- After Effects accepts many file types for importing
- Video and Animation formats:
- Animated GIF (GIF)
- DV (in MOV or AVI container, or as containerless DV stream)
- Flash (SWF; rasterized)
Note: The alpha channel is imported with SWF files but interactive content is not.
- MPEG formats (, MP4, M4V, M4A) - compressed
- QuickTime (MOV; 16 bpc, requires QuickTime)
- Adobe Photoshop with video layer (PSD; requires QuickTime)
- Video for Windows (AVI, WAV; requires QuickTime on Mac OS)
Note: 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)
- Audio Formats
- Advanced Audio Coding (AAC, M4A)
- Audio Interchange File Format (AIF, AIFF)
- MP3 (MP3, MPEG) - compressed
- Waveform (WAV)
- Still-image formats
- Adobe PDF (PDF; first page only; continuously rasterized)
- Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
- EPS
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG; 16 bpc)
- TIFF (TIF)
- Project formats
- XML Forms Data Format (XFDF; for importing of Clip Notes comments)
- .c4d Cinema 4D
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