Supported Formats

The following list shows all video output, file formats and codecs supported by Ventuz.

SDI

Format Refresh Rate (Hz) Details Standard Physical Connection Colorspace
NTSC 59.94 720x487 interlaced SMPTE_259M SDI-SD BT601
PAL 50.00 720x576 interlaced SMPTE_259M SDI-SD BT601
720p 60.00 59.94 50.00 1280x720 progressive SMPTE_296M SDI-HD BT709
1080i 60.00 59.94 50.00 1920x1080 interlaced SMPTE_274M SDI-HD BT709
1080p 30 29.97 25 24 23.98 1920x1080 progressive SMPTE_274M SDI-HD BT709
1080p 60.00 59.94 50.00 1920x1080 progressive SMPTE_274M SDI-3G (Level A&B), SDI-HD Dual Link BT709
2160p 30 29.97 25 24 23.98 3840x2160 progressive Blackmagic 6G or SDI-3G Dual Link BT709
4k DCI 25.00 24.00 23.98 4096x2160 progressive Blackmagic 6G or SDI-3G Dual Link BT709
2160p 30 29.97 25 24 23.98 3840x2160 progressive -/- 4xSDI-HD in quarters BT709
4k DCI 25.00 24.00 23.98 4096x2160 progressive -/- 4xSDI-HD in quarters BT709
2160p 60.00 59.94 50.00 3840x2160 progressive -/- 4xSDI-3G in quarters BT709
4k DCI 60 59.94 50 48 47.95 4096x2160 progressive -/- 4xSDI-3G in quarters BT709

A list of the supported video devices with product specific information can be found here. Not all devices support all video formats


Videoplayback

This list provides an overview of all video container formats and their supported audio and video codecs.
Note that the supported codecs may vary depending on the operating machine.

File Format avi, wmv, wma, asf mov mkv ogg flv mp4 mpeg, mpg f4v ts, m2ts vob webm
Video Codecs ffv1
flashsv
ffvhuff
aasc
flic
flv1
h261
h263
h264
huffyuv
jegls
lagarith
loco
mjpeg
mpeg1video
mpeg2video
mpeg4
msmpeg4v2
msmpeg4v3
msvideo1
mszh
r10k
r210
rpza
svq1
svq3
theora
tscc
v210
vc1
vcr1
vp3
vp6
vp8
wmv1
wmv2
wmv3
zlib
zmbv
ffvhuff
flashsv
flic
flv1
h261
h263
h264
huffyuv
jpegls
lagarith
loco
mjpeg
mpeg1video
mpeg2video
mpeg4
msmpeg4v2
msmpeg4v3
msvideo1
mszh
qdraw
qtrle
r10k
r210
smc
svq1
svq3
theora
tscc
v210
vcr1
vp3
vp6
vp8
wmv1
wmv2
wmv3
zlib
zmbv
ffv1
ffvhuff
flashsv
flic
flv1
h261
h263
h264
huffyuv
jpegls
lagarith
loco
mjpeg
mpeg1video
mpeg2video
mpeg4
msmpeg4v2
msmpeg4v3
msvideo1
mszh
r10k
r210
svq3
theora
v210
vc1
vcr1
vp3
vp6
vp8
wmv1
wmv2
wmv3
zlib
zmbv
theoraflv1
vp6
h264
mjpeg
mpeg1video
mpeg2video
mpeg4
mpeg1video
mpeg2video
mpeg4
h264h264
mpeg1video
mpeg2video
mpeg4
mpeg1video
mpeg2video
mpeg4
vp8
Audio Codecs aac
ac3
adpcm
flac
libvorbis
mp2
mp3
pcm
wmapro
wmav1
wmav2
wmavoice
aac
ac3
alac
flac
libvorbis
mac3
mac6
mp2
mp3
pcm
qdm2
wmapro
wmav1
wmav2
aac
ac3
adpcm
alac
flac
libvorbis
mp2
mp3
pcm
qdm2
truehd
wmapro
wmav1
wmav2
wmavoice
flac
libvorbis
aac
mp3
aac
libvorbis
mp2
mp3
mp2
mp3
aacaac
ac3
mp2
mp3
truehd(m2ts only)
ac3
mp2
mp3
libvorbis

Alpha Channel Support

The following list shows all video codecs that have an alpha channel and the supporting container formats.

File Formats avi, wmv, wma, asfmovmkv
Video Codec huffyuv
ffv1
ffvhuff
lagarith
qtrle
huffyuv
ffvhuff
lagarith
huffyuv
ffv1
ffvhuff
lagarith

Please note that those codecs also support colorspaces without alpha channel. Always make sure your movie file uses a colorspace supporting an alpha channel (e.g. RGBA, ARGB etc.).


Audioplayback

This list shows all file formats and codecs supported by the Sound Node and Audio Clip Node.

File Format aac aiff au flac m4a mp3 opus wav
Audio Codecs aac
ac3
mp2
mp3
pcmpcmflacaac
ac3
alac
mp3flac
libvorbis
adpcm
flac
mp2
mp3
pcm
wmav1
wmav2
wmapro
wmavoice

Images and Textures

Image Loader Nodes

All image codecs that are supported by the Image Loader Nodes are listed below.

Codec tiff bmp gif msrle png tga raw dds
Supports Alpha Channel?

Data

Microsoft Excel File Formats

Excel Nodes

Basically Ventuz supports all current Excel Workbook formats: .xlsx as well as the older .xls-format.

An exception to this are Workbooks that were modified by Microsoft Office for Macintosh. Those files won't be loaded properly into Ventuz scenes.


Geometries

The following file formats can be imported into Ventuz to create complex geometries.

DAE (COLLADA)

The COLLADA Digital Asset Exchange format was introduced by Sony Computer Entertainment and is now maintained by the Khronos Group. Collada defines an open XML-based database scheme that enables 3-D authoring applications to freely exchange digital assets without loss of information, enabling multiple software packages to be combined into extremely powerful tool chains.
Currently, all of the important DCC tools have either built-in exporters for the Collada format or there exist third-party plug-ins. Collada is a very powerful and flexible 3D format which seems to be evolving to an industry standard. In addition to common 3D features, the Collada specification supports, amongst others, animations, shaders and physics. In the current version of the Collada importer, Ventuz supports the import of geometry, materials, textures, cameras and animation data. All other Collada features are not supported yet.

At the time of writting Collada 1.5 is not supported


OBJ

The OBJ file format was introduced by Alias/Wavefront and is similar in status to the 3DS format, in that it is somewhat antiquated and unreliable. The OBJ file only stores geometry information. The material and texture properties are stored in a separate file, it is the .MTL file. This file is referenced from the OBJ file. If your imported model is missing materials and textures, check if the according .MTL file exists.

RTG

The RTG file format is a proprietary format of the Maya 3D software package. Its advantage is the possibility to store the pivot information for any geometry in a 3D scene. This gives you the ability to build complex hierarchical models and import them in Ventuz. The hierarchy and the rotation pivots are preserved. This makes it easy to animate such complex models.

X

The X file format belongs to the Microsoft DirectX API. This is the API that was used to build the Ventuz graphics engine.