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 your PROJECTDATA file to another format, you need Apple iMovie or other Data software.
Convert a file to PROJECTDATA
To convert other file formats to the "XML Configuration" file type, you need software like Apple iMovie or a similar tool.
About PROJECTDATA files
A .projectdata file is primarily an XML-based metadata file found within Apple iMovie project bundles (like imovielibrary or rcproject). These files are not playable videos; instead, they contain the instructions - edit points, clip references, effects settings, and timeline data - that tell iMovie how to assemble your movie. Users typically encounter this file when viewing a Mac-based iMovie project on a Windows PC, where the project "package" appears as a regular folder exposing its internal components. Because it is a text-based dependency file, it cannot be directly converted to media formats like MP4 or MOV because it contains no actual audio or video stream data. For valid video conversion, you must open the original project file in Apple iMovie on macOS and use the "Export" function. However, for archival or inspection purposes, you can convert the .projectdata XML structure to TXT or PDF to view the project's edit history and file paths.
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 "iMovie Project Metadata" 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 "iMovie Project Metadata" 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.