Extract text from PIV files
To convert your PIV file to another format, you need Pivot Animator or other Video software.
To convert other file formats to the "Animation Project File" file type, you need software like Pivot Animator or a similar tool.
A .PIV file is the proprietary project format used by Pivot Animator (formerly Pivot Stickfigure Animator) to create 2D stick-figure animations. Unlike standard video files, a .PIV file stores vector data - specifically the coordinates of 'joints' and 'segments' for each frame - compressed with zlib.
Because this is a project file, it is completely unusable outside of the Pivot software. You cannot upload a .PIV file directly to YouTube, TikTok, or Facebook, nor can you open it in media players like VLC or Windows Media Player. Users often share these files only to find their friends cannot view them without installing the specific version of Pivot used to create them.
To share your animation, you must convert the .PIV project into a standard format. For short, looping web animations, convert to GIF. For uploading to video platforms or editing in software like Adobe Premiere, convert to MP4 or AVI.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PIV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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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.