Resolve 15 derived AAFs and EDLs (with Conformalizer and Titan) in both ProTools Ultimate 2018.x and Nuendo 8.
Where issues often do arise, is that ProTools doesn’t handle mix rates and formats in any shape or form, whereas Resolve supports mixed audio and video file formats (both lossy and lossless) on the same Timeline, as well as audio files with mixed sample and bit rates (up to 32bit/384kHz), on that same Timeline.
The picture editor needs to be very specific and disciplined in terms of media selection when exporting AAFs to ProTools.