Supported QuickTime Audio

The table below lists the audio codecs supported in .mov files as audio-video files.

Important: Codecs marked with an asterisk (*) are not available in the Trial and Educational versions of the application. You can neither import nor export files encoded with these codecs.

Audio CODEC	Import	Export
16-bit PCM	yes	yes
16-bit PCM	Note: Export supports both big and small endian.
24-bit PCM	no	yes
24-bit PCM	Note: Export supports both big and small endian.
32-bit floating point PCM	no	yes
32-bit floating point PCM	Note: Export supports both big and small endian.
32-bit float	no	yes
A-law 2:1	yes	yes
ADPCM ima WAV	yes	no
Advanced Audio Codec (AAC)*	yes	yes
Advanced Audio Codec (AAC)*	Note: Supported in mp4 and m4v files. On export, the following data rates are supported: 56 kbps (mono only) 96 kbps 160 kbps 224 kbps 288 kbps 320 kbps (stereo only) 448 kbps (stereo only) 576 kbps (stereo only)
Apple lossless	yes	no
IMA 4:1	yes	yes
Linear PCM (QT 7)	yes	yes
MPEG-2 Layer II Audio*	yes	yes
MS ADPCM	yes	no
Ogg Vorbis (qt4l compatible)	yes	no
Ogg Vorbis (qtcomponents compatible)	yes	no
QDM2 Audio	yes	no
Raw 8-bit audio	yes	no
Sowt	yes	yes
Sowt	Note: 16-bit PCM (Little Endian)
Twos	yes	yes
Twos	Note: 16-bit PCM (Big Endian)
Ulaw	yes	yes