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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.
RealVideo at a glance
RealVideo
RealNetworks released the first RealVideo codec in February 1997 as part of RealPlayer 5, pioneering internet video streaming when bandwidth was extremely limited and competing with Microsoft's Windows Media and Apple's QuickTime Streaming.
Format comparison
| Feature | AI | RealVideo |
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| File type | Vector | Video |
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| Created year | 1987 | 1997 |
| Inventor | Adobe Systems | RealNetworks |
| Status | active | legacy |
| Transparency | Not supported | Not supported |
| Animation | Not supported | Not supported |
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| Layer support | Supported | Supported |
When to use each format
When to use AI
- Your source file is already in AI.
- Preserve source expectations before exporting to RealVideo.
- AI is commonly used in vector workflows.
When to use RealVideo
- Your target workflow expects RealVideo.
- Improve delivery compatibility with RealVideo.
- RealVideo is commonly used in video workflows.
FAQs
Why convert AI to RealVideo?
Convert to or from RealVideo when recovering streaming-era web media, preserving early RealNetworks distributions, or migrating archived RM and RMVB collections into current containers such as MP4.
It is primarily a legacy-access format for old internet-video libraries rather than a target for new delivery.
What changes when converting AI to RealVideo?
This conversion changes how the format behaves in downstream tools and delivery environments.
What should I review after converting AI to RealVideo?
Validate output quality on representative files and confirm the target format behaves correctly in the destination workflow.