AfterEffects

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.

Video and animation formats

  • Animated GIF (GIF)

  • DV (in MOV or AVI container, or as containerless DV stream)

  • ElectricImage (IMG, EI)

  • Filmstrip (FLM)

  • Flash (SWF; continuously rasterized)

    Note: SWF files are imported with an alpha channel. Interactive content is not retained.

  • MPEG formats (MPEG, MPE, MPG, M2V, MPA, MP2, M2A, MPV, M2P, M2T, VOB, MOD, AC3, MP4, M4V, M4A)

  • Open Media Framework (OMF; raw media [or essence] only; Windows only)

  • QuickTime (MOV; 16 bpc, requires QuickTime)

  • Adobe Photoshop with video layer (PSD; requires QuickTime)

  • Video for Windows (AVI, WAV; requires QuickTime on Mac OS)
    You can import 10-bpc uncompressed YUV AVI files created in Adobe Premiere Pro into 16-bpc RGB After Effects projects. You can also render with 10-bpc YUV compression. (See Specify Video for Windows compression options.)

  • Windows Media File (WMV, WMA, ASF; Windows only)

Project formats

  • Advanced Authoring Format (AAF; Windows only)

  • Adobe Premiere 6.0 and 6.5 (PPJ)

  • Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, CS3 (PRPROJ; 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 Windows only)

  • Adobe After Effects 4.0 and later (AEP, AET)

  • XML Forms Data Format (XFDF; for importing of Clip Notes comments)