MGA Converter

Extract text from MGA files

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How to extract text from your MGA file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MGA file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert MGA to another file type

To convert your MGA file to another format, you need Red Giant Magic Bullet or other Video software.

Convert a file to MGA

To convert other file formats to the "Color Grading Preset" file type, you need software like Red Giant Magic Bullet or a similar tool.

About MGA files

The .MGA file extension typically represents a legacy Magic Bullet Look file used in professional video post-production. Originally developed for Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite (now owned by Maxon), these files function as proprietary 3D Look-Up Tables (LUTs) to define color grading presets. The catch for editors is compatibility; modern Non-Linear Editors (NLEs) like DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro standardize on CUBE or 3DL formats. Native .MGA files often behave as proprietary "black boxes" that cannot be imported directly into newer workflows without the specific legacy plugin version installed.

Alternatively, an .MGA file may be an Art Department Professional (ADPro) graphics file, a raster image format from the Commodore Amiga era. These files are functionally obsolete on modern operating systems like Windows or macOS, requiring specialized emulation or conversion tools to view.

Conversion Best Practices:

For Video Editing: Convert .MGA look files to the industry-standard CUBE format to ensure cross-platform compatibility with Premiere, Final Cut, and Resolve.
For Archiving/Viewing: Convert ADPro .MGA images to PNG or TIFF to preserve lossless quality while making the image accessible in standard viewers.

Convert.Guru analyzes your MGA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted LUT, VGX, TST, GFA and ZAR files.

FAQ

If you want to convert MGA file to ZAR, INDD, QXP, PUB, PMD, PM6, PM7, PM8, PM9, PM10, PM11 or OMP, you can use Red Giant Magic Bullet or similar software from the "Color Grading Lookup Table" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MDI, PUB, PDP, PM4, P65, COMIC, WEBTEMPLATE, PMD, SPUB, INDD, PM5 or QXP files to MGA, try Red Giant Magic Bullet or another comparable tool in the "Color Grading Lookup Table" category.

The MGA 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 MGA converter.