Exif Tool - Supported File Types

Supported File Types

ExifTool can Read, Write and Create files in the following formats:

File Type Support Description
3FR R Hasselblad RAW (TIFF-based)
3G2, 3GP2 R 3rd Gen. Partnership Project 2 audio/video (QuickTime-based)
3GP, 3GPP R 3rd Gen. Partnership Project audio/video (QuickTime-based)
ACR R American College of Radiology ACR-NEMA (DICOM-like)
AFM, ACFM, AMFM R Adobe (Composite/Multiple Master) Font Metrics
AI, AIT R/W Adobe Illustrator (Template, PS or PDF)
AIFF, AIF, AIFC R Audio Interchange File Format
APE R Monkey's Audio
ARW R/W Sony Alpha RAW (TIFF-based)
ASF R Microsoft Advanced Systems Format
AVI R Audio Video Interleaved (RIFF-based)
BMP, DIB R Windows BitMaP / Device Independent Bitmap
BTF, TIFF, TIF R BigTIFF (64-bit Tagged Image File Format)
CHM R Microsoft Compiled HTML format
COS R Capture One Settings (XML-based)
CR2 R/W Canon RAW 2 (TIFF-based)
CRW, CIFF R/W Canon RAW Camera Image File Format (CRW specification)
CS1 R/W Sinar CaptureShop 1-shot RAW (PSD-based)
DCM, DC3, DIC, DICM R DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DCP R/W DNG Camera Profile (DNG-like)
DCR R Kodak Digital Camera RAW (TIFF-based)
DFONT R Macintosh Data Fork Font
DIVX R DivX media format (ASF-based)
DJVU, DJV R DjVu image (AIFF-like)
DNG R/W Digital Negative (TIFF-based)
DOC, DOT R Microsoft Word Document/Template (FPX-like)
DOCX, DOCM R Office Open XML Document (Macro-enabled)
DOTX, DOTM R Office Open XML Document Template (Macro-enabled)
DYLIB R Mac OS X Mach-O executable and library files
DV R Digital Video
DVB R Digital Video Broadcasting (QuickTime-based)
EIP R Capture One Enhanced Image Package (ZIP-based)
EPS, EPSF, PS R/W (Encapsulated) PostScript Format
ERF R/W Epson RAW Format (TIFF-based)
EXE, DLL R DOS/Windows executable and library files
EXIF R/W/C Exchangable Image File Format metadata (TIFF-based)
EXR R Open EXR (Extended Range)
F4A, F4B, F4P, F4V R Adobe Flash Player 9+ Audio/Video (Quicktime-based)
FFF R/W Hasselblad Flexible File Format (TIFF-based)
FLA R Macromedia/Adobe Flash project (FPX-like)
FLAC R Free Lossless Audio Codec
FLV R Flash Video
FPX R FlashPix image
GIF R/W Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
GZ, GZIP R GNU ZIP compressed archive
HDP, WDP R/W Windows HD Photo / Media Photo (TIFF-based)
HDR R Radiance RGBE (Red Green Blue Exponent) High Dynamic-Range
HTML, HTM, XHTML R (Extensible) HyperText Markup Language
ICC, ICM R/W/C International Color Consortium color profile
IDML R Adobe InDesign Markup Language (ZIP/XML-based)
IIQ R/W Phase One Intelligent Image Quality RAW (TIFF-based)
IND, INDD, INDT R/W Adobe InDesign Document/Template (XMP metadata only)
INX R Adobe InDesign Interchange (XML-based, XMP metadata only)
ITC R iTunes Cover Flow artwork
J2C, JPC R JPEG 2000 codestream
JP2, JPM, JPX R/W JPEG 2000 image
JPEG, JPG R/W Joint Photographic Experts Group image (see table below)
K25 R Kodak DC25 RAW (TIFF-based)
KDC R Kodak Digital Camera RAW (TIFF-based)
KEY, KTH R Apple iWork '09 Keynote presentation/Theme
LA R Lossless Audio (RIFF-based)
LNK R Microsoft Shell Link (Windows shortcut)
M2TS, MTS, M2T, TS R MPEG-2 Transport Stream (used for AVCHD video)
M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V R MPEG-4 Audio/Video (Quicktime-based)
MEF R/W Mamiya (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based)
MIE R/W/C Meta Information Encapsulation (MIE specification)
MIFF, MIF R Magick Image File Format
MKA, MKV, MKS R Matroska Audio/Video/Subtitle
MODD R Sony Picture Motion metadata (PLIST-based)
MOS R/W Creo Leaf Mosaic (TIFF-based)
MOV, QT R Apple QuickTime Movie
MP3 R MPEG-1 layer 3 audio (uses ID3 information)
MP4 R Motion Picture Experts Group version 4 (Quicktime-based)
MPC R Musepack Audio
MPEG, MPG, M2V R Motion Picture Experts Group version 1 or 2
MPO R/W Extended Multi-Picture format (JPEG with MPF extensions)
MQV R Sony Mobile QuickTime Video
MRW R/W Minolta RAW
MXF R Material Exchange Format
NEF R/W Nikon (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based)
NMBTEMPLATE R Apple iWork '09 Numbers Template
NRW R/W Nikon RAW (2) (TIFF-based)
NUMBERS R Apple iWork '09 Numbers spreadsheet
ODB, ODC, ODF, ODG,
ODI, ODP, ODS, ODT
R Open Document Database/Chart/Formula/Graphics/
Image/Presentation/Spreadsheet/Text (ZIP/XML-based)
OFR R OptimFROG audio (RIFF-based)
OGG R Ogg Vorbis and Ogg FLAC audio
ORF R/W Olympus RAW Format (TIFF-based)
OTF R Open Type Font
PAC R Lossless Predictive Audio Compression (RIFF-based)
PAGES R Apple iWork '09 Pages document
PDF R/W Adobe Portable Document Format
PEF R/W Pentax (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based)
PFA, PFB R PostScript Font ASCII/Binary
PFM R Printer Font Metrics
PGF R Progressive Graphics File
PICT, PCT R Apple Picture file
PLIST R Apple Property List (XML-based)
PMP R Sony DSC-F1 Cyber-Shot image
PNG, JNG, MNG R/W Portable/JPEG/Multiple-image Network Graphics
PPM, PBM, PGM R/W Portable Pixel/Bit/Gray Map
PPT, PPS, POT R Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation/Slideshow/Template (FPX-like)
POTX, POTM R Office Open XML Presentation Template (Macro-enabled)
PPSX, PPSM R Office Open XML Presentation Slideshow (Macro-enabled)
PPTX, PPTM R Office Open XML Presentation (Macro-enabled)
PSD, PSB R/W PhotoShop Drawing / Large Document
PSP, PSPIMAGE R Paint Shop Pro
QTIF, QTI, QIF R QuickTime Image File
RA R RealAudio
RAF R/W FujiFilm RAW Format
RAM, RPM R RealAudio/Plug-in Metafile
RAR R RAR Archive
RAW R Kyocera Contax N Digital RAW
RAW R/W Panasonic RAW (TIFF-based)
RIFF, RIF R Resource Interchange File Format
RM, RV, RMVB R Real Media/Video (Variable Bitrate)
RSRC R Mac OS Resource
RTF R Rich Text Format
RW2 R/W Panasonic RAW 2 (TIFF-based)
RWL R/W Leica RAW (TIFF-based)
RWZ R Rawzor compressed image
SO R Unix ELF executable and Shared Object files
SR2 R/W Sony RAW 2 (TIFF-based)
SRF R Sony RAW Format (TIFF-based)
SRW R/W Samsung RAW format (TIFF-based)
SVG R Scalable Vector Graphics (XML-based)
SWF R Shockwave Flash
THM R/W Canon Thumbnail (JPEG)
THMX R Office Open XML Theme
TIFF, TIF R/W Tagged Image File Format
TTF, TTC R True Type Font/Collection
VOB R Video Object (MPEG-based)
VRD R/W/C Canon DPP Recipe Data
VSD R Microsoft Visio Drawing (FPX-like)
WAV R Windows digital audio WAVeform (RIFF-based)
WEBM R Google Web Movie (MKV-based)
WEBP R Google Web Picture (RIFF-based)
WMA, WMV R Windows Media Audio/Video (ASF-based)
WV R WavePack lossless audio (RIFF-based)
X3F R/W Sigma/Foveon RAW
XCF R GIMP native image format
XLS, XLT R Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet/Template (FPX-like)
XLSX, XLSM, XLSB R Office Open XML Spreadsheet (Macro-enabled/Binary)
XLTX, XLTM R Office Open XML Spreadsheet Template (Macro-enabled)
XMP R/W/C Extensible Metadata Platform sidecar file
ZIP R ZIP archive

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