Experience Manager Assets supports a wide range of file formats and each functionality has varied support for different MIME types.
To integrate Assets with other standards-compliant digital asset management (DAM) solutions and desktop software, use Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP).
Use the legend to understand the support level.
Support Level | Description |
---|---|
✓ | Supported |
* | Supported with add-on features |
− | Not applicable |
Raster image formats supported for asset management features are as follows:
Format | Storage | Metadata management | Metadata extraction | Thumbnail generation | Interactive editing | Metadata writeback | Insights |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PNG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
GIF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
TIFF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
JPEG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
BMP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
PNM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
PGM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
PBM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
PPM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
PSD ‡ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
EPS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
PICT | ✓ | ||||||
PSB | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
‡ 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.
Raster image formats supported for Dynamic Media features are as follows:
Format | Upload (Input format) |
Create image preset (Output format) |
Preview dynamic rendition |
Deliver dynamic rendition |
Download dynamic rendition |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PNG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
GIF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
TIFF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
JPEG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
BMP | ✓ | ||||
PNM | |||||
PGM | |||||
PBM | |||||
PPM | |||||
PSD ‡ | ✓ | ||||
EPS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
PICT | ✓ | ||||
PSB |
‡ 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.
In addition to the information above, consider the following:
The support for EPS files applies to raster images only. For example, thumbnail generation for EPS vector images is not supported by default. To add support, configure ImageMagick. To integrate third-party tools to enable additional capabilities, see Command line based Media Handler.
Metadata writeback works for PSB file format when it is added to the NComm
handler.
To use Dynamic Media to preview and generate dynamic renditions for EPS files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.
For EPS files, metadata writeback is supported in PostScript Document Structuring Convention (PS-Adobe) version 3.0 or later.
The following list describes the sub-types of raster image file formats that are not supported in Dynamic Media.
See also Detect unsupported file formats for Dynamic Media.
The Adobe PDF Rasterizer library generates high-quality thumbnails and previews for large and content-intensive Adobe Illustrator and PDF files. Adobe recommends using the PDF Rasterizer library for the following:
See Using PDF Rasterizer.
The Adobe Imaging Transcoding Library is an image processing solution that performs core image-handling functions, such as, encoding, transcoding, resampling, and resizing.
Imaging Transcoding Library supports JPG/JPEG, PNG (8-bit and 16-bit), GIF, BMP, TIFF/Compressed TIFF (apart from 32-bit TIFF files and PTIFF files), ICO, and ICN MIME types.
See Imaging Transcoding Library.
The Adobe Camera Raw library enables Assets to ingest raw images. See Camera Raw Support.
Document formats supported for asset management features are as follows:
Format | Storage | Metadata management |
Fulltext extraction |
Metadata extraction |
Thumbnail generation |
Subasset extraction |
Metadata writeback |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DOC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
DOCX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
ODT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
HTML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
RTF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
TXT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
XLS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
XLSX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
ODS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
PPT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
PPTX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ODP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
INDD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
PS | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
QXP | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
EPUB | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Document formats supported for Dynamic Media features are as follows:
Format | Upload (Input format) |
Create image preset (Output format) |
Preview dynamic rendition |
Deliver dynamic rendition |
Download dynamic rendition |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AI | ✓ | ||||
DOC | |||||
DOCX | |||||
ODT | |||||
PDF (See Note below) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
HTML | |||||
RTF | |||||
TXT | |||||
XLS | |||||
XLSX | |||||
ODS | |||||
PPT | |||||
PPTX | |||||
ODP | |||||
INDD | ✓ | ||||
PS | |||||
QXP | |||||
EPUB |
For secure PDFs, only Upload is supported.
In addition to the above functionality, consider the following:
To use Dynamic Media to generate dynamic renditions for PDF files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.
To use Dynamic Media to preview and generate dynamic renditions for AI files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.
To use Dynamic Media to generate dynamic renditions for INDD files, see InDesign (INDD) file format.
Format | Storage | Metadata management | Metadata extraction | Thumbnail generation | FFMPEG transcoding |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AAC | ✓ | ✓ | − | * | |
MIDI | ✓ | ✓ | − | * | |
3GP | ✓ | ✓ | − | * | |
MP3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | − | * |
MPG | ✓ | ✓ | − | * | |
OGA | ✓ | ✓ | − | * | |
OGG | ✓ | ✓ | − | * | |
RA | ✓ | ✓ | − | * | |
WAV | ✓ | ✓ | − | * | |
WMA | ✓ | ✓ | − | * | |
DVI | ✓ | ✓ | * | * | |
FLV | ✓ | ✓ | * | * | |
M4V | ✓ | ✓ | * | * | |
MPEG | ✓ | ✓ | * | * | |
OGV | ✓ | ✓ | * | * | |
MOV | ✓ | ✓ | * | * | |
WMV | ✓ | ✓ | * | * | |
SWF | ✓ | ✓ |
Video file extension | Container | Recommended video codecs | Unsupported video codecs |
---|---|---|---|
MP4 | MPEG-4 | H264/AVC (all profiles) | |
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 |
FLV, F4V | Adobe Flash | H264/AVC, Flix VP6, H263, Sorenson | SWF (vector animation files) |
WMV | Windows Media 9 | WMV3 (v9), WMV2 (v8), WMV1 (v7), GoToMeeting (G2M2, G2M3, G2M4) | Microsoft Screen (MSS2), Microsoft Photo Story (WVP2) |
MPG, VOB, M2V, MP2 | MPEG-2 | MPEG-2 | |
M4V | Apple iTunes | H264/AVC | |
AVI | A/V Interleave | XVID, DIVX, HDV, MiniDV (DV25), Techsmith Camtasia, Huffyuv, Fraps, Panasonic DVCPro | Indeo3 (IV30), MJPEG, Microsoft Video 1 (MS-CRAM) |
WebM | WebM | Google VP8 | |
OGV, OGG | Ogg | Theora, VP3, Dirac | |
MXF | MXF | Sony XDCAM, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Panasonic DVCPro | |
MTS | AVCHD | H264/AVC | |
MKV | Matroska | H264/AVC | |
R3D, RM | Red Raw Video | MJPEG 2000 | |
RAM, RM | RealVideo | Unsupported | Real G2 (RV20), Real 8 (RV30), Real 10 (RV40) |
FLAC | Native Flac | Free lossless audio codec | |
MJ2 | Motion JPEG 2000 | Motion JPEG 2000 codec |
The supported archive formats and the applicability of the common DAM workflows, is covered in the following table.
Format | Storage | Versioning | Workflow | Publishing | Access Control | Dynamic Media Delivery |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TGZ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
JAR | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
RAR | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
TAR | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ZIP † | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
† 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. The ZIP archives created using Deflate64
algorithm have limited support in AEM. Archive and un-archive operations are not supported. However, operations like uploading, browsing, and downloading are supported.
The applicability of common DAM workflows for a few other file formats is described in the table below.
Format | Storage | Versioning | Workflow | Publishing | Access Control | Dynamic Media Delivery |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
SVG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
CSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
VTT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
XML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
JavaScript (when configured with own delivery domain) | ✓ |
# The other formats are supported in DAM for storage, versioning, ACL, workflow, publishing, and metadata management.
By default, Experience Manager detects the file type using the file extension. Experience Manager can detect it from the contents of the files. For latter, select Detect MIME from content option in Day CQ DAM Mime Type Service in the Experience Manager Web Console.
A list of supported MIME types are available in CRXDE Lite at /conf/global/settings/cloudconfigs/dmscene7/jcr:content/mimeTypes
.
File extension | MIME type/ Internet media type | Default jobParam value | Allowed jobParam value |
---|---|---|---|
Image | image/s7asset | usmAmount=1.75&usmRadius=0.2 &usmThreshold=2&usmMonochrome=0& |
The default jobParam applies to all image mime type assets. |
3G2 | video/3gpp2 | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
3GP | video/3gpp | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
AAC | audio/x-aac | ||
AFM | application/x-font-type1 | ||
AI | application/postscript | aiprocess=Rasterize&airesolution=150 &aicolorspace=Auto&aialpha=false |
|
AIFF | audio/x-aiff | ||
AVI | video/x-msvideo | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
BMP | image/bmp | ||
CSS | text/css | ||
DOC | application/msword | ||
EPS |
|
||
F4V | video/x-f4v | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
FLA | application/x-shockwave-flash | ||
FLV | video/x-flv | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
FPX | image/vnd.fpx | ||
GIF | image/gif | ||
ICC | application/vnd.iccprofile | ||
ICM | application/vnd.iccprofile | ||
INDD | application/x-indesign | ||
JPEG | image/jpeg | ||
JPG | image/jpeg | ||
M2V | video/mpeg | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
M4V | video/x-m4v | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
MOV | video/quicktime | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
MP3 | audio/mpeg | ||
MP4 | video/mp4 | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
MPEG | video/mpeg | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
MPG | video/mpeg | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
MTS | model/vnd.mts | ||
OGV | video/ogg | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
OTF | application/x-font-otf | ||
application/pdf | pdfprocess=Rasterize&resolution=150 &colorspace=Auto&pdfbrochure=false &keywords=false&links=false |
pdfOptions | |
PFB | application/x-font-type1 | ||
PFM | application/x-font-type1 | ||
PICT | image/x-pict | ||
PNG | image/png | ||
PPT | application/vnd.ms-powerpoint | ||
PS | application/postscript | psprocess=Rasterize&psresolution=150 &pscolorspace=Auto&psalpha=false &psextractsearchwords=false &aiprocess=Rasterize&airesolution=150 &aicolorspace=Auto&aialpha=false |
|
PSD | image/vnd.adobe.photoshop | process=None&layerNaming=Layername &anchor=Center&createTemplate=false &extractText=false&extendLayers=false |
|
RTF | application/rtf | ||
SVG | image/svg+xml | ||
SWF | application/x-shockwave-flash | ||
TAR | application/x-tar | ||
TIF / TIFF | image/tiff | ||
TTC | application/x-font-ttf | ||
TTF | application/x-font-ttf | ||
VOB | video/dvd | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
VTT | text/vtt | ||
WAV | audio/x-wav | ||
WEBM | video/webm | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
WMA | audio/x-ms-wma | ||
WMV | video/x-ms-wmv | ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS | |
XLS | application/vnd.ms-excel | ||
ZIP | application/zip |