Pipeline — Blender

File Formats

Blender comes packed with import/export support for many different formats, codecs, and interoperability with other software.

Including:

Image: PNG, AVIF, JPEG, OpenEXR, WebP, BMP, Cineon, DPX, Iris, JPEG 2000, Radiance HDR, Targa, Targa Raw, TIFF.
Video Codecs: AV1, H264, H265/HEVC, WebM/VP9, DNxHD, DV, ProRes, and more.
Video Formats: MPEG-4, Matroska, WebM, AVI, DV, Flash, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Ogg, QuickTime.
3D: glTF 2.0 (.glb/.gltf), Alembic (.abc), Universal Scene Description (.usd), Wavefront (.obj), Stanford PLY, STL, FBX, Grease Pencil as SVG and PDF.

Note: Native support for COLLADA (.dae) is available up to Blender 4.5 LTS. Learn more.

File Formats Alembic

Alembic support through import/export operators and data streaming through cache constraints and modifiers.

Features include export of linked dupli-groups, sub-frame sampling, face-varying vertex colors, child hairs and empties.

Import– reads an Alembic archive and creates objects in the current Blender scene, supporting Camera, Curve, Empty, Mesh, Point object types
Export– creates an Alembic archive supporting Camera, Curve, Hair, Mesh, NURBS, Particles object types
Cache File Datablock – stores various properties related to cache files, to help keeping modifiers and constraints referencing Alembic archives in sync
Mesh Sequence Cache modifier supports meshes and curves data animations, file sequences
Transform Cache constraint, allows to stream animations made at the transformation matrix level

File Formats Universal Scene Description

Support for USD files for both import and export.