Formats supported in Adobe Experience Manager Assets

Experience Manager Assets supports a wide range of file formats and each functionality has varied support for different MIME types. To integrate Assets with other standards-compliant digital asset management (DAM) solutions and desktop software, use Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP).

Use the legend to understand the support level.

Support Level
Description

✓
Supported

*
Supported with add-on features

−
Not applicable

Supported raster image formats in Experience Manager

The supported raster image formats in Assets are:

Format
Storage
Metadata management
Metadata extraction
Thumbnail generation
Editing
Metadata writeback
Insights

PNG
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓

GIF
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
−
✓

TIFF
✓
✓
✓
✓
−
✓
✓

JPEG
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓

BMP
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
−
✓

PNM
✓
✓
−
−
−
−
✓

PGM
✓
✓
−
−
−
−
✓

PBM
✓
✓
−
−
−
−
✓

PPM
✓
✓
−
−
−
−
✓

PSD ‡
✓
✓
✓
✓
−
−
✓

EPS
✓
✓
✓
✓
−
✓
−

PICT
−
−
−
−
−
−
✓

PSB
✓
✓
✓
✓
−
−
−

‡ 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.

In addition to the information above, consider the following:

• The support for EPS files applies to raster images only. For example, thumbnail generation for EPS vector images is not supported by default. To add support, configure ImageMagick. To integrate third-party tools to enable additional capabilities, see Command line based Media Handler.

• Metadata writeback works for PSB file format when it is added to the NComm handler.

• For EPS files, metadata writeback is supported in PostScript Document Structuring Convention (PS-Adobe) version 3.0 or later.

Supported 3D formats

The following list of 3D formats is supported.

See also Working 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
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
−
−
✓

Supported PDF Rasterizer library

The Adobe PDF Rasterizer library generates high-quality thumbnails and previews for large and content-intensive Adobe Illustrator and PDF files. Adobe recommends using the PDF Rasterizer library for the following:

• Content-intensive AI/PDF files that are resource-intensive to process.
• AI/PDF files, for which thumbnails are not generated by default.
• AI files with Pantone Matching System (PMS) colors.

See Using PDF Rasterizer.

Supported Image Transcoding library

The Adobe Imaging Transcoding library is an image-processing solution that performs core image-handling functions, such as, encoding, transcoding, resampling, and resizing.

Imaging Transcoding library supports JPG/JPEG, PNG (8-bit and 16-bit), GIF, BMP, TIFF/Compressed TIFF (apart from 32-bit TIFF files and PTIFF files), ICO, and ICN MIME types.

See Imaging Transcoding Library.

Supported Camera Raw

The Adobe Camera Raw library enables Assets to ingest raw images. See Camera Raw support.

Supported Assets document formats

Document formats supported for asset management features are as follows:

Supported multimedia formats

Storage
Metadata management
Metadata extraction
Thumbnail generation
FFmpeg transcoding

AAC
✓
✓
−
−
*

MIDI
✓
✓
−
−
*

3GP
✓
✓
−
−
*

MP3
✓
✓
✓
−
*

MPG
✓
✓
−
−
*

OGA
✓
✓
−
−
*

OGG
✓
✓
−
−
*

RA
✓
✓
−
−
*

WAV
✓
✓
−
−
*

WMA
✓
✓
−
−
*

DVI
✓
✓
−
*
*

FLV
✓
✓
−
*
*

M4V
✓
✓
−
*
*

MPEG
✓
✓
−
*
*

OGV
✓
✓
−
*
*

MOV
✓
✓
−
*
*

WMV
✓
✓
−
*
*

SWF
✓
✓
−
−
−

Supported archive formats

The supported archive formats and the applicability of the common DAM workflows, is covered in the following table.

Formats
Storage
Versioning
Workflow
Publishing
Access Control
Dynamic Media Delivery

TGZ
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
−

JAR
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
−

RAR
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
−

TAR
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
−

ZIP
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓

Other supported formats

The applicability of the usual DAM functionalities for a few specific file formats is described below.

Formats
Storage
Versioning
Workflow
Publishing
Access Control
Dynamic Media Delivery

SVG
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
−

CSS
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓

VTT
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓

XML
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓

JavaScript (when configured with own delivery domain)
−
−
−
−
−
✓

NOTE

Uploading and distributing JavaScript files may or may not be safe. If necessary, you can use overlays to prevent users from uploading JS files.

Supported MIME types

By default, Experience Manager detects the file type using the file extension. Experience Manager can detect it from the contents of the files. For latter, select Detect MIME from content option in Day CQ DAM Mime Type Service in the Experience Manager Web Console.

A list of supported MIME types is available in CRXDE Lite at /conf/global/settings/cloudconfigs/dmscene7/jcr:content/mimeTypes.

File extension
MIME type/ Internet media type
Default jobParam value
Allowed jobParam value

Image
image/s7asset
usmAmount=1.75&usmRadius=0.2
&usmThreshold=2&usmMonochrome=0&
The default jobParam applies to all image MIME type assets.

• knockoutBackgroundOptions
• manualCropOptions
• autoColorCropOptions
• autoTransparentCropOptions
• colorManagementOptions
• autoSetCreationOptions
• emailSetting
• xmpKeywords
• unsharpMaskOptions

3G2
video/3gpp2

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

3GP
video/3gpp

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

AAC
audio/x-aac

AFM
application/x-font-type1

AI
application/postscript
aiprocess=Rasterize&airesolution=150
&aicolorspace=Auto&aialpha=false

• postScriptOptions
• illustratorOptions

AIFF
audio/x-aiff

AVI
video/x-msvideo

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

BMP
image/bmp

CSS
text/css

DOC
application/msword

EPS

• application/postscript
• application/eps
• application/x-eps
• image/eps
• image/x-eps

F4V
video/x-f4v

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

FLA
application/x-shockwave-flash

FLV
video/x-flv

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

FPX
image/vnd.fpx

GIF
image/gif

ICC
application/vnd.iccprofile

ICM
application/vnd.iccprofile

INDD
application/x-indesign

JPEG
image/jpeg

JPG
image/jpeg

M2V
video/mpeg

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

M4V
video/x-m4v

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

MOV
video/quicktime

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

MP3
audio/mpeg

MP4
video/mp4

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

MPEG
video/mpeg

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

MPG
video/mpeg

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

MTS
model/vnd.mts

OGV
video/ogg

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

OTF
application/x-font-otf

PDF
application/pdf
pdfprocess=Rasterize&resolution=150
&colorspace=Auto&pdfbrochure=false
&keywords=false&links=false
pdfOptions

PFB
application/x-font-type1

PFM
application/x-font-type1

PICT
image/x-pict

PNG
image/png

PPT
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

PS
application/postscript
psprocess=Rasterize&psresolution=150
&pscolorspace=Auto&psalpha=false
&psextractsearchwords=false
&aiprocess=Rasterize&airesolution=150
&aicolorspace=Auto&aialpha=false

• postScriptOptions
• [illustratorOptions](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/dynamic-media-developer-resources/image-production-api/data-types/r-illustrator-options.html

PSD
image/vnd.adobe.photoshop
process=None&layerNaming=Layername
&anchor=Center&createTemplate=false
&extractText=false&extendLayers=false

• photoshopOptions
• photoshopLayerOptions

RTF
application/rtf

SVG
image/svg+xml

SWF
application/x-shockwave-flash

TAR
application/x-tar

TIF / TIFF
image/tiff

TTC
application/x-font-ttf

TTF
application/x-font-ttf

VOB
video/dvd

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

VTT
text/vtt

WAV
audio/x-wav

WEBM
video/webm

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

WMA
audio/x-ms-wma

WMV
video/x-ms-wmv

ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS

XLS
application/vnd.ms-excel

ZIP
application/zip

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.

In addition to the above functionality, consider the following:

Dynamic Media – Supported raster image formats

‡ 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.

• The support for EPS files applies to raster images only. For example, thumbnail generation for EPS vector images is not supported by default. To add support, configure ImageMagick. To integrate third-party tools to enable additional capabilities, see Command line based Media Handler.

• To use Dynamic Media to preview and generate dynamic renditions for EPS files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.

• For EPS files, metadata writeback is supported in PostScript Document Structuring Convention (PS-Adobe) version 3.0 or later.

Dynamic Media – Unsupported raster image formats

The following list describes the subtypes of raster image file formats that are not supported in Dynamic Media.

See also Detect unsupported file formats for Dynamic Media Knowledge Base article.

• 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 formats

Dynamic Media supports the following 3D formats.

See also Working with 3D assets in Dynamic Media.

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 and iOS devices.

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