ExifTool integration
Advanced Renamer supports most commonly used file formats through a fast native implementation. ExifTool, a program by Phil Harvey (exiftool.org), adds support for more exotic formats and provides better access to vendor-specific proprietary metadata fields. Metadata from either source can be used when renaming files.
Tag values can get investigated by selecting a file and clicking the ExifTool button in the Fileinfo panel. From here you can copy a <ExifTool:> tag and paste it into a method of choice.
The table below compares native format support with ExifTool support. A check mark indicates that the format is supported.
| Extensions | Format | Native support | ExifTool support |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3FR | Hasselblad RAW | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3G2, 3GP2 | 3rd Gen. Partnership Project 2 audio/video | ✓ | |
| 3GP, 3GPP | 3rd Gen. Partnership Project audio/video | ✓ | |
| ACR | American College of Radiology ACR-NEMA | ✓ | |
| AFM, ACFM, AMFM | Adobe Font Metrics | ✓ | |
| AI, AIT | Adobe Illustrator | ✓ | |
| AIFF, AIF, AIFC | Audio Interchange File Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| APE | Monkey's Audio | ✓ | |
| ARW | Sony Alpha RAW | ✓ | ✓ |
| ASF | Microsoft Advanced Systems Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleaved | ✓ | ✓ |
| BMP | Windows BitMaP / Device Independent Bitmap | ✓ | ✓ |
| DIB | Windows BitMaP / Device Independent Bitmap | ✓ | |
| TIFF, TIF | BigTIFF | ✓ | ✓ |
| BTF | BigTIFF | ✓ | |
| CAP | Microsoft Network Monitor Capture | ✓ | |
| CHM | Microsoft Compiled HTML format | ✓ | |
| COS | Capture One Settings | ✓ | |
| CR2 | Canon RAW 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRW, CIFF | Canon RAW Camera Image File Format | ✓ | |
| CS1 | Sinar CaptureShop 1-shot RAW | ✓ | |
| DCM, DC3, DIC, DICM | DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine | ✓ | |
| DCP | DNG Camera Profile | ✓ | |
| DCR | Kodak Digital Camera RAW | ✓ | ✓ |
| DFONT | Macintosh Data Fork Font | ✓ | |
| DIVX | DivX media format | ✓ | |
| DJVU, DJV | DjVu image | ✓ | |
| DNG | Digital Negative | ✓ | ✓ |
| DOC, DOT | Microsoft Word Document | ✓ | |
| DOCX, DOCM | Office Open XML Document | ✓ | ✓ |
| DOTX, DOTM | Office Open XML Document Template | ✓ | |
| DSF | DSD Stream File | ✓ | |
| DYLIB | Mac OS X Mach-O executable and library files | ✓ | |
| DV | Digital Video | ✓ | |
| DVB | Digital Video Broadcasting | ✓ | |
| EIP | Capture One Enhanced Image Package | ✓ | |
| EPS, EPSF, PS | PostScript Format | ✓ | |
| ERF | Epson RAW Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| EXE | Windows executable and library files | ✓ | ✓ |
| DLL | Windows executable and library files | ✓ | |
| EXIF | Exchangable Image File Format metadata | ✓ | |
| EXR | Open EXR | ✓ | |
| F4A, F4B, F4P, F4V | Adobe Flash Player 9+ Audio/Video | ✓ | |
| FFF | Hasselblad Flexible File Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| FLA | Adobe Flash project | ✓ | |
| FLAC | Free Lossless Audio Codec | ✓ | ✓ |
| FLV | Flash Video | ✓ | |
| FPX | FlashPix image | ✓ | |
| GIF | Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| GZ, GZIP | GNU ZIP compressed archive | ✓ | |
| HDP, WDP | Windows HD Photo / Media Photo | ✓ | |
| HDR | Radiance RGBE High Dynamic-Range | ✓ | |
| HTML, HTM, XHTML | HyperText Markup Language | ✓ | |
| ICC, ICM | International Color Consortium color profile | ✓ | |
| IDML | Adobe InDesign Markup Language | ✓ | |
| IIQ | Phase One Intelligent Image Quality RAW | ✓ | |
| IND, INDD, INDT | Adobe InDesign Document | ✓ | |
| INX | Adobe InDesign Interchange | ✓ | |
| ITC | iTunes Cover Flow artwork | ✓ | |
| J2C, JPC | JPEG 2000 codestream | ✓ | |
| JP2, JPF, JPM, JPX | JPEG 2000 image | ✓ | ✓ |
| J2K | JPEG 2000 image | ✓ | |
| JPEG, JPG | Joint Photographic Experts Group image | ✓ | ✓ |
| K25 | Kodak DC25 RAW | ✓ | |
| KDC | Kodak Digital Camera RAW | ✓ | ✓ |
| KEY, KTH | Apple iWork '09 Keynote presentation | ✓ | |
| KVAR | Kandao Video Asset Resource | ✓ | |
| LA | Lossless Audio | ✓ | |
| LNK | Microsoft Shell Link | ✓ | |
| LRV, LRF | Low-Resolution Video | ✓ | |
| M2TS, MTS, M2T, TS | MPEG-2 Transport Stream | ✓ | |
| M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V | MPEG-4 Audio/Video | ✓ | ✓ |
| MEF | Mamiya Electronic Format | ✓ | |
| MIE | Meta Information Encapsulation | ✓ | |
| MIFF, MIF | Magick Image File Format | ✓ | |
| MKA, MKV | Matroska Audio / Video / Subtitle | ✓ | ✓ |
| MKS | Matroska Audio / Video / Subtitle | ✓ | |
| MOS | Creo Leaf Mosaic | ✓ | |
| MOV, QT | Apple QuickTime Movie | ✓ | ✓ |
| MP3 | MPEG-1 layer 3 audio | ✓ | ✓ |
| MP4 | Motion Picture Experts Group version 4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| MPC | Musepack Audio | ✓ | |
| MPEG, MPG, M2V | Motion Picture Experts Group version 1 or 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| MPO | Extended Multi-Picture format | ✓ | ✓ |
| MQV | Sony Mobile QuickTime Video | ✓ | |
| MRW | Minolta RAW | ✓ | |
| MXF | Material Exchange Format | ✓ | |
| NEF | Nikon Electronic Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| NKA | Nikon NX Studio Adjustments | ✓ | |
| NMBTEMPLATE | Apple iWork '09 Numbers Template | ✓ | |
| NRW | Nikon RAW | ✓ | ✓ |
| NUMBERS | Apple iWork '09 Numbers spreadsheet | ✓ | |
| NXD | Nikon Capture NX-D adjustments | ✓ | |
| ODP, ODS, ODT | Open Document | ✓ | ✓ |
| ODB, ODC, ODF, ODG, ODI | Open Document | ✓ | |
| OFR | OptimFROG audio | ✓ | |
| OGG, OGV | Ogg bitstream container | ✓ | ✓ |
| ORF | Olympus RAW Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| OTF | Open Type Font | ✓ | ✓ |
| PAC | Lossless Predictive Audio Compression | ✓ | |
| PAGES | Apple iWork '09 Pages document | ✓ | |
| PCAP, PCAPNG | Packet Capture (Next Generation) | ✓ | |
| PCD | Kodak Photo CD Image Pac | ✓ | |
| Adobe Portable Document Format | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PEF | Pentax Electronic Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| PFA, PFB | PostScript Font | ✓ | |
| PFM | Printer Font Metrics | ✓ | |
| PGF | Progressive Graphics File | ✓ | |
| PICT, PCT | Apple Picture file | ✓ | |
| PMP | Sony DSC-F1 Cyber-Shot image | ✓ | |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | ✓ | ✓ |
| JNG, MNG | Portable Network Graphics | ✓ | |
| PPM, PBM, PGM | Portable Pixel Map | ✓ | |
| PPT, PPS, POT | Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation | ✓ | |
| POTX, POTM | Office Open XML Presentation Template | ✓ | |
| PPSX, PPSM | Office Open XML Presentation Slideshow | ✓ | |
| PPTX, PPTM | Office Open XML Presentation | ✓ | ✓ |
| PSD | PhotoShop Drawing / Large Document | ✓ | ✓ |
| PSB | PhotoShop Drawing / Large Document | ✓ | |
| PSP, PSPIMAGE | Paint Shop Pro | ✓ | |
| QTIF, QTI, QIF | QuickTime Image File | ✓ | |
| RA | Real Audio | ✓ | |
| RAF | FujiFilm RAW Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| RAM, RPM | Real Audio | ✓ | |
| RAR | RAR Archive | ✓ | |
| RAW | Kyocera Contax N Digital RAW | ✓ | |
| RAW | Panasonic RAW | ✓ | |
| RIFF, RIF | Resource Interchange File Format | ✓ | |
| RM, RV, RMVB | Real Media | ✓ | |
| RSRC | Mac OS Resource | ✓ | |
| RTF | Rich Text Format | ✓ | |
| RW2 | Panasonic RAW 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| RWL | Leica RAW | ✓ | ✓ |
| RWZ | Rawzor compressed image | ✓ | |
| SO | Unix ELF executable and Shared Object files | ✓ | |
| SR2 | Sony RAW 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| SRF | Sony RAW Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| SRW | Samsung RAW format | ✓ | ✓ |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics | ✓ | ✓ |
| SWF | Shockwave Flash | ✓ | |
| THM | Canon Thumbnail | ✓ | |
| THMX | Office Open XML Theme | ✓ | |
| TIFF, TIF | Tagged Image File Format | ✓ | ✓ |
| TNEF | Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format | ✓ | |
| TTF | True Type Font | ✓ | ✓ |
| TTC | True Type Font | ✓ | |
| URL | Windows URL Link | ✓ | |
| VOB | Video Object | ✓ | |
| VRD | Canon DPP Recipe Data | ✓ | |
| VSD | Microsoft Visio Drawing | ✓ | |
| VSDX | Microsoft Visio Drawing XML | ✓ | |
| WAV | Windows digital audio WAVeform | ✓ | ✓ |
| WEBM | Google Web Movie | ✓ | ✓ |
| WEBP | Google Web Picture | ✓ | ✓ |
| WMA, WMV | Windows Media | ✓ | ✓ |
| WV, WVP | WavPack audio | ✓ | |
| X3F | Sigma/Foveon RAW | ✓ | |
| XCF | GIMP native image format | ✓ | ✓ |
| XLS, XLT | Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet | ✓ | |
| XLSX, XLSM | Office Open XML Spreadsheet | ✓ | ✓ |
| XLSB | Office Open XML Spreadsheet | ✓ | |
| XLTX, XLTM | Office Open XML Spreadsheet Template | ✓ | |
| XMP | Extensible Metadata Platform sidecar file | ✓ | |
| ZIP | ZIP archive | ✓ |