MANI Converter

Extract text from Mine-imator project files (MANI)


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

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

Convert MANI to another file type

To convert MANI projects to another format, you need Mine-imator or other 3D software.

Convert a file to MANI

To convert other file formats to the "3D Animation Project File" file type, you need software like Mine-imator or a similar tool.


About MANI files

The .mani file is a proprietary project file created by Mine-imator, a 3D animation studio built specifically for creating Minecraft videos. It saves the entire state of an animation project, including timelines, keyframes, camera angles, lighting configurations, and file paths to external assets like character skins, map schematics, and audio tracks. You can open and edit these files exclusively using Mine-imator, originally developed by David Norgren. The main disadvantage of the .mani format is that it is a closed, proprietary project file. It is completely useless outside of the Mine-imator ecosystem. It is not an actual video or a universal 3D model. Users often try to upload .mani files to video players, YouTube, or web browsers, only to find they cannot be opened. The format also does not embed heavy assets, meaning if you move a .mani file without its associated resource folder, the project will break and show missing textures. Users typically want to convert .mani to MP4 or AVI to share their animations online. However, standard online converters fail to process it because the file is merely a data file containing rendering instructions, not actual pixel data. To get a video, you must use the "Export as Movie" function inside the native software. This file format is difficult to open or convert via third-party tools because only the original software can properly read or export the data. Our analysis detects the underlying structure, allowing you to inspect the raw text contents and extract embedded data if available.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert MANI file to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV, ASF or RM, you can use Mine-imator or similar software from the "Minecraft 3D Animation Project" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to MANI, try Mine-imator or another comparable tool in the "Minecraft 3D Animation Project" category.



The MANI 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 MANI converter.