17 Jun 2021

Useful Files Extension for Motion Designers & Video Editors

 Hello Internet,

        Here is very useful files Extention explanation for motion designer. In real life, we recognize the file from the icons only but have you have seen its extension? NO! Right? There are lots of files we used every day.  As graphic and motion designers, we deal with lots of files to complete one task. Maybe it would be Images, Vector files, Video template files, etc. So let's understand file extension and it's full form.

Adobe Software's File Extention

  • .aep - After Effects Project File
  • .prproj - Preiere Pro Project File
  • .ai - Illustrator Project File
  • .psd - Photoshop Project File 

Design File Extention

  • .svg - Scalable Vector Graphics
  • .eps - Encapsulated PostScript
  • .sketch  - a SKETCH file is a vector graphics file created by Sketch
  • .cdr - Corel Draw Project File

Image File Extention

  • .png - Portable Network Graphics
  • .jpeg - Joint Photographic Experts Group
  • .tif/tiff  - Tag Image File Format 
  • .gif - Graphics Interchange Format

Video File Extention

  • .mov - QuickTime multimedia file format
  • .mp4 - Common use extension for video, Encoding by h.264
  • .m4v - Is a video container format developed by Apple and is very similar to the MP4 format
  • .avi - Audio Video Interleave

Audio File Extention

  • .mp3 - Standard Audio Format
  • .wav  - Waveform Audio
I hope that this blog will help you to understand the full form of some useful files.
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