They are two totally different beasts entirely. They are self proclaimed standards that never should have been created. Although the container format is always a standard, the methods of describing data within the containers is not. They each have multiple ways of describing the same thing and since everyone has a slightly different way of doing things within the containers, they might as well not exist at all. To call it any kind of standard should be against the law. OMF is literally a format within a container format. AAF is much worse because it is a format within a container within a structured storage format. And no there is no such thing as a 'standard' OMF or AAF. Even Avid have two different variants of both OMF and AAF - the ProTools variant and the Media Composer variant. From memory even Final Cut X doesn't have AAF (or even OMF). So no I'm not surprised Audition doesn't have AAF support
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