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  Magic Bullet: can’t quite get “The Look”

  Posted by Whitlock Dunbar on October 30, 2006 at 3:32 am

  Like many others who purchased Magic Bullet I’m trying to get our pristine 60i footage to look less like pristine 60i footage. Here’s my workflow:

  Digitize into Avid at 2:1. Export “Same as Source” to a .mov.
  Import into AE7 (separate fields turned off). I create a 29.97 comp and apply MB2.1 and render with the settings suggested in the MB manual to create a 30p NTSC master, using the Uncompressed Meridian codec.

  When I import the quicktime created by AE7 back into Avid, the clip (as viewed on a NTSC monitor) definitely doesn’t look like the original DigiBeta footage but it certainly wouldn’t fool anyone into beleiving that its not just interlaced video running through plug-ins (specifically thin lines appeared aliased and there were digital artifacts and jittery motion). I also tried to create a 24p master but the results were even less convincing.

  I can give more details, but overall am I missing something obvious or are my expectations of what MB can do too high?

  Whitlock Dunbar replied 19 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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