Almost all file types are supported by iconik for storage and retrieval. Certain media file-types have particular support for transcoding, metadata extraction and previewing from within iconik. A guide to what is supported is listed below.
To support creating previews of filetypes that we don’t natively support it’s possible to integrate with third-party transcoders, or using our watchfolder transcoder support with the iconik Storage Gateway.
It is important to note that we have tested the formats below but due to differences in Transcoder and Codec implementation that it’s possible for certain media types to potentially have problems. Please test your media in iconik
If you are using iconik Storage Gateway or iconik Edge Transcoder it’s important to keep it up-to date to get the latest file types supported.
Video Files
We try and create previews and extract metadata for all video types. Here is an example of container types and codecs:
Video Wrappers/Containers
| Extension | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AVI | Audio Video Interleave | Please check the codec support list below for the codecs |
| MKV | Matroska | |
| MPEG / M2V / MPG / TS | Motion Picture Expert Group | |
| MP4 / M4V | MPEG-4 Part 14 | |
| MOV / QT | Apple Quicktime | Please check codec support |
| OGG | ||
| MXF | Material eXchange Format | DV-DIF OP1a, MPEG-2 OP1a |
| WebM | VP9, and Opus Audio |
- RED (needs special configuration)
Use external transcoders, as explained in the text above, for: MXF, DV-DIF, OP1a, RED, GXF, BRAW & CRM
Video Codec Support
| ShortName | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Animation | QuickTime Animation / Quicktime RLE | |
| AVC-Intra | MXF wrapped AVC-Intra 100 | |
| Cineform | GoPro Cineform | 12bit RGB and 10bit YUV |
| DNxHD | Avid DNxHD | |
| DNxHR | Avid DNxHR | HQ, HQX, LB, SQ, 444 |
| DV | Digital Video | DV25, DV50, DVCAM |
| DVCPPRO HD | Digital Video | |
| H.264 | MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding (MPEG-4 AVC) | |
| HEVC / H.265 | High Efficiency Video Coding / MPEG-H Part 2 | |
| IMX | MPEG IMX | |
| MPEG-2 | Motion Picture Expert Group (H.222/H.262) | i-Frame, LGOP, D10, XDCAM-EX, XDCAM-HD422, XD-CAM-EX |
| ProRes | Apple ProRes | 422, 422 HQ, 422 Proxy, 4444 |
| VP-8 | ||
| VP-9 | ||
| AV1 | AOMedia Video 1 |
- Apple ProRes supported through 3rd-party transcoders
If you have a specific codec and format that you need to support for your production, please upload a test file to check support
Audio Files
| Extension | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 3g2 | 3GPP2 file format | |
| aac | Advanced Audio Coding | AAC LC 44.1 Khz |
| aif / aiff / aifc | Audio Interchange File Format | |
| ape | Monkey Audio | |
| au | Sun Microsystem audio format | |
| flac | Free Lossless Audio Codec | 16bit, 24bit |
| m4a | MPEG-4 Part 14 | Apple Lossless codec |
| m4b | MPEG-4 Part 14 | Apple Audio Book codec |
| mp2 | MPEG-1 Audio Layer II | |
| mp3 | MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) | |
| mp4 | MPEG-4 wrapper audio only | AAC Codec and AAC VBR |
| ogg | OGG Vorbis | Xiph codec, 16bit, 24bit, 32bit, 44.1Khz, 88.2Khz, 96Khz, 192Khz |
| wav | Windows Audio File Format | 16bit, 24bit and 32bit |
Please note that due to the amount of different configurations of channels, sample rates, bit-depths, encodings and profiles that not all combinations might work. Please test iconik with the files that you want to support if they are not stereo 16bit, 44.1Khz
Known formats not supported: Sound Designer 2 and CAF (Core Audio Format).
Image Files
| Extension | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AI | Adobe Illustrator | |
| AVIF | AV1 Image File Format | |
| BMP | Bitmap | 16bit, 24bit, 32bit |
| EPS | Encapsulated PostScript | |
| EXR / OpenEXR | Deep raster format | |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group Format | |
| JPF | JPEG 2000 | |
| MPO | Multi-Picture Format | As one asset |
| PCX | Personal Computer eXchange | |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | |
| PSB | Large Document Format | |
| PSD | Photoshop Document | |
| TIFF / TIF | Tagged Image File Format | |
| WEBP | WebP Google raster image format |
Document Formats
These are document formats that have special support for viewing.
| Extension | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Portable Document Format |
Project Files
Currently iconik stores information about Adobe Premiere Projects and the actual Project File itself.
| Extension | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| pproj | Adobe Premiere Project File Format | Can also be opened via the iconik Adobe Panel |
Other project files can be uploaded, stored and downloaded
Captions / Subtitle Files
| Extension | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| srt | SubRip Text | |
| vtt | Web Video Text Tracks | |
| stl | EBU-STL | |
| scc | Scenarist Closed Captions | |
| IMSC | Internet Media Subtitles and Captions | |
| TTML | Timed Text Markup Language |
Other file types
All other digital files can be uploaded, stored, moved and downloaded from iconik.