XAVC S supports resolutions up to 3840 × 2160, uses MP4 as the container format, and uses either AAC or LPCM for the audio. On April 7, 2013, Sony announced that it had expanded XAVC to the consumer market with the release of XAVC S. XAVC allows for a wide range of content production including intra frame recording and long group of pictures (GOP) recording. XAVC supports color depths of 8, 10, and 12 bits. XAVC can support 4K resolution (4096 × 21 × 2160) at up to 60 frames per second (fps). XAVC uses level 5.2 of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC which is the highest level supported by that video standard.
