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315 Extensions, No Conversion Step
A redaction tool that needs you to convert a file first has moved the work rather than removed it. The awkward formats are exactly the ones that arrive from a decommissioned camera system or a twenty-year-old archive.
What Format Support Covers
| Content type | Formats |
|---|---|
| Image | 187 |
| Document | 63 |
| Video | 44 |
| Miscellaneous | 13 |
| Audio | 11 |
| Total | 315 distinct extensions |
Each format carries its MIME type, content-type classification, rendering engine and file signature.
How Format Support Works
Three rendering paths run underneath:
- The native pipeline for video, audio and web-native images
- ImageMagick for the long tail of raster formats, which is where most of the 187 image extensions live
- A document engine for office, CAD, email and page-description formats
Video and audio are transcoded to streaming renditions on ingest. Images and documents are rendered for in-browser viewing without the originating application, so a CAD file or an obscure raster format is reviewable by someone who does not have the software that made it.
DICOM is handled as medical imaging rather than as a generic image, preserving study and series structure. It has its own page.
Configuration
The accepted format list is managed per portal, alongside a separate restricted-extension blocklist that refuses types outright. A deployment that should never accept executables says so once.
Where It Matters
- Body camera footage — legacy archives from decommissioned vendor systems
- CCTV and surveillance — proprietary camera output
- eDiscovery — mixed production sets nobody curated in advance
What Format Support Does Not Do
- Support means ingest, store and serve. Transcoding, in-browser preview and AI eligibility are stated on the capability that performs the operation, not inherited from this list.
- Upload types are governed per portal by the accepted list and the restricted-extension blocklist, so what a given deployment accepts may be narrower than what the platform supports.
How Format Support Is Evaluated
- 315 distinct extensions across video, audio, image, document and miscellaneous types.
- 187 image formats, which is the figure that separates a real format list from a marketing one.
- Documents and images render in-browser without the originating application.
- Upload types are governed per portal by an accepted list and a restricted-extension blocklist.
Check Your Awkward Format
Name the extension. We will tell you whether it ingests, previews and redacts, or only some of those.