I've been using Amber Fin/Snell & Wilcox to decompose Sony's MXF wrapped video files into an m2v video file and two .aes audio files. The only references i can find for aes audio files are that aes is a hardware codec. Can anyone point me to a method for importing aes files to an NLE, or, a way to convert aes to wav files?

im current trying a way to process mp4 files, and one handy program is ffmpeg.

you can extract in wave from mp4 or mxf if i remember

example:

ffmpeg.exe -v -1 -y -i "input.mxf" -acodec pcm_s16le "output.wav"

Not what you asked for, but my workaround uses Vegas to render out the audio to an AC3 5.1 file from the .mxf file.

1.) Snell and Wilcox to .m2v for the video
2.) Vegas to .ac3 for the audio.

The audio and video files can be muxed without rendering, or your preferred method.