Apply Timewarp effect to clip in AAF creation

[kevinparkbss]

Hi Mark! I'm probably missing something obvious, but is there a way to apply a timewarp effect on a clip that I'm adding to a sequence AAF? The idea is that I would I could define a linear speed change and that it would show up as an avid effect applied to the clip on the avid timeline.

Thanks!

[markreidvfx]

Its possible, but could be tricky to get right. The best way is to output a AAF from Media Composer with a retime on it and match the same structure. I have helper functions to interpolate the retime curves in misc.py and you might want to take a look at test_retime.py

You might want to also checkout this file from another of my projects avb2aaf.py. That file registers most of the definitions needed for create retimes.

[kevinparkbss]

thanks for the info mark! I'll start with your suggestions and see where I get. In terms of evaluating an AAF from Media Composer, is the best way to do this to look at it with the aaftreemodel script?

[markreidvfx]

I normally just use the aafdump.py script or the dump method on any AAFObject and paste the output in a text editor.