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Magic Bullet?
I had a question about this “film look” software, does it really transfer the video look to a film look? Because im thinking about getting it but I dont want to pay the price if its not a bang for its buck. Also does it deal with transfering the motion of video to film, or is that only cinemotion.
Thanks
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I’ve never used Magic Bullet, but I hear it’s pretty good. Personally I would rather go through the steps manually in AE to make my video look more like film.
You can examine some of the ‘looks’ available with Magic Bullet here:
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/lookguide.html
Frankly, you’d be amazed at what you can do by hand with Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, Gradient Solids, Blurs and Channel effects. Especially in 32bpc/linear.
If you have the money, Magic Bullet might be more sensible as it will do the heavy lifting for you, but I like exploring how to do this stuff myself =)
Darby Edelen
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You can achieve the film look in many number of ways… AE is just one way… Magic Bullet is another.
The difference is the time and consitency of the effect. Movie Magic shortens the film look creation time and can produce consitant film look.
The single biggest downside to Magic Bullet is that it you need a very good video card… this software is very Video CPU dependent. As a result, it is VERY slow to render. The newer version is suppose to be significantly faster… but, that would mean instead of being glacial as the older version (which I have used occasionally)… it is only semi-glacial.
FWIW Joe Moya
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If you are on a mac and have the new FCP suite, take a look at using compressor 3 to do your framerate conversions or use the nattress.com plugins – the frame rate conversions is where MB is really slow. If you don’t need that, then you might look at Red Giant’s editors product or digitalfilmtools.com has a product called film lab.
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Is it true that the Magic Bullet movie-look plug-ins do not work for intel macs?
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Check out VideoCopilot.net. Andrew Kramer has created some awesome film look presets for AE. They require no special overhead – they are presets based on color correction effects in AE. Also, they are very inexpensive.
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Also want to say that Magic Bullet does nice stuff. But yes – a good video card is key. There is some real overhead otherwise.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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