Researchware, Inc.

For HyperTRANSCRIBE 1.6.1 and earlier, HyperTRANSCRIBE can use audio and video files nearly any formats supported by Apple Quicktime (macOS) or Apple Quicktime for Windows (Windows). These include:

Audio file formats:

• AIFF (.aiff or .aif)
• MP3 (.mp3)
• Windows WAVE (.wav)
• Sun Audio (.au)
• AAC (.m4a)

Video file formats:

• QuickTime video (.mov)
• Video for Windows (.vfw)
• AVI (.avi)
• MPEG (.mpg and .mp4)

(QuickTime supports many more formats, and more are always being added. For a complete list, visit Apple's QuickTime page or see the QuickTime technical specifications.)

For HyperTRANSCRIBE 2.0.0 and higher, the following cross-platform (macOS and Windows) media formats are supported. The same formats are supported in HyperRESEARCH 4.5.0 and above.

Audio file formats:

• AAC Audio (iTunes, others) - acc, m4a, m4p, m4r
• AIFF Audio - aif, aifc, aiff
• Sun/NeXT Audio (AU) - au, snd
• Core Audio Format (CAF) - caf
• MP3 Audio - mp3 (This is our RECOMMENDED format for audio media)
• WAVE Audio - wav
• Apple Audiobook (Others) - m4b
• Adaptive Multi-Rate Audio - amr
• Audio Data Transport Stream - adts
• MP2 Audio - mp2

 Video file formats:

• QuickTime Movie - mov, qt
• MPEG Video - mpg, mpeg
• MPEG-2 Video - mpg, mpeg
• MPEG-4 Video (h264 Codec) - mp4
• MPEG-4 Video (AAC Codec) (iTunes, others) - m4v (This is our RECOMMENDED format for audio media)
• 3GP Video Capture - 3gp, 3g3, 3gp2, 3gpp
• Digital Camera Video (DV) - dv

Note: All but MPEG-1 under Windows requires the LAV Filters package of additional free media formats to be installed.