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Click on an asset to open the right sidebar and view previews, metadata, and available actions.

Understanding the Interface

Interface elements (In Order)

Name and Available Actions - The name of the selected asset and icon buttons for available actions.
Media Player/Preview - Thumbnail and/or player for over 200 file formats.
Metadata Tabs - View metadata and copy it to your clipboard.

Available Actions

Media Support

Thumbnail and/or player for over 200 file formats.

Video Player

Mac OS

Codec	Type	Brave	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Vivaldi
Version	Video	101	101	101	100	86	15.4	5.2
MPEG-4 ASP	Video	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
H.264 AVC	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
H.265	Video	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
VP8	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
VP9	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
AV1	Video	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅
Theora	Video	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅
.mp4	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.webm	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.mov	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.mkv	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
.m4v	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.ogv	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
.m2ts	Video	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
.mts	Video	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
PCM	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
MP3	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
MP4A	Audio	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅
AAC	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
AC-3	Audio	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Vorbis (Ogg)	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Opus (Ogg)	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅

iPad OS

Codec	Type	Brave	Chrome	Edge
Version	Video	101	101	101
MPEG-4 ASP	Video	✅	✅	✅
H.264 AVC	Video	✅	✅	✅
H.265	Video	✅	✅	✅
VP8	Video	❌	❌	❌
VP9	Video	❌	❌	❌
AV1	Video	❌	❌	❌
Theora	Video	❌	❌	❌
.mp4	Video	✅	✅	✅
.webm	Video	❌	❌	❌
.mov	Video	✅	✅	✅
.mkv	Video	❌	❌	❌
.m4v	Video	✅	✅	✅
.ogv	Video	❌	❌	❌
.m2ts	Video	❌	❌	❌
.mts	Video	❌	❌	❌
PCM	Audio	✅	✅	✅
MP3	Audio	✅	✅	✅
MP4A	Audio	✅	✅	✅
AAC	Audio	✅	✅	✅
AC-3	Audio	✅	✅	✅
Vorbis (Ogg)	Audio	❌	❌	❌
Opus (Ogg)	Audio	❌	❌	❌

Windows

Codec	Type	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Vivaldi
Version	Video	101	101	100	86	5.2
MPEG-4 ASP	Video	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
H.264 AVC	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
H.265	Video	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
VP8	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
VP9	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
AV1	Video	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅
Theora	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.mp4	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.webm	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.mov	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.mkv	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.m4v	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.ogv	Video	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
.m2ts	Video	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
.mts	Video	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
PCM	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
MP3	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
MP4A	Audio	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
AAC	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
AC-3	Audio	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌
Vorbis (Ogg)	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Opus (Ogg)	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅

Audio Player

Mac OS

Codec	Type	Brave	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Vivaldi
Version	Video	101	101	101	100	86	15.4	5.2
PCM/WAV	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
MP3	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Ogg	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅

iPad OS

Codec	Type	Brave	Chrome	Edge
Version	Video	101	101	101
PCM	Audio	✅	✅	✅
MP3	Audio	✅	✅	✅
Ogg	Audio	❌	❌	❌

Windows

Codec	Type	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Vivaldi
Version	Video	101	101	100	86	5.2
PCM/WAV	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
MP3	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Ogg	Audio	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅

Metadata Tabs

View metadata and copy it to your clipboard.

General Metadata

MediaInfo - Support for most media formats with metadata for individual audio and video channels.

ExifTool - Primarily for photography metadata, but also supports a wide range of media formats and properties including GPS coordinates and embedded XMP which can be used to identify the project file, application version, and files used to render from Premiere Pro.

Vendor-specific Metadata

REDLine - Embedded metadata from RED cameras.

BlackmagicRAW - Embedded metadata from Blackmagic Design cameras.

ARRIRawMetaExtract - Embedded metadata from ARRI cameras.

Zip Contents - View, select, and extract the contents of a Zip file.

RDC Contents - View the individual files inside of the .RDC folder, which are accessible when the space is mounted to your desktop.

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Inspector
Understanding the Interface
Available Actions
Media Support
Video Player
Mac OS
iPad OS
Windows
Audio Player
Mac OS
iPad OS
Windows
Metadata Tabs
General Metadata
Vendor-specific Metadata
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