Digital Video File Formats• .AVI - commonly found in

digital cameras.• .MOV - Quicktime - Apple file

format• .WMV - Windows Media File

usually made in MovieMaker• .DV - Native Raw format

from a DV camera (cross platform)

• .REAL - Real Video file format.

• MPEG - Various types of video compression

• FLV - Flash Video, commonly found online

Digital Audio File Formats• .WAV - wave files, low

quality• .MP3 - compressed, medium

quality file format (cross platform)

• .MP4 - mainly used by iTunes

• AIFF - native file format on CDs, very high quality, very large files (cross platform)

• WMA - Windows Media Audio file

Digital Photo File Formats• .GIF - web file format, low

quality, high speed (common)• .JPG - easily compressed,

medium quality (common)• .PNG - new file format seen on

the web for photography, it has lossless compression

• .TIF - professional file format, high quality, scalable (common)

• .EPS - pro image, very scalable, large files

• .RAW - ultra high quality format, very flexible, giant file formats

http://www.wfu.edu/~matthews/misc/graphics/formats/formats.html