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AI at a glance
AI
Adobe co-founder John Warnock created Illustrator in late 1986 to automate many of the manual tasks used by his wife Marva, a graphic designer. It was a commercialization of Adobe's in-house font development software and PostScript file format.
MQV at a glance
MQV
The .mqv extension appeared on some Sony camcorders and recording devices around the mid-2000s as an internal variant of the QuickTime/MOV container carrying Sony-proprietary metadata tracks and stream wrappers.
Format comparison
| Feature | AI | MQV |
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| File type | Vector | Video |
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| Created year | 1987 | 2007 |
| Inventor | Adobe Systems | Sony |
| Status | active | legacy |
| Transparency | Not supported | Not supported |
| Animation | Not supported | Not supported |
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| Layer support | Supported | Not supported |
When to use each format
When to use AI
- Your source file is already in AI.
- Preserve source expectations before exporting to MQV.
- AI is commonly used in vector workflows.
When to use MQV
- Your target workflow expects MQV.
- Improve delivery compatibility with MQV.
- MQV is commonly used in video workflows.
FAQs
Why convert AI to MQV?
Convert to or from MQV when migrating recordings off older Sony consumer devices, preserving original camera exports, or normalizing a proprietary Sony library into MP4, MOV, or another easier editing format.
It is primarily a legacy-ingest and archive-recovery format.
What changes when converting AI to MQV?
This conversion changes how the format behaves in downstream tools and delivery environments.
Moving to MQV removes layer support.
What should I review after converting AI to MQV?
Validate output quality on representative files and confirm the target format behaves correctly in the destination workflow.