Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VCM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VCM to another file type
To convert your VCM file to another format, you need Vice City Mod Manager or other Video software.
Convert a file to VCM
To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Training Archive" file type, you need software like Vice City Mod Manager or a similar tool.
About VCM files
The .VCM extension represents a collision of three distinct worlds: legacy corporate training, retro gaming, and industrial simulation.
Proprietary Video Lessons: Most commonly encountered as packaged video tutorials from Virtual Training Company (VTC) or Interwise (now part of AT&T). These files are not standard video containers like MP4; they are executable-like archives containing proprietary codecs and metadata, often requiring the specific "VTC Player" or "SAP Tutor" to view. They are notorious for being "locked" content that modern media players like VLC cannot decode directly.
Grand Theft Auto Mods: In the gaming community, .VCM stands for Vice City Mod. These are simply compressed archives (often RAR or ZIP disguised) used by the Vice City Mod Manager to automate the installation of vehicles and textures. Users often struggle to open them when the Mod Manager is obsolete or incompatible with modern Windows.
Visual Components: A 3D simulation format used by Visual Components for factory modeling. These are ZIP-based containers holding XML data and 3D assets.
Best Conversion Targets:
For Video: Since direct conversion is often blocked by DRM or obscure codecs, the pragmatic solution is Screen Recording (using OBS Studio) while playing the file in its original legacy player. If it is a generic archive, renaming to RAR may allow extraction of raw video chunks (often AVI).
For Mods: Rename the extension from .VCM to ZIP or RAR to open manually with 7-Zip.
For 3D: Open in the latest Visual Components software and export to STEP or OBJ.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VCM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert VCM file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use Vice City Mod Manager or similar software from the "Packaged Video Tutorial" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to VCM, try Vice City Mod Manager or another comparable tool in the "Packaged Video Tutorial" category.
The VCM 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 VCM converter.