Assets supported file formats supported-file-formats

Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service supports basic content management capabilities — storage, managing metadata online, versioning, upload and download, and so on — for any binary file, independent of its format. Adobe Experience Manager Assets supports a wide range of file formats and each product feature has varied support for different formats.

In addition, Experience Manager Assets provides extended support to generate previews and renditions and to extract metadata and text for full-text indexing. This extended support is provided using asset microservices.

The highlights for asset conversion using asset microservices include:

  • Key Adobe file formats produced by Adobe applications and services, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD, Adobe Dimension, and Adobe Acrobat or PDF.
  • Key imaging file formats.
  • Camera Raw file formats for a wide range of cameras, including Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Olympus, and other manufacturers (powered by Adobe Camera Raw).
  • Common document formats, including Microsoft® Office and Open Document formats.
  • Wide range of video and audio formats.

The following legend describes the level of support for each format.

Support level
Description
Supported
*
See remarks below the table
-
Not applicable

Adobe formats adobe-formats

File format
Thumbnail generation
Full-text extraction
Metadata extraction
Width/Height
AI
-
COLLAGE
-
-
-
DN
-
SBSAR
-
IDEAS
-
-
-
INDD
-
✓ *
INDT
-
-
-
PDF
PROTO
-
-
-
PSB
-
PSD
-
XD
-

* For Adobe InDesign files (INDD), the size of renditions are determined by the preview embedded in the INDD file. Configure the preferences in InDesign (Preferences > File Handling > Always Save Preview Images with Documents, Preview Size) so you can embed larger renditions.

Image formats image-formats

File format
Thumbnail generation
Metadata extraction
Width/Height
Crop
BMP
-
EPS
-
-
GIF
JPEG
PNG
RGB
RGBA
SGI™
SVG
-
TIFF
-
WebP

3D formats support-3d-formats

The following 3D formats are supported.

See also Work with 3D assets in Dynamic Media.

Format
Storage
Versioning
Workflow
Publishing
Access control
Thumbnail preview
3D preview
Dynamic Media delivery
DN
-
-
-
gLB
gLTF
-
-
-
OBJ
STL
-
FBX
-
-
3DS
-
-
USDz
-
SBSAR
-
-
-

Camera Raw formats camera-raw-formats

File format
Thumbnail generation
Metadata extraction
Width/Height
3FR
ARW
CR2
CR3
CRW
DCR
DNG
ERF
FFF
GPR
IIQ
KDC
MEF
MFW
MOS
MRW
NEF
NRW
ORF
PEF
RAF
RAW
RW2
RWL
SRF
SRW
X3F

Document formats document-formats

The document formats supported for asset management features are as follows.

File format
Thumbnail generation
Full-text extraction
Width/Height
Metadata management
Connected Assets
Full document preview
DOC
-
-
-
DOCX
EPUB
-
-
-
-
-
HTML
-
-
-
ODF
-
-
-
ODM
-
-
-
ODP
-
-
-
ODS
-
-
-
ODT
-
OFG
-
-
-
PDF
PPT
-
-
-
PPTX
PS
-
-
-
-
-
RTF
-
-
TXT
-
XLS
-
-
-
XLSX
XML
-
-
-
-
-

Video formats video-formats

File format
Thumbnail generation
Metadata extraction
Width/Height
Preview
Output
3G2
-
-
-
-
3GP
-
-
-
-
AVI
-
DIVX
-
-
F4V
-
FLV
-
M2T
-
-
M2TS
-
-
M2V
-
-
M4V
-
MKV
-
-
MOV
-
MP4
MPEG
-
MPG
-
MTS
-
-
MXF
-
-
OGV
-
-
QT
-
-
R3D
-
-
SWF
-
-
WebM
-
WMV
-

Audio formats audio-formats

Assets as a Cloud Service provides XMP metadata extraction support for AIF, ASF, M4A, MP3, WAV, and WMA audio formats.

Supported inputs formats for audio and video transcription audio-video-transcription-formats

  • FLV (with H.264 and AAC codecs) (.flv)
  • MXF (.mxf)
  • MPEG2-PS, MPEG2-TS, 3GP (.ts, .ps, .3gp, .3gpp, .mpg)
  • Windows Media Video (WMV)/ASF (.wmv, .asf)
  • AVI (Uncompressed 8 bit/10 bit) (.avi)
  • MP4 (.mp4, .m4a, .m4v)
  • Microsoft® Digital Video Recording(DVR-MS) (.dvr-ms)
  • Matroska/WebM (.mkv)
  • WAVE/WAV (.wav)
  • QuickTime (.mov)

Tips and limitations limitations-and-tips

  • Currently, the file size limit for metadata extraction is approximately 15 GB. When uploading large assets, sometimes metadata extraction operation fails.

Dynamic Media - Supported input video formats for transcoding video-dynamic-media-transcoding

Video file extension
Container
Recommended video codecs
Unsupported video codecs
AVI
A/V Interleave
XVID, DIVX, HDV, MiniDV (DV25), Techsmith Camtasia, Huffyuv, Fraps, Panasonic DVCPro
Indeo3 (IV30), MJPEG, Microsoft® Video 1 (MS-CRAM)
FLV, F4V
Adobe Flash
H264/AVC, Flix VP6, H263, Sorenson
SWF (vector animation files)
M4V
Apple iTunes
H264/AVC
MKV
Matroska
H264/AVC
MOV, QT
Apple QuickTime
H264/AVC, Apple ProRes422 & HQ, Sony XDCAM, Sony DVCAM, HDV, Panasonic DVCPro, Apple DV (DV25), Apple PhotoJPEG, Sorenson, Avid DNxHD, Avid AVR
Apple Intermediate, Apple Animation
MP4
MPEG-4
H264/AVC (all profiles)
MPG, VOB, M2V, MP2
MPEG-2
MPEG-2
MXF ‡
MXF
Sony XDCAM, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Panasonic DVCPro
OGV, OGG
OGG
Theora, VP3, Dirac
WebM
WebM
Google VP8
WMV
Windows Media 9
WMV3 (v9), WMV2 (v8), WMV1 (v7), GoToMeeting (G2M2, G2M3, G2M4)
Microsoft® Screen (MSS2), Microsoft® Photo Story (WVP2)

‡ This video format is not yet supported for use with Interactive Videos in Dynamic Media or for use with Annotation in Experience Manager Assets.

Dynamic Media - Supported document formats document-support-dynamic-media

Format
Upload (Input format)
Create image preset (Output format)
Preview dynamic rendition
Deliver dynamic rendition
Download dynamic rendition
AI
-
-
-
-
INDD
-
-
-
-
PDF (See Note below)
NOTE
For secure PDFs, only Upload is supported.

Dynamic Media - Supported raster image formats image-support-dynamic-media

Format
Upload (Input format)
Create image preset (Output format)
Preview dynamic rendition
Deliver dynamic rendition
Download dynamic rendition
Set types that support this format
AVIF
BMP
Image, Mixed Media, and Spin
EPS
GIF
HEIC
JPEG
Image, Mixed Media, and Spin
PICT
PNG
Image, Mixed Media, and Spin
PSD ‡
TIFF
Image, Mixed Media, and Spin
WEBP

‡ The merged image is extracted from the PSD file. It is an image that is generated by Adobe Photoshop and is included in the PSD file. Depending on the settings, the merged image may or may not be the actual image.

Dynamic Media - Unsupported raster image formats unsupported-raster-image-formats-dm

The following subtypes of raster image file formats that are not supported in Dynamic Media:

  • PNG files that have an IDAT chunk size greater than 100 MB.
  • PSB files.
  • PSD files with a color space other than CMYK, RGB, Grayscale, or Bitmap are not supported. DuoTone, Lab, and Indexed color spaces are not supported.
  • PSD files that have a bit depth greater than 16.
  • TIFF files that have floating point data.
  • TIFF files that have Lab color space.

Dynamic Media - Supported 3D file formats support-3d-formats-dynamic-media

See also 3D formats supported

3D file extension
File format
MIME type
Notes
GLB
Binary GL Transmission
model/gltf-binary
Includes the materials and textures as a single asset.
OBJ
WaveFront 3D Object File
application/x-tgif
STL
Stereolithography
application/vnd.ms-pki.stl
USDZ
Universal Scene Description Zip archive
model/vnd.usdz+zip
Support for ingestion and thumbnail generation; 3D previews not yet supported. USDZ is a 3D format that can be viewed natively by Safari or iOS.

See also

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