Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your AVX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert AVX to another file type
To convert AVX Surveillance files to another format, you need Avid Media Composer or other Video software.
Convert a file to AVX
To convert other file formats to the "Surveillance Video or Plugin" file type, you need software like Avid Media Composer or a similar tool.
About AVX files
The .AVX file format primarily serves two distinct purposes: it is usually a proprietary video surveillance recording generated by Avigilon Control Center, or an Audio Video eXchange plugin used by Avid Media Composer. Less frequently, it functions as an extension file for ESRI ArcView GIS, contains astrology data for Astro-Vision software, or stores video cutscenes for Gust Corporation games. Users typically need to convert .AVX files when they receive exported security camera footage and discover it will not open. The main disadvantage of the .AVX format is its highly restrictive, proprietary nature. Surveillance files are often tied to the specific security system that created them and may be encrypted to protect legal evidence, requiring a proprietary player to view. Standard online converters consistently fail to process these files because they lack the closed-source decoders required to read the data. If you need playable video, the most reliable method is to use the original Avigilon software to export the footage into standard target formats like MP4 or AVI. Note that doing so might remove proprietary timestamps or camera metadata, but it ensures universal playback. For Avid plugins, conversion is fundamentally impossible since they are compiled software add-ons rather than media files. We will analyze the internal structure of your .AVX file. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your AVX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert AVX file to MP4, DLL, SO, DYLIB, BUNDLE, PLUGIN, XPI, CRX, SAFARIEXTZ, APPEX, KEXT or SYS, you can use Avid Media Composer or similar software from the "Video Surveillance and Plugins" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert LV2, DYLIB, VST, AAX, DRV, TDE, LADSPA, BUNDLE, AU, DLL, RTAS or SO files to AVX, try Avid Media Composer or another comparable tool in the "Video Surveillance and Plugins" category.
The AVX 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 AVX converter.