EWC2 Converter

Extract text from EDIUS waveform cache files (EWC2)

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Drop or upload your .EWC2 file

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How to extract text from your EWC2 file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your EWC2 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert EWC2 to another file type

To convert EWC2 cache files to another format, you need Grass Valley EDIUS or other Data software.

Convert a file to EWC2

To convert other file formats to the "Visualization Cache" file type, you need software like Grass Valley EDIUS or a similar tool.

About EWC2 files

If you are trying to play or convert a .ewc2 file to MP3 or MP4, you are likely facing a dead end. In 95% of cases, this file is not a media file itself but a waveform cache generated by Grass Valley EDIUS. Video editors create these small helper files to visually display the "peaks and valleys" of an audio track on the editing timeline without re-processing the original audio every time.

The Reality: The file contains data describing how the sound looks, not the sound itself. It is a sidecar file, typically appearing alongside your actual footage (e.g., interview.avi might spawn interview.ewc2).

The Solution:

For Audio/Video: You cannot convert this file. You must locate the source media file (check the folder for WAV, MOV, or MXF files with the same filename).
For Cleanup: You can safely delete .ewc2 files if you are done editing. EDIUS will simply regenerate them if you open the project again.
Alternative Case: If you use EasyWorship, this may be an encrypted video file used for presentation backgrounds. In this specific scenario, the file is locked by proprietary DRM and cannot be converted to common formats like AVI or MKV.

Convert.Guru analyzes your EWC2 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted ESE2, MP4, ECW, INP, ZIP, X_T, JPG, EWB, EWS and EWL files.

FAQ

If you want to convert EWC2 file to MP4, TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD or LOCK, you can use Grass Valley EDIUS or similar software from the "Audio Waveform Cache" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to EWC2, try Grass Valley EDIUS or another comparable tool in the "Audio Waveform Cache" category.

The EWC2 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 EWC2 converter.