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# File Requirements for Amazon Photos and Amazon Drive

Amazon Photos and Amazon Drive support most of the commonly used file types and formats for photos and videos.

## Supported by Amazon Photos and Amazon Drive

Photo and Video Types (This is not a definitive list) | Photos: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, most TIFF, HEIF, HEVC, HEIC, and some RAW format files. Videos: MP4, QuickTime, AVI, MTS, MPG, ASF, WMV, Flash, HEIF, HEVC, and OGG.
RAW File Types (This is not a definitive list) | Nikon (NEF files) Canon (CR2 Files) ARW (Sony) CRW (Canon RAW CIFF image) ORF (Olympus) files DNG files

## Unsupported by Amazon Photos and Amazon Drive

Photo and Video Types | iOS Burst or Live Photos Google Motion Photos Samsung Motion Photos 3D Photos Equirectangular Panoramic Photos Lenticular Photos Leica Photos
Incompatible Characters | File names cannot contain: Any special characters (<>:"/\|?*\) or Unicode \x00 - \x1F $$ File names cannot end in: CON PRN AUX NUL COM[1-9] LPT[1-9] A space or a period
File and Folder Names Restrictions | Files names must contain fewer than 255 characters. Folder names must contain fewer than 255 characters.

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