Extract text from EDIUS and TreePad files (TPD)
To convert TPD files to another format, you need Grass Valley EDIUS or other Database software.
To convert other file formats to the "Application Specific Database" file type, you need software like Grass Valley EDIUS or a similar tool.
The .TPD file extension is a highly fragmented format used by multiple distinct software ecosystems. The most common use case is a video effect preset database created by Grass Valley EDIUS, a professional non-linear video editing (NLE) software. It stores custom transition parameters, color grading presets, and timeline effects in a binary format. Another major application is Veeam Backup & Replication, which generates .TPD files as temporary backup data segments during virtualization snapshots. Legacy users may also encounter .TPD as personal information manager (PIM) databases created by the discontinued Freebyte TreePad, or as XML-based configuration files for the TorPedo Traffic Generator.
The primary disadvantage of the .TPD format is its severe lack of interoperability and extreme extension collision. Because the same three-letter extension serves entirely different functions depending on the originating software, a .TPD file is useless without knowing its exact context. EDIUS preset databases are proprietary binary files that cannot be imported into Adobe Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Veeam backup segments are proprietary, incomplete data chunks strictly locked to the Veeam ecosystem. TreePad databases require the original, obsolete software to properly render the hierarchical node data.
Converting .TPD files is exceptionally difficult because they are closed, proprietary data containers rather than standard media or documents. Standard online converters inevitably fail to process them because they lack the specific parsing logic for each proprietary variant. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. Our analyzer will inspect the file's binary signature, extract readable text strings, and reveal the internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format (such as plain text from a TreePad database or standard XML data from a TorPedo configuration), viewing or conversion to standard TXT, XML, or CSV formats may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TPD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted TRD, LUT, XLSX, PNG, EZP, GPX, LCP, MT and BPD files.
If you want to convert TPD file to MT, BPD, MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP or OGV, you can use Grass Valley EDIUS or similar software from the "Proprietary Data and Database Storage" 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 TPD, try Grass Valley EDIUS or another comparable tool in the "Proprietary Data and Database Storage" category.
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 TPD converter.