Input data file formats

ContextCapture natively supports photographs in JPEG and TIFF formats. It can also read some of the more common RAW formats. ContextCapture uses Exif metadata if present.

Supported file formats:

JPEG
Tag Image File Format (TIFF)
Panasonic RAW (RW2)
Canon RAW (CRW, CR2)
Nikon RAW (NEF)
Sony RAW (ARW)
Hasselblad (3FR)
Adobe Digital Negative (DNG)
JPEG 2000
ECW
PNG

ContextCapture can also import frames from video files in the following formats:

Audio Video Interleave (AVI)
MPEG-1/MPEG-2 (MPG)
MPEG-4 (MP4)
Windows Media Video (WMV)
Quicktime (MOV)

Point cloud file formats

ContextCapture supports two common point cloud formats able to store scan positions:

ASTM E57 file format (.e57)
Cyclone point cloud export format (.ptx)