AuthorScript Video SD supports a wide variety of source files for project assets, transcoding the files for video, audio, and stills into formats that are compatible with the target logical format (e.g. DVD-Video).
- Video:
- 3GPP/3rd Generation Partnership Project (.3gp)
- Advanced Systems Format (.asf)
- AVI/Audio Visual Interleave (.avi)
- Digital Video (.dv)
- DirectShow Editing Services (.xlt)
- DivX (.divx)
- DVR-MS/Microsoft Digital Video Recording (.dvr, .dvr-ms) - requires optional install
- Flash Video (.flv)
- H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (extension depends on container file)
- Internet Video Recording/Real Player (.ivr)
- MPEG-1 (.mpeg, .mpg, .m1v, mpe, .mpv, .vbs)
- MPEG-2 (.m2p, .m2v, .mv2, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpv2)
- MPEG-4 (.mp4)
- QuickTime (.mov, .qt)
- TiVo (.tivo) - requires user install of TiVo decoder
- Video Object (.vob)
- Windows Media Video (.wmv, .wm)
- Audio:
- Audio for Windows (.wav)
- Audio Interchange File Format ( .aif, .aifc, .aiff)
- Audio Visual Interleave (.avi)
- Digital Theatre Systems (.dts)
- Dolby Digital/AC-3 (.ac3)
- MPEG Audio Layer II (.mp2, .mpa, .abs)
- MPEG Audio Layer III (.mp3)
- QuickTime (.mov, .qt)
- SND (.snd)
- Unix Audio Format (.au)
- Windows Media Audio (.wma)
- Still picture:
- Adobe Photoshop (.psd)
- BMP/Windows Bitmap (.bmp)
- CompuServe RLE/Run Length Encoding (.rle)
- GIF/Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
- JPEG/Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe)
- Macintosh PICT (.pct, .pic, .pict)
- PNG/Portable Network Graphics (.png)
- TIFF/Tag Image File Format (.tif, .tiff) - LZW compression is not supported