AETX Converter

Extract text from After Effects project templates (AETX)


Drop or upload your .AETX file
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How to extract text from your AETX file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your AETX file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert AETX to another file type

To convert AETX project templates to another format, you need Adobe After Effects or other Video software.

Convert a file to AETX

To convert other file formats to the "XML Project Template" file type, you need software like Adobe After Effects or a similar tool.


About AETX files

The .AETX file is an XML-based project template used by Adobe After Effects to store reusable motion graphics setups. It holds a text-based representation of timelines, compositions, and effect parameters, making it easier for teams to collaborate and track changes in version control systems. A major disadvantage of this format is its proprietary nature; it is useless without a costly Adobe subscription. Furthermore, .AETX files do not contain any actual video, audio, or image media. They only store XML text and file paths pointing to external assets on your hard drive. Because of this, users frequently hit a wall when trying to convert these files into standard video formats like MP4 or MOV online. Standard online converters fail to process them because rendering the final video requires the proprietary Adobe engine to composite the referenced media. If you simply need to access the project data, your best conversion targets are XML or TXT, which will allow you to read the code without Adobe software, though visual graphics are lost. This file format is difficult to open or convert for actual video output. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your AETX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert AETX file to , you can use Adobe After Effects or similar software from the "Video Composition Project Template" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to AETX, try Adobe After Effects or another comparable tool in the "Video Composition Project Template" category.



The AETX Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our AETX converter.