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About import file formats

Director can import files in all the formats listed in the following table. For information on additional file formats Director may support, see the Director Support Center Web site.

Type of file | Supported formats
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Animation and multimedia | Flash movies, animated GIF, PowerPoint presentations, Director movies, Director external cast files
Image | BMP, GIF, JPEG, LRG (xRes), Photoshop 3.0 (or later), MacPaint, PNG, TIFF, PICT, Targa
Multiple-image file | Windows only: FLC, FLI Macintosh only: PICS, Scrapbook
Sound | AIFF, WAV, MP3 audio, Shockwave Audio, Sun AU, uncompressed and IMA compressed Macintosh only: System 7 sounds
Video | QuickTime 2, 3 and 4; AVI
Text | RTF, HTML, ASCII (often called Text Only), Lingo scripts
Palette | PAL, Photoshop CLUT, Microsoft Palette