Magic bullet or Color for color grading?

[Rafael Amador]

MB is a very powerful application and to being able to fully control it you must be a really skilled colorist.
But MB Presets doesn’t make miracles, and the best one won’t give life to a flat picture.
A Primary CC is a must before to trying to get anything from MB.
With Color you will be able to do what MB does, and more.
But if you are able to get the setting you want in MB and drop it at once in a 90 minutes film, is great too.
Since I feel comfortable with Color I open MB very seldom.
Now I miss the old MB Editors that was all numeric.
Rafael

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Kent Beeson] “Thanks for all the good advice – I’ll at least have a look into MB’s LOOK – yes I have COLOR but at first approach have had trouble even properly importing a mov file to play with – I need to learn this thing from maybe Walter B’s DVD, we’ll see.”

You don’t import movies. Well I guess you can, but it’s much easier to Send a timeline from FCP to Color, even if it’s just one clip in the timeline.

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[Steve Connor]

We use Looks every single day and it’s great, very intuative and relatively easy to use

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[Bryan Banks]

I might have to email Bob and pick up Scone Looks… seems to be a pretty comprehensive package to learn from. The looks themselves almost seem like a bonus next to the video tutorials.

-Bryan

[Rafael Amador]

Sure with the “Scone Looks” people will end using Colors like MB Looks: Without understanding how everything works.
Rafael

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[Jon Smitherton]

Tip for Magic Bullet Looks:

Use FCP 3 way CC to do a primary grade, and use Looks as a secondary.
This will save you stepping in and out of Looks to do primary, making the process a lot faster.

So first pass, primary with FCP 3 way, second pass – add look and render, third pass fine tweak and render. Don’t forget to add auto-shoulder clamp luma levels (this will save you adding broadcast safe via a nest in FCP)

I assign ‘Y’ on keyboard to ‘open’ in Canvas, to sync viewer with canvas to allow instant access to CC controls.

5 series grading with it so far, loving it!

Jon

[Kent Beeson]

Thanks for the info – I just bought Quick looks actually, should be here in a week, will try that (as secondary).

Thanks

K
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