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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 levelDescription
✓Supported
*See remarks below the table
-Not applicable

Adobe formats

File formatThumbnail generationFull-text extractionMetadata extractionWidth/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

File formatThumbnail generationMetadata extractionWidth/HeightCrop
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.

FormatStorageVersioningWorkflowPublishingAccess controlThumbnail preview3D previewDynamic Media delivery
DN✓✓✓-✓✓--
gLB✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
gLTF✓✓✓-✓-✓-
OBJ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
STL✓✓✓✓✓-✓✓
FBX✓✓✓✓✓✓--
3DS✓✓✓✓✓✓--
USDz✓✓✓✓✓✓-✓
SBSAR✓✓✓-✓✓--

Camera Raw formats

File formatThumbnail generationMetadata extractionWidth/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 formatThumbnail generationFull-text extractionWidth/HeightMetadata managementConnected AssetsFull document preview
DOC---✓✓✓
DOCX✓✓✓✓✓✓
EPUB-✓----
HTML-✓-✓✓-
ODF✓✓✓---
ODM✓✓✓---
ODP✓✓✓---
ODS✓✓✓---
ODT✓✓✓✓✓-
OFG✓✓✓---
PDF✓✓✓✓✓✓
PPT---✓✓✓
PPTX✓✓✓✓✓✓
PS--✓---
RTF-✓-✓✓✓
TXT✓✓-✓✓✓
XLS---✓✓✓
XLSX✓✓✓✓✓✓
XML-✓----

Video formats

File formatThumbnail generationMetadata extractionWidth/HeightPreviewOutput
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 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

  • 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 file extensionContainerRecommended video codecsUnsupported video codecs
AVIA/V InterleaveXVID, DIVX, HDV, MiniDV (DV25), Techsmith Camtasia, Huffyuv, Fraps, Panasonic DVCProIndeo3 (IV30), MJPEG, Microsoft® Video 1 (MS-CRAM)
FLV, F4VAdobe FlashH264/AVC, Flix VP6, H263, SorensonSWF (vector animation files)
M4VApple iTunesH264/AVC−
MKVMatroskaH264/AVC−
MOV, QTApple QuickTimeH264/AVC, Apple ProRes422 & HQ, Sony XDCAM, Sony DVCAM, HDV, Panasonic DVCPro, Apple DV (DV25), Apple PhotoJPEG, Sorenson, Avid DNxHD, Avid AVRApple Intermediate, Apple Animation
MP4MPEG-4H264/AVC (all profiles)−
MPG, VOB, M2V, MP2MPEG-2MPEG-2−
MXF ‡MXFSony XDCAM, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Panasonic DVCPro−
OGV, OGGOGGTheora, VP3, Dirac−
WebMWebMGoogle VP8−
WMVWindows Media 9WMV3 (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

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

Dynamic Media - Supported raster image formats

FormatUpload (Input format)Create image preset (Output format)Preview dynamic renditionDeliver dynamic renditionDownload dynamic renditionSet 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

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.