After Effects Supported File Types

The following lists show the types of file you can import into Adobe After Effects.

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; rasterized)
Note: The alpha channel is imported with SWF files but interactive content is not.
MPEG formats (MPEG, MPE, MPG, M2V, MPA, MP2, M2A, MPV, M2P, M2T, VOB, MOD, AC3, MP4, M4V, M4A)
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)
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)

Adobe Illustrator (AI, AI4, AI5, EPS, PS; continuously rasterized)
Adobe PDF (PDF; first page only; continuously rasterized)
Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
Bitmap (BMP, RLE, DIB)
Camera raw (TIF, CRW, NEF, RAF, ORF, MRW, DCR, MOS, RAW, PEF, SRF, DNG, X3F, CR2, ERF; 16 bpc)
Cineon (CIN, DPX; converts to project’s color bit depth: 8, 16, or 32 bpc)
Discreet RLA/RPF (RLA, RPF; 16 bpc, imports camera data)
EPS
JPEG (JPG, JPE)
Maya camera data (MA)
Maya IFF (IFF, TDI; 16 bpc)
OpenEXR (EXR; 32 bpc)
PBM (8, 16, and 32 bpc)
PCX
PICT (PCT)
Pixar (PXR)
Portable Network Graphics (PNG; 16 bpc)
Radiance (HDR, RGBE, XYZE; 32 bpc)
SGI (SGI, BW, RGB; 16 bpc)
Softimage (PIC)
Targa (TGA, VDA, ICB, VST)
TIFF (TIF)

Note: Still-image formats can be imported individually or as a sequence.