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Filters
Hi, i’ve been looking into where i might be able to acquire some decent filters. I’ve looked into magic bullet and was wondering if this is worth the money, or if there are some other options i might be able to look at.
Thanx for reading,
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If you had Vegas 7 previously, it came with a free package called Magic Bullet Movie Looks.
This qualifies you for the $99 upgrade (regularly $399) for Magic Bullet Looks 1.1 -
You may also want to take a gander over at these sites:
https://www.newbluefx.com/Still there are more…..
Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys -
This topic has been thoroughly discussed before. In general, the effect of most of the add-ons can be done within Vegas for no additional cost. In my view, the “looks” software can be done within Vegas; the transitions are largely worthless — who needs them? There a few, a very, very few, that are worth buying. One that I use as needed is ProDad Mercalli Steady. Get the pro version, if you buy it.
In any case, do a forum search for add-ons, or else search for posts by my name to track down additional posts by Steve and others. (You could search by Steve’s name, but he posts so often you will have a ton of posts to search through.) There are some Green Screen filters or stand-alones that seem to improve over Vegas, though I have no hands-on experience with them since the only green screen I shoot is full up and posted by full-up houses using very, very expensive software. If you want to upgrade some SD footage to HD there are also some (expensive) filters, most of which you cannot use within Vegas. Again, search the topic.
Bottom line: there are very few additional filters you need to buy, and each of them is expensive. When I started out as a shooter, some 50 years ago, I just had to try every camera filter I could find. Over time I learned that in most cases, no filter is best. The only ones I now use are various strengths of Classic Soft, for very special cases.
So it is with Vegas. What you got is mostly what you need or want. To put it another way: learn to use the tools you have before you go looking for more.
Best wishes.
Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
http://www.RickWiseDP.com
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
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