• Adobe After Effects

  Magic Bullet???

  Posted by Anonymous on September 1, 2005 at 12:14 am

  Hey,
  I know there is a Magic Bullet forum but I’m looking for some advice. We need to buy MBS for a client produciton, but I want to know the difference between the Suite & the Editor. Not just the standard info from the site, but from real world expeience from editors and AE artist. Should we have both the editor and suite? What are pros and cons?

  Background info: We are shooting with an Panny SDX-900 at 24p with 3:2 pull-down in the camera.
  Capture SDI via Kona 2 card to FCP.

  Thanks for your ideas and help!
  Jeff

  Dual 2ghz G-5, 4 GB Ram
  3.5TB Fiber Raid
  500 GB Internal Raid
  FCP-HD
  AE 6.5 Pro
  PS CS
  Avid MC 9000

  Reality is what we want people to see.

  Andrew Kramer replied 21 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Andrew Kramer

  September 1, 2005 at 12:51 am

  The main part of Magic Bullet is the 60i to 24p converter and the excellent deinterlacer. If your already shooting 24p the mbe editor will give you the cool color correction filters with the looks suite and the film damage effects. I’m not sure what codec the kona card uses but as long as it renders 10bit the color correction should be adequate. Otherwise color correcting in After effecets might be a good idea cause the 16bit color area and the control for multi-res comp settings so you color correct less data while still maintaining true color. Sometimes its better to get quicker feedback, although FCP aint bad, the Look suite can be a bit of a hog.

  Perhaps you can explain what you need the plug-in to do…

  good luck,
  Andrew

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