How to convert your MBR file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MBR file.
- You'll see a preview.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert MBR to another file type
The converter easily converts your MBR file to various formats - free and online. No Media Player or extra software needed.
- MBR to GPT
- MBR to MP3
- MBR to WAV
- MBR to AAC
- MBR to FLAC
- MBR to OGG
- MBR to WMA
- MBR to M4A
- MBR to AIFF
- MBR to OPUS
- MBR to ALAC
- MBR to APE
Convert a file to MBR
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Plugin formats to MBR with high quality output.
- MIDI to MBR
- AAC to MBR
- TTA to MBR
- AU to MBR
- WV to MBR
- DTS to MBR
- MID to MBR
- FLAC to MBR
- RA to MBR
- MP3 to MBR
- PCM to MBR
- WAV to MBR
About MBR files
The .MBR extension serves two completely different but technical purposes that often confuse users.
Most commonly today, it represents a Motion Bro Preset Package used by the Motion Bro plugin for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. These files contain motion graphics, transitions, and sound effects. The main difficulty is that they are proprietary packages not meant to be opened directly by the operating system. However, they are frequently just renamed ZIP archives. If you cannot install the package via the plugin, you can often rename the file extension to ZIP and extract the assets manually.
Alternatively, in systems administration, an .MBR file is a Master Boot Record backup - a raw binary dump (typically 512 bytes) of the first sector of a hard disk. These are created by tools like GRUB or older disk utilities to save partition table data. They are not human-readable text.
Conversion Best Practices:
- For Video Assets: Rename to ZIP to access individual video files, or convert specific extracted assets to MP4 or MOV for broader compatibility.
- For System Backups: These should generally remain as .MBR or BIN for restoration tools. Converting them to TXT (Hex dump) is useful only for forensic analysis.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your MBR file.
Users also converted MRB, ZXP, PRFPSET, MP4, C32, SOR, BBG and GPT files.
The MBR 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 MBR converter.