Can I reference an external media file?

[mattgreen]

Hi! First of all, thank you for a wonderful library!

Does pyaaf2 support referencing external media files? That is, referencing a file that would be alongside the AAF? Right now I am importing the essence, but this isn't working out for us performance-wise.

Thanks for your time and hard work on this!

[markreidvfx]

take a look at these methods
link_external_mxf
create_ama_link
https://github.com/markreidvfx/pyaaf2/blob/master/aaf2/content.py#L71

Support isn't that great, but mxf is in the best shape as there is a mxf parser included in mxf.py
See this test for a example
https://github.com/markreidvfx/pyaaf2/blob/master/tests/test_mxf.py

Ama linking requires ffprobe data at the moment, see this test
https://github.com/markreidvfx/pyaaf2/blob/master/tests/test_ama.py
A weird issue ama linking might be the media will appear offline in media composer until you close and reopen the bin.

[mattgreen]

I will take a look at that, thank you!