One tool, both directions: turn timelines from DaVinci Resolve, Pro Tools, Media Composer or Premiere Pro into native Ableton Live projects — and turn finished Live sessions into AAFs your editor simply opens. Sample-accurate, at any sample rate. For macOS and Windows.
A clickable recreation of the app — flip anything, switch direction, hit convert.
Import and delivery are the same product here — not a feature and an afterthought. Whichever way your session travels, the same sample-accurate engine carries it.
Drop an AAF from Resolve, Pro Tools, Media Composer or Premiere. Get a complete, native Live project — as if you had built it in Live yourself.
Every Live track becomes a named AAF track your editor imports in seconds — with a timecode track at the session frame rate.
Clip positions land on the exact sample — at 44.1, 48, 96 or 192 kHz, at any project frame rate. We test this on real sessions with hundreds of clips before every release.
AAF transitions become Live-native crossfades — full blend length, no level dip. On the way out, Live fades become real AAF dissolves your editor actually renders.
Timeline markers become Live locators. Track and clip colors make the round trip intact — your session still looks like your session.
Clip gain and volume automation transfer in both directions — including the mixer envelopes your fade ride lives on.
AAF files carry neither. Set BPM and meter right in the import dialog and the Live Set opens on your grid — no 120 BPM surprises.
Resolve loves to wrap audio in MXF — Live can’t read it. AAF Bridge converts it to WAV automatically during import. Nothing to install, nothing to transcode by hand.
Imports create a genuine Live project folder — .als, Samples/, project marker. Optionally collect every referenced file into it: one self-contained folder you can move anywhere.
Every conversion writes a plain-text report into the project: what transferred, what needs attention, which tracks to check. Deliver it with the session.
No account. No uploads. No activation emails. AAF Bridge runs entirely on your Mac and works offline — your audio never touches anyone’s server, including ours.
Live’s warping, racks and instruments are extraordinary tools for sound design and film music — what was missing was a dependable way in and out. With a working AAF bridge, Live slots into audio post-production like any conform-ready DAW: take the locked cut in, do what only Live can do, deliver back.
Locked cut in, finished session back — the picture rides along on its own video track, so you mix to image right inside Live, with markers, fades and automation in place.
Drag an AAF (or a Live Set) into the window. AAF Bridge shows tracks, clips, markers and media type before you convert anything.
Markers, fades, colors, automation, video reference, muted material — every feature is a switch. Set tempo and meter for the new session.
One click creates the project; “Show in Finder” takes you straight to it. The .als opens in Live like any session — the AAF like any turnover.
AAF is a great format with real limits. Tools that pretend otherwise cost you a re-conform at 2 a.m. AAF Bridge takes the other route:
The demo is the full app — every feature, no signup, as many conversions as you like. Output covers the first 120 seconds of the timeline — enough to see your tracks, your names and your fades arrive where they belong. If it doesn’t fit your workflow, you’ve lost nothing but five minutes.
macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon) · Windows 10/11 · works with Ableton Live 11 and 12
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Import: AAF timelines from DaVinci Resolve, Pro Tools, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro — linked or embedded audio, tested against real exports from each. Export: AAF for DaVinci Resolve, Pro Tools and Media Composer. (Premiere cannot import third-party AAFs — that is a Premiere limitation that affects every converter; use Resolve or Pro Tools as the gateway.)
Created projects open in Ableton Live 11 and Live 12. Exports work from any .als saved by Live 11 or 12. Live 10 sessions use an older file format that Live itself cannot cross-open — upgrade the session in Live first.
AAF is an audio-only exchange format — no DAW can carry MIDI, plugin chains or bus routing through it. Bounce MIDI to audio before exporting from your DAW; recreate routing in the target. AAF Bridge transfers everything AAF can express, and its report tells you if your session contains something it can’t.
AAF has no concept of warping. Neutrally warped clips (pulled to the grid but not stretched) export perfectly. Truly time-stretched clips are flagged before you convert, with a per-track list — consolidate those clips in Live (Cmd+J) and export again. We deliberately never render the stretch ourselves: Live’s warp engine sounds like Live, and your delivery should too.
Nothing — that’s the point. AAF Bridge detects MXF-wrapped audio and converts it to WAV automatically during import, into the project’s Samples folder. The converter is built in; there is nothing to install.
No. AAF Bridge is a native app that runs entirely on your Mac. No uploads, no account, no analytics on your media, and the license works offline. The only network traffic ever involved is the one-time purchase itself.
The full app with every feature enabled, usable as often as you like, no signup. Demo output covers the first 120 seconds of the timeline — enough to verify your real project converts correctly before you spend a cent.
AAF Bridge runs on macOS (13 or newer, Apple Silicon) and on Windows 10/11. One license covers you on both — activate on the machines you work on.
One license per user, fair-use across your own machines. Activation is one quick online check — after that the license lives on your machine, works offline and never phones home. Checkout, invoices and VAT are handled by Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record. And because the demo converts your real projects, you know exactly what you’re buying before you buy it.