![]() Suffice it to say that the developers have included a wide variety of "looks" - from the Matrix-like "Neo" which gives your footage a high-contrast, greenish-hued look, to "Mexicali," which turns everything nicely yellow and old-looking like the flashback scenes in "The Mexican." I do not have room here to describe each of the presets and what they will do to your footage, but a description of each is available on the Orphanage website. ![]() To apply one of the presets to a clip, you can either drag it directly onto a clip in the timeline, or simply double-click on one of the presets after loading the desired clip into the viewer. The presets bins along with my own bin which I created to store my own presets. Inside each of these "bins" are a number of variations on the root theme. The preset category "bins" that come with the suite are titled as follows: Basics, Diffusion, Film Looks, Sepia, Specialty, Stock Emulation, and Tints. ![]() At first, this annoyed me, but I quickly came to appreciate how the developers had categorized the various preset "looks" in different bins, allowing for quick navigation. To access the presets, you must open a Final Cut project called "Look Suite Favorites," which loads the presets into several categorized bins. ![]() Once loaded, you can apply the "Look Suite" filter to a clip just like any other plug-in, but the presets are not immediately available. The plug-in, called "Look Suite," is a single plug-in which loads into the "Effects Bin" like any other plug-in, along with all the "Misfire" plug-ins (there are a number of them). Within minutes, I had re-launched Final Cut and was ready to start tweaking. Installation was quick and simple with the "installer" doing all the heavy lifting for me. My download version of the software included an installer, a Final Cut Pro project file containing the "Look Suite" presets, and a 58-page pdf manual that is well-written and even goes so far as making some well-advised recommendations about shooting video for use with "Magic Bullet Editors." (As I downloaded the software and have only Macs running Final Cut Pro, I can speak only about the Mac/FCP version of the software.) The CD (if you choose that option) comes with both the Mac and PC versions and includes both a tutorial project and some sample footage. And all for the amazing low price of just $299 ($279 if you just want to download the software directly from their website)! In addition, the new package, called "Magic Bullet Editors," also contains a set of plug-ins called "MisFire," which allow you to add dust, scratches, flicker and just about anything else you can think of to mangle your footage. They've also made it available as a plug-in that runs on both PCs and Macs in Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and Sony Vegas. Two years later, having shot a dark, edgy, ten-minute short on my Panasonic DVX-100, I no longer needed the 24p conversion, but was still sold on the "Look Suite" portion of the software - convinced that "Magic Bullet" would get me the look I desired.įortunately, the makers of "Magic Bullet" have recently taken the "Look Suite" portion of their software and re-packaged it separately for those of us who don't need (or want?) the 24p conversion. I soon grew desperate to get my hands on this miracle of technology, but found my enthusiasm crushed by the $1,000 price tag. The software was called "Magic Bullet," and while I was no conspiracy theorist, I became a believer in the "Magic Bullet" theory after spending just a few minutes on their website Red Giant Software looking at samples. Two years ago, a friend told me about this "amazing" piece of software that would take 60i video and convert it to 24p (twenty-four progressive frames per second) making it look "just like film." In addition, I was told that the software came with a "Look Suite" which contained customizable controls and presets that simulated different film stocks and "looks." Intel Pentium 4 single or dual-processor system or equivalent Mac OS X 10.2 or later and 512 MB of RAM or more Apple Power Mac G4 or G5 (dual-processor recommended)
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