--- title: "Supported formats" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/PLAYER/124749743/Supported%20formats" format: markdown --- This page provides an overview of the file formats supported by Chaos Player.   ## **Video file formats** --- | **Extension** | **Read** | **Write** | **Description** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **MP4** | :check_mark: | :check_mark: | Chaos Player reads any MP4 file supported by FFMPEG. **MP4 output** always encodes** H264 - MPEG-4 AVC** files without audio. | | **AIVF** | :check_mark: | :check_mark: | **Chaos Player**'s proprietary audio-video format. | | **AVI ** | :check_mark: | :cross_mark: | Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved format is supported as read-only. Chaos Player does not support writing to *.avi* files. | | **WEBM** | :check_mark: | :check_mark: | WebM is an audio-visual media format. Note that rendering to WebM will not encode audio. | | **WMV** | :check_mark: | :check_mark: | Microsoft's Windows Media Video format. Note that rendering to WMV will not encode audio. | | **MOV ** | :check_mark: | :cross_mark: | The QuickTime video file format is supported as read-only. Chaos Player does not support writing to *.mov* files. | | **YUV** | :check_mark: | :cross_mark: | The digital, color-difference component video picture format is supported as read-only. | > ℹ️ Video file formats are a convenient way to render your Chaos Player composition to. > ℹ️ > ℹ️ However, video file playback may be slow and it is recommended to use Chaos Player for image sequence playback.   ## **Image file formats** --- | **Extension** | **Read** | **Write** | **Description** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **OpenEXR ** | :check_mark: | :check_mark: | Chaos Player supports Multi-channel and multi-part OpenEXR images as inputs. Chaos Player only supports writing to single-channel EXR files. | | **VRIMG** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :cross_mark: | **Chaos V-Ray**'s proprietary image format is supported as read-only. | | **PNG** | :check_mark: | :check_mark: | The Portable Network Graphics format. | | **JPEG** | :check_mark: | :check_mark: | The Joint Photographic Experts Group digital image file interchange format. | | **TIFF** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :check_mark: | The Tagged Image File Format. | | **TGA** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :check_mark: | The Truevision TARGA raster graphics format. | | **SGI** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :check_mark: | The Silicon Graphics Image format for raster graphics. | | **CIN** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :cross_mark: | The Kodak Cineon digital film format is supported as read-only. | | **DPX** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :check_mark: | The Digital Picture Exchange format, extended from CIN. | | **BMP** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :cross_mark: | Microsoft's Bitmap image files are supported as read-only. | | **DDS** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :cross_mark: | Microsoft's Direct Draw Surface format is only supported as read-only. | | **HDR** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :cross_mark: | Radiance HDR image files are supported as read-only. | | **PIC** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :cross_mark: | The PICtor raster image format is supported as read-only. | | **PSD** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :cross_mark: | Chaos Player flattens all layers when reading Adobe's Photoshop Document format. This format is supported as read-only. | | **RLA** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :cross_mark: | The Wavefront RLA raster image format is supported as read-only. | | **RPF** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :cross_mark: | The Raster Product Format is supported as read-only. | | **TX/TEX** | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | :cross_mark: | Tiled mip-mapped .tx/.tex TIFF files are supported as read-only. | > ℹ️ VRIMG is a Chaos proprietary file format used by the V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB) to store the rendered image incrementally (bucket by bucket) while rendering in full floating-point format, with all available render elements. It is used as a render output but it is not recommended to use it as a texture file format. VRIMG contains metadata, i.e. render statistics. It supports dynamic bucket size. > ℹ️ > ℹ️ VRIMG can be saved just as any other image format – it can either be the render output format or it can be saved from the VFB. ## **Audio file formats** --- | **Extension** | **Read** | **Write** | **Description** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **WAV** | :check_mark: | :check_mark: | IBM and Microsoft's Waveform Audio File Format can be used to extract the audio from a video file or replace the audio track in composition. |   ## **Project interoperability formats** --- | **Extension** | **Read** | **Write** | **Description** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **NK** | :cross_mark: | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | The Foundry Nuke scene script format. Chaos Player can export its composition to a Nuke script. | | **JSX** | :cross_mark: | ![image](media://9b6c9790-4207-4fb6-b449-e6ae097744da) | Adobe's After Effects project format. Chaos Player can export its composition to After Effects. |   ## **Project composition formats** --- | **Extension** | **Read** | **Write** | **Description** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **CHPCOMP** | :check_mark: | :check_mark: | Chaos Player's composition contains every brush or text mark-up, and every cut, edit, color correction etc. made in a Chaos Player session. | | **CHPCMD** | :check_mark: | :check_mark: | Chaos Player's Command-Line file can be used to automate any operation in Chaos Player. Read more about [command-line support](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PLAYER/pages/124618955). |