Adobe AFTER EFFECTS CS3 PROFESSIONAL User Manual page 64

See also
"Create layers from footage items" on page 139
"Shortcuts for working with footage" on page 637
Supported import formats
Audio formats
• Advanced Audio Coding (AAC, M4A)
• Audio Interchange File Format (AIF, AIFF)
• MP3 (MP3, MPEG, MPG, MPA, MPE)
• Video for Windows (AVI, WAV; requires QuickTime on Mac OS)
• Waveform (WAV)
Still-image formats
• Adobe Illustrator (AI, AI4, AI5, EPS, PS; continuously rasterized)
• Adobe PDF (PDF; first page only; continuously rasterized)
• Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
• Bitmap (BMP, RLE, DIB)
• Camera raw (TIF, CRW, NEF, RAF, ORF, MRW, DCR, MOS, RAW, PEF, SRF, DNG, X3F, CR2, ERF; 16 bpc)
• Cineon (CIN, DPX; converts to project's color bit depth: 8, 16, or 32 bpc)
• Discreet RLA/RPF (RLA, RPF; 16 bpc, imports camera data)
• EPS
• JPEG (JPG, JPE)
• Maya camera data (MA)
• Maya IFF (IFF, TDI; 16 bpc)
• OpenEXR (EXR; 32 bpc)
• PBM (8, 16, and 32 bpc)
• PCX
• PICT (PCT)
• Pixar (PXR)
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG; 16 bpc)
• Radiance (HDR, RGBE, XYZE; 32 bpc)
• SGI (SGI, BW, RGB; 16 bpc)
• Softimage (PIC)
• Targa (TGA, VDA, ICB, VST)
• TIFF (TIF)
You can import files of any still-image format as a sequence. See "Importing still images" on page 87.
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