Extract text from Animation projects and scripts (MAKE)
To convert MAKE Projects and scripts to another format, you need Figma or other Video software.
To convert other file formats to the "Animation Project Archive" file type, you need software like Figma or a similar tool.
A .make file is predominantly a Design Animation Project file used by the Figma to Video (Make) toolchain. It stores timeline data, layer properties, and project configurations necessary to render animations. Internally, the file relies on standard ZIP compression to bundle JSON data files and embedded image assets.
You can open the animation variants using the original Make plugin for Figma. Alternatively, a .make file can be a plain text build script, specifically an Xcode Makefile Script by Apple or a Drush Makefile used for deploying Drupal environments.
The main disadvantage of the Make animation format is its proprietary structure. It is heavily locked into a specific web-based plugin ecosystem. You cannot open these files in standard video editors like Adobe Premiere Pro or view them natively in web browsers. If you try to share a .make file with a client, they will be completely unable to view the animation without the exact software setup. Developer makefile variants face different issues; they are simple text files but lack universal formatting when shared with non-developers.
To share the animation, you must render the project to MP4 or WEBM from within the original tool. However, because the animation file is essentially a compressed archive, you can manually rename the extension to ZIP to extract the raw PNG, SVG, and JSON assets. For developer scripts, converting to TXT or PDF makes them universally readable.
This file format is difficult to open or convert because standard online tools fail to parse the proprietary timeline logic of the animation projects. Only the original software can properly render the final video data. However, just drag and drop your file to see what it is and convert it if supported. convert.guru can identify the file format, inspect the internal ZIP structure to extract embedded assets, or display the raw text content if it is an Xcode or Drush script.
Convert.Guru analyzes your MAKE file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted MAKEFILE, UI, FIG, TSX, ZIP, PNG, XAPK, GLOBAL, EL and CMAKE files.
If you want to convert MAKE file to CMAKE, EXE, MSI, APP, DMG, DEB, RPM, PKG, RUN, SH, BAT or CMD, you can use Figma or similar software from the "Design Animation Project File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert JAR, APP, SCR, IPA, COM, AAB, PS1, DMG, VBS, EXE, XAPK or MSI files to MAKE, try Figma or another comparable tool in the "Design Animation Project File" category.
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 MAKE converter.