
AFTER EFFECTS CS3
User Guide
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• 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” on page 80.
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 and scripted animation are not retained.
Animation defined by keyframes is retained.
• Media eXchange Format (MXF; Op-Atom variety used by Panasonic DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, and DVCPRO
HD video cameras to record to Panasonic P2 media)
• MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 formats (MPEG, MPE, MPG, M2V, MPA, MP2, M2A, MPV, M2P, M2T, AC3,
MP4, M4V, M4A)
Note: Some MPEG data formats are stored in container formats with file-name extensions that are not recognized by
After Effects; examples include .vob and .mod. In some cases, you can import these files into After Effects after changing
the file-name extension to one of the recognized file-name extensions. Due to variations in implementation in these
container formats, compatibility is not guaranteed.
• 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”
on page 620.)
• 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)
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