Use supported document, image, and multimedia formats for reliable event creation and presentation in TimelinePad.
TimelinePad is designed to organize case events and visualize them with supporting documents, images, videos, and audio. Import supported file formats into their respective event attachments for best performance and compatibility.
Format For Populating Timeline
✔️ Excel (.XLSX)
Excel files are supported in TimelinePad for importing events to your timeline.
For information on using excel to bulk import events, please review Using an Excel File to Populate Your Timeline in our Help Center.
Formats for Event Attachments
Document and Text Formats
✔️ Portable Document Format (.PDF)
Image Formats
✔️ Tagged Image File Format (.TIF, .TIFF)
✔️ Joint Photographic Experts Group (.JPG, .JPEG)
✔️ Portable Network Graphics (.PNG)
Video and Audio Formats
If you experience issues playing a video or audio file, please see Ensuring Video and Audio Compatibility in our Help Center.
Video Formats
These are the standard formats for video playback in TimelinePad.
✔️ QuickTime (.MOV)
✔️ MPEG-4 (.MP4)
Audio Formats
These are the standard formats for audio playback in TimelinePad.
✔️ Waveform Audio File (.WAV)
✔️ MPEG Audio Layer-3 (.MP3)
✔️ Audio Interchange File Format (.AIF, .AIFF)
Not Supported
TimelinePad does not support encrypted, proprietary, or general-purpose productivity file types. Convert unsupported formats to PDF or Excel before importing.
❌ Text File (.TXT)
❌ Compressed or Zipped File (.ZIP)