Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PIV file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PIV to another file type
To convert PIV animations to another format, you need Pivot Animator or other Video software.
Convert a file to PIV
To convert other file formats to the "Animation Project File" file type, you need software like Pivot Animator or a similar tool.
About PIV files
.piv files are proprietary animation project files created by Pivot Animator. They contain timeline data, frame sequences, and mathematical coordinates for 2D stick figure animations, utilizing internal zlib compression to minimize file sizes. The primary disadvantage of the .piv format is its lack of interoperability. It is a closed, proprietary workspace file, not a standard video. You cannot play it on a smartphone, upload it to YouTube, or open it in a web browser. To share the animation, you must convert the project to widely supported formats like GIF for web loops, or MP4 and AVI for video platforms. Converting these files is notoriously difficult because they do not contain standard video pixels. Instead, they store joint coordinate data that must be actively rendered into frames by the original software. Standard online video converters will fail to process them. We can identify the file, inspect the underlying zlib compressed structure, and help you extract available embedded data when possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PIV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PIV file to PDF, MP4, JPEG, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP or OGV, you can use Pivot Animator or similar software from the "Stick Figure 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 PIV, try Pivot Animator or another comparable tool in the "Stick Figure Animation Project" category.
The PIV 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 PIV converter.