#Magic bullet looks 2014 skin#
#Magic bullet looks 2014 pro#
#Magic bullet looks 2014 professional#

I don’t recall the previous version having that cool feature. What is also great about all of the presets is the realtime rendering of the effects - that is faster than the previous version - with a display of the tools used as you hover over them. These allow you to colour grade your footage without having to start from scratch - very useful! The new presets that I liked the most are the grading setups and headstart looks.

Red Giant claims to have added 198 new customisable presets compared to version 2 and I don’t doubt there word one second. The presets department is downright impressive now. Meanwhile, Magic Bullet Looks 3.0 has more in store than just good looking font rendering. All gone now, clean, sharp, as it should be. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who was put off by the ugly jaggies and blotchiness of the previous version’s font rendition. The best way to admire the improvements is to open Preferences and take a good look at the font rendering. It’s also very clear from the finally clean and sharp fonts used throughout. That’s immediately reflected in the mouse-hover behaviour of the drawers for Looks (presets) and Tools. Magic Bullet Looks 3.0 has a refreshed interface and better user experience.

#Magic bullet looks 2014 pro#

Personally, I don’t mind not having presets for Mojo in Final Cut Pro X, as Magic Bullet Suite includes Looks 3.0, which has all the presets you can wish for. fcp files cannot be read by Final Cut Pro X, so that doesn’t work. You can get them back by installing the included. In fact, the presets that were in the previous version have all gone. I found Mojo working a lot faster - no more spinning wheels! - but with the same set of controls as in the previous version. The styliser that gives your footage a grunge or “Bayou” look has been updated as well. Like all other Magic Bullet modules, it uses your GPU to achieve highest speed. In Adobe products it’s faster than the previous version. The smoothing works well, but it takes a bit of exercise in order not to apply too much ‘correction’.Ĭosmo used well and within reason is really brilliant and in Final Cut Pro X it works like a charm and really fast. It’s amazing how quickly you can change a healthy person in a really sick one this way! Or vice versa, of course. With the Cosmo controls, you can see which areas Cosmo correctly recognised, then fine-tune the results using sliders and apply both tint and smoothing.

#Magic bullet looks 2014 skin#

Just like other apps (or was Cosmo first and did the others follow?) in Red Giant’s portfolio, Cosmo ‘sees’ skin tones using a fairly intelligent algorithm that recognises skin colours. Cosmo 2.0Ĭosmo is, to put it simply, a skin enhancer.

#Magic bullet looks 2014 professional#

I know you’re not supposed to use Log when shooting in Protune CamRAW with a HERO3+, but should I use Flat or Video? Professional film producers may know it, I am not so sure. There’s one thing that I lacked in Magic Bullet Film: a thorough explanation of when you better use the initial “Flat” setting in the footage type drop down menu. Film also lets you protect skin tones, something other film emulation plug-ins won’t. The adjustments in terms of hue, tint, grain, etc are slider based and with realtime visual feedback, are as simple as they get. The combination allows for endless variations.

Magic Bullet Film gives you a generous choice of negative films to choose from and four “print” films for output. That makes it a bit more complicated to work with, but to be honest: much more rewarding. Let’s start with the new module in all supported hosts. I also briefly tried it within Adobe After Effects. I tested Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite 12 with Final Cut Pro X. Those two apps unfortunately haven’t been updated and still only run in the Adobe apps After Effects and Premiere Pro. The Suite also includes Denoiser II and LUT Buddy. I tried every one of them and had a lot of fun, not in the least because this is the first truly professional colour grading/looks suite that I don’t have to switch applications for to work with. The new Suite includes one completely new application, Magic Bullet Film, and new versions of Looks, Colorista, Mojo and Cosmo (which also for the first time runs within Final Cut Pro X). That’s the first big change - improvement in my book - that makes Magic Bullet Suite 12 a need-to-upgrade. It preferred Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro or FCP 7. Until recently, Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Suite didn’t run from within Final Cut Pro X. Magic Bullet Suite apps are also faster and the interface fonts finally look perfect. You don’t need Adobe After Effects anymore to get perfect skin colour or to work with Colorista. With Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite 12, you get a myriad ways to create perfect video in terms of colour accuracy, colour creativity and film emulation - in any editing environment, including Final Cut Pro X.