markreidvfx
Setting Tape Name in AAF for IMPORT style OPAtom
To work around some issues introduced by the Avid Media Toolkit, I am looking to create an AAF file that contains a tape name which does not match that of the source media. The source media is of type IMPORT rather than TAPE - so in the AAF there is no tape name. This is necessary as if I create the media as TAPE formatted - I get the same tape name as clip name (Avid bug).
Currently I am able to generate AAF files perfectly with pyaaf2 (loving the tool by the way!) - but of course they are inheriting the source metadata. As per User Comments, can the tape name be overridden in the AAF? Or I guess the reverse, setting the clip name to be different to that in the source?
If it helps I am happy to pay for assistance with this code - looking for the understanding on how to set columns from within the AAF to be visible in Avid Media Composer.
maybe this will help https://github.com/markreidvfx/pyaaf2/issues/9
The tape name that shows up in avid is the name of the SourceMob with a TapeDescriptor, and is not a User Comment. Changing SourceMob.name should change the tape name.
