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Importing Media or Files

Along with recording media from a tape source, Avid Xpress Pro can also import numerous types of files. Importing can be as easy as dragging and dropping a file into a bin. When you drag and drop a file into a bin, certain settings related to how it sees the files are applied. These settings have a direct impact on how the imported file will look. The following is a list of the most common files used for importing. To view all the files Avid Xpress Pro can import, visit Avid's website; the list changes over the years .

• Alias A file format owned by Silicon Graphics. Used in animations.

• Chryon This file format was created by the Chryon Corporation. A standard file used throughout the film industry.

• JPEG Created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group, this file format compresses files to very small sizes.

• OMFI This is file format developed by Avid for interchanging media. It can only be used for importing only.

• Photoshop This file was developed by Adobe for its software Photoshop. The advantage of this file is that Avid can import its layers .

• PICT This is the standard file used and developed by Apple Computer.

• PNG This file stands for Portable Network Graphics.

• TARGA Developed by Truevision, Inc.

• TIFF This stands for Tag Image File Format. TIFFs don't experience any generation loss when opened again and again.