Digital video file formats

Supported by

Movie import component

Macintosh file type

'VfW '

File name extensions

.avi

metadata handling

All Microsoft-defined “tombstone” data is transferred to the imported movie’s user data. Metadata fields that have QuickTime equivalents are mapped as follows: 'ICOP' maps to kUserDataTextCopyright, 'ISBJ' maps to kUserDataTextInformation, 'INAM' maps to kUserDataTextFullName, 'ICRD' maps to '©day', 'IMED' maps to '©fmt', 'ISRC' maps to '©src'. Where no QuickTime equivalent exists, the metadata item’s four-character code is modified by replacing the initial I with the symbol ©. All other characters remain unchanged.

Software required

QuickTime 3