Supported QuickTime File Codecs
 
 
 

Backdraft Conform supports import of QuickTime® files encoded with any of the following codecs.

NoteQuickTime files exported from QuickTime Pro in Drop-Frame mode may be improperly truncated. This will result in the video and audio frames not matching when imported into Backdraft Conform.
NoteQuickTime PhotoJPEG files can only be imported. You cannot soft-import QuickTime PhotoJPEG files.

 

Broadcast CODEC CODEC Flag Comment
Component Y’CbCr 10-bit 4:4:4 v410 10-bit Packed
Component Y’CbCr 10-bit 4:2:2 v210 10-bit Packed Blackmagic or AJA-Kona compatible
Component Y’CbCr 8-bit 4:4:4 v308 8-bit Planar
Component Y’CbCrA 8-bit 4:4:4:4 v408 8-bit Planar
Component Video yuv2 8-bit Packed 4:2:2 Blackmagic or AJA-Kona compatible
8-bit Packed YUV 4:2:2 2vuy  
DV 25 NTSC dvc Although the specifications allow the DV format to be field 1 or 2, the industry standard is "bottom first". Thus, before exporting to Backdraft Conform, ensure that the clip is Field 2. Reformat, if necessary.
DV 25 PAL dvcp, dvpp  
DVCPRO 50 NTSC dv5n  
DVCPRO 50 PAL dv5p  
DVCPRO HD dvh1  
DNxHD avdn 8 bits: 36, 145, 220 (and variants)

10 bits: 220x (and variants)

IMX mxn3, mxn4, mxn5 30, 40, 50

 

File CODEC CODEC Flag Comment
PhotoJPEG RTJ0 RT PhotoJPEG compatible
MJPEG MJPG, mjpg, mjpa, mjpb, JPEG, jpeg, dmb1, AVDJ JPEG compatible
PNG png Portable Network Graphic sequence (no alpha support)
PNGA pngalpha Portable Network Graphic sequence (with alpha support)
RGB Uncompressed raw No alpha support
RGBA Uncompressed rawalpha With alpha support
TGA tga TARGA

 

Web CODEC CODEC Flag Comment
MPEG-1 mpg1, MPG1, pim1, PIM1  
MPEG-4 mp4v; DivX®; DIV1; div1; MP4S;M4S2; m4s2; xvid; XVID; XviD; DX50; dx50; DIVX; MP4V  
MSMpeg 4v3 (DivX) DIV1, div1, MPG4, mpg4, DIV2, div2, MP42, mp42, DIV3, div3, DIV4, div4, DIV5, div5, DIV6, div6, MPG3, mpg3, MP43, mp43, AP41, ap41, MJPG  
Quicktime Planar RGB 8BPS  
Apple® Video rpza  
Apple Graphics smc  
Apple Animation rle With alpha support
Cinepak cvid  
H.264 avc1  

 

Audio CODEC CODEC Flag Comment
IMA 4:1 ima4  
Raw 8-bit audio rawaudio  
Twos twos 16-bit PCM (Big Endian)
Ulaw ulaw  
Sowt sowt 16-bit PCM (Little Endian)
A-law 2:1 alaw  
16-bit PCM in16  
Linear PCM (QT 7) lpcm  
Ogg Vorbis (qt4l compatible) vorbis  
Ogg Vorbis (qtcomponents compatible) vorbis_qt  
MPEG-2 Layer 2 Audio mp2  
QDM2 Audio qdm2  
Apple lossless alac  
McRowsoft ADPCM adpcm (ms)  
ADPCM ima WAV ima adpcm (wav)