Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PROJECTDATA file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PROJECTDATA to another file type
To convert PROJECTDATA data files to another format, you need Apple iMovie or other Data software.
Convert a file to PROJECTDATA
To convert other file formats to the "App Project Settings File" file type, you need software like Apple iMovie or a similar tool.
About PROJECTDATA files
A .projectdata file stores internal project states, timeline edits, and asset references. It is predominantly used by Apple iMovie, Apple GarageBand, Logic Pro, and Xcode. The primary disadvantage of the .projectdata format is that it is a proprietary, closed system file. It is not a self-contained media file. Instead, it holds XML-based instructions detailing how external video or audio clips should be arranged. If you try to open this file without the original software or without the linked media assets, it is completely useless. It is not supported by web browsers and requires specific macOS ecosystem software to function. Standard online converters routinely fail to process .projectdata files because they falsely assume it contains video or audio streams. You cannot directly convert .projectdata to MP4 or MP3. To generate a playable media file, you must export the timeline directly from the authoring software. This file format is inherently difficult to convert because only the original software can parse the complex, proprietary timeline commands. However, just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible on convert.guru. Since the underlying structure is often standard XML, our tool can inspect the file and show the internal text content, allowing you to extract file paths, track names, or recover project metadata.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PROJECTDATA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PROJECTDATA file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Apple iMovie or similar software from the "Project Timeline and Asset Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to PROJECTDATA, try Apple iMovie or another comparable tool in the "Project Timeline and Asset Data" category.
The PROJECTDATA 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 PROJECTDATA converter.