# fif file to edf file convertion

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Dear all,  
Is there any way to convert MNE .fif file into .edf file?

Br,  
Fatema  
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Not within MNE itself, for that you'll need an external package such as  
pyedf: [https://github.com/bids-standard/pyedf](https://github.com/bids-standard/pyedf)

Note that pyedf doesn't yet support Python 3 (hopefully that will change  
in the next week or so).

Depending on why you want an EDF file, you might also be served by a  
BrainVision file. In that case, I recommend my own philistine  
([https://philistine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/philistine.mne.write\_raw\_brainvision.html](https://philistine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/philistine.mne.write_raw_brainvision.html))  
for ease of use in exporting from MNE. The BIDS folks have also taken  
that code and made a version that doesn't depend on MNE:  
[https://github.com/bids-standard/pybv](https://github.com/bids-standard/pybv)

Best,

Phillip

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Hello!

MNELAB ([https://github.com/cbrnr/mnelab](https://github.com/cbrnr/mnelab)) supports converting files to EDF (as well as several additional formats). Just open the FIFF file and select File - Export data - FIF (or FIF.GZ).

Clemens