Photoshop

Supported video and image sequence formats (Photoshop Extended)

In Photoshop Extended, you can open video files and image sequences in the following formats.

QuickTime video formats

  • MPEG‑1

  • MPEG‑4

  • MOV

  • AVI

  • FLV from QuickTime is supported if you have Adobe Flash 8 installed.

  • MPEG‑2 is supported if an MPEG‑2 encoder is installed on your computer.

Image sequence formats

  • BMP

  • DICOM

  • JPEG

  • OpenEXR

  • PNG

  • PSD

  • Targa

  • TIFF

  • Cineon and JPEG 2000 are supported if the plug‑ins are installed.

    For more information on plug‑ins and how to install them, see also Plug‑ins.

Note: In Photoshop Extended, you can select multiple single-layer DICOM files and open them in a video layer (like opening an image sequence). See DICOM files (Photoshop Extended).

Color mode and bit depth

Video layers can contain files in the following color modes and bits per channel (bpc):

  • Grayscale: 8, 16, or 32 bpc

  • RGB: 8, 16, or 32 bpc

  • CMYK: 8 or 16 bpc

  • Lab: 8 or 16 bpc

    For a video on working with video layers, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0027.