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File formats supported for import – Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 User Manual

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File formats supported for import

Adobe Premiere Pro can import a number of video and audio formats. It also supports 10-bit color depth,
sometimes useful for editing standard and high-definition footage.

File format support is provided by plug-in software modules. Most of these software modules are installed automat-
ically with Adobe Premiere Pro.

Adobe Premiere Pro supports four-channel assets. Every processed pixel in its render pipeline uses four channels.
When it processes a three-channel asset, such as DV, HDV, or MPEG footage, as when it has to add an effect or
transition, Adobe Premiere Pro automatically converts it to a four-channel asset.

Supported video and animation file formats

ASF (Netshow, Windows only)

AVI (DV-AVI, Microsoft AVI Type 1 and Type 2)

DLX (Sony VDU File Format Importer, Windows only)

FLM (Filmstrip, Windows only)

GIF (Animated GIF)

MOV (QuickTime)

MP4 (XDCAM EX)

MPEG, MPE, MPG, M2V (MPEG-1, MPEG-2)

MXF (Media eXchange Format; Panasonic DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD, Sony XDCAM HD. )

VOB (Video OBject: DVD files without encryption)

WMV (Windows Media Video, Windows only)

Note: Type 1 AVI clips must be rendered before they can be previewed from a DV device. To render a Type 1 AVI clip,
add it to a sequence in a DV project, and preview it.

Supported audio file formats

Audio Interchange File Format, AIFF (AIF)

Audio Video Interleaved Audio (AVI)

Audio Waveform (WAV)

M4A

MP3

MPEG, MPG

MXF

QuickTime Audio (MOV; requires QuickTime player)

Windows Media Audio (WMA) (Windows only)

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