Files formats supported in AEM Assets

AEM Assets supports a wide range of file formats and each functionality has varied support for different MIME types.

To integrate AEM 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

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.

Unsupported raster image formats in Dynamic Media

The following list describes the sub-types 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.

PDF Rasterizer library

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:

Content-intensive AI/PDF files that are resource-intensive to process.
AI/PDF files, for which thumbnails are not generated by default.
AI files with Pantone Matching System (PMS) colors.

See Using PDF Rasterizer.

Image Transcoding Library

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.

Camera Raw

The Adobe Camera Raw library enables AEM Assets to ingest raw images. See Camera Raw Support.

Document formats

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	✓	✓	✓
PDF	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
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	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
HTML
RTF
TXT
XLS
XLSX
ODS
PPT
PPTX
ODP
INDD	✓
PS
QXP
EPUB

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.

Multimedia formats

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	✓	✓

Input video formats for Dynamic Media Transcoding

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

Archive formats

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.

Other supported formats

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.

Supported MIME types

By default, AEM detects the file type using the file extension. AEM 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 AEM 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. knockoutBackgroundOptions manualCropOptions autoColorCropOptions autoTransparentCropOptions colorManagementOptions autoSetCreationOptions emailSetting xmpKeywords unsharpMaskOptions
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`	postScriptOptions illustratorOptions
AIFF	audio/x-aiff
AVI	video/x-msvideo		ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
BMP	image/bmp
CSS	text/css
DOC	application/msword
EPS	application/postscript application/eps application/x-eps image/eps image/x-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
PDF	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`	postScriptOptions illustratorOptions
PSD	image/vnd.adobe.photoshop	`process=None&layerNaming=Layername` `&anchor=Center&createTemplate=false` `&extractText=false&extendLayers=false`	photoshopOptions photoshopLayerOptions
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