File formats

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Private records

These are records we expect to transfer from recordkeeping systems in our first large donation of digital materials.

Mac Server

System/software	Formats
Adobe Premiere Pro	Video formats: Advanced Authoring Format (.aaf) Macromedia Flash Video (.afv) Microsoft AVI and DV AVI (.avi) Animated Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) MPEG-1, MPEG-1-VCD (.mpg, .m2v) MPEG-2, MPEG-2-DVD, (.mpg, .m2v) RealMedia (.rmvb) QuickTime (video) (.mov) Windows Media (.wmv) Audio formats: Microsoft AVI and DV AVI (.avi) MPG (MP3) PCM Dolby(c) Digital/AC3 WMA RealMedia QuickTime Windows Audio Waveform (.wav) Still image formats: Targa (.tgf/tga) Tagged Image File Format (.tiff) Windows Bitmap (.bmp) Sequence formats: Graphics Interchange Format sequence Targa sequence Tagged Image File Format sequence Windows Bitmap sequence
Adobe Illustrator	Adobe Illustrator (.ai) Encapsulated Postscript File Format (.eps) JPEG File Interchange Format (.jpg)
iPhoto Library	RAW camera files (see Nikon Electronic Format) JPEG File Interchange Format (.jpg) Tagged Image File Format (.tiff)

Windows SharePoint Server

System/software	Formats
Microsoft Office	MS Word MS Excel MS Access MS PowerPoint
Geographic Information System(s)	Graphic export formats only: Portable Document Format (.pdf) and Portable Network Graphics (.png)
Sharepoint lists	MS Excel (.xls) or XML
Issue Tracker (daily issue summaries from organizational functions)	Export format(s)? Likely a Sharepoint list (.xls)
Sharepoint sites	XML?

JetStor device for A/V Stores

System/software	Formats
Quicktime Pro	QuickTime (.mov)
Final Cut Pro	QuickTime (.mov)
Media B-rolls	XML readable by Adobe Premiere and Avid

Windows Server

Same as Mac Server and Sharepoint Server (mainly working copies of documents, except for A/V project management)

Outlying systems

All outlying systems data will be exported to Sharepoint lists or MS Excel spreadsheets.

Public Records from TRIM

Formats

• Audio Video Interleave (AVI)
• Bitmap (BMP)
• MS Word (DOC)
• MS Word Office Open XML with Macros Enabled(DOCM)
• Microsoft Open Office XML (DOCX)
• Plain text graph descriptions(DOT)
• Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
• Hypertext Markup Language(HTM and HTML)
• Adobe InDesign Document (INDD)
• JPEG, Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG)
• Javascript Source Code (JS)
• MS Access Database (MDB)
• MS Project File (MPP)
• MS Outlook (MSG)
• Portable Document Format (PDF)
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
• MS PowerPoint (PPT)
• MS PowerPoint Office Open XML (PPTX)
• Report (RPT)
• Rich Text (RTF)
• Tagged Image File Format (TIFF or TIF)
• TRIM Reference File (TR5)
• Text(TXT)
• Virtual Mailbox (VMBX - what TRIM converts emails to)
• MS Visio Drawing (VSD)
• Windows Media Video (WMV)
• Word Perfect Document (WPD)
• MS Windows Media Redirector (WVX)
• MS Excel (XLS)
• MS Excel Office Open XML (XLSX)
• MS Excel Template (XLT)
• Data Compression file (ZIP)

Format	Also known as	File extension(s)
[Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform]	Adobe XMP	.xmp
[Advanced Stream Redirector file]	Microsoft ASX Playlist	.asx
[Batch file]	MS-DOS batch file MS-Windows batch file	.bat
[Microsoft Windows Bitmap Image file]		.bmp
[Cascading Stylesheet]		.css
[Comma Separated Values file]		.csv
[Command Source Code]		.cmd
[Document type definition]		.dtd
[Encapsulated PostScript]		.eps
[Extensible Markup Language]		.xml
[Extensible Stylesheet Language]		.xsl
[GNU zip file]	GZIP file	.gz
[Graphics Interchange Format]	GIF	.gif
[Hypertext Markup Language ]		.html .htm
[Microsoft Icon file]		.ico
[JavaScript file]	JavaScript programming files JScript files	.js
[Java archive file]		.jar
[Joint Photographic Experts Group]	JPEG	.jpg
[Microsoft Excel Workbook]	Microsoft Excel Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF)	.xls
[Microsoft Office Word]	MS-WORD	.doc
[Moving Picture Experts Group file]	MPEG	.mpg
[Perl script]		.pl
[Portable Document Format]		.pdf
[Portable Network Graphics]		.png
[Python script file]		.py
[Quicktime (video)]	MOV QT	.mov
[Real Media Metafile]		.ram
[Rich Text Format]		.rtf
[Shockwave Flash file]		.swf
[SQL code]		.sql
[Tagged Image File Format]		.tiff, .tif
[Windows Media Player file]		.wmv
[Visual Basic Scripting file]	C Source Code Microsoft Active Scripting language VBScript	.vbs
[ZIP file]	Zip archive file	.zip