Assets 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

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

* For Adobe InDesign files (INDD), the size of rendition is 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) to embed larger rendition.

Image formats

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

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 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - ✓ ✓
USDz ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - ✓

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

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

File format Thumbnail generation Metadata extraction Width/Height
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

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

  • 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 8bit/10bit) (.avi)
  • MP4 (.mp4, .m4a, .m4v)
  • Microsoft Digital Video Recording(DVR-MS) (.dvr-ms)
  • Matroska/WebM (.mkv)
  • WAVE/WAV (.wav)
  • QuickTime (.mov)

Tips and limitations

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

Dynamic Media - Supported input video formats for 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

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

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

‡ 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

The following 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.

Dynamic Media - Supported 3D file formats

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 only; no viewing or interaction is available. USDZ is a proprietary 3D format that can be viewed natively by Safari or iOS.

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