Magic Bullet Editors

Product

Magic Bullet Editors

Category

Video Effects tools

Brief Description

The cost of video,the look of Film !!!

Main Features

Make any video source look like film including DV, HDV, HD, Beta Cam & DigiBeta
NEW Includes 65 presets that mimic popular TV and film "looks"
Includes looks inspired by The Matrix, Traffic, & Three Kings
NEW Compression Correction™ engine removes DV & HDV artifacts for a smoother results

Create and save your own unique looks
Soften the harsh edges and over saturated colors of video
Provides 14 filters that accurately mimic damage of old film
Film damage includes grain, splotches, scratches and projection artifacts
NEW Uses proprietary DeepColor™ RT technology delivering the highest quality output in up to real-time
Optimized for Power Mac G5 and Intel Pentium 4

Uses

Create and save your own unique looks.
Add grain and scratches to mimic the look of old film with powerful film damage controls.
Apply proprietary DeepColor™ technology to deliver professional quality output.
Easy to use and install … drop preset on timeline … render … done.
Used by NBC, ABC, Disney, and Time Warner, on thousands of professional projects from Vanilla Sky to Nike commercials.

What makes Magic Bullet technology the de facto standard for professionals?

Over 20,000 users worldwide
DeepColor™ technology We use a proprietary rendering technology, called DeepColor that processes pixels at four times the precision of similar applications and applies floating point imaging processing to ensure the highest possible output quality
Look Suite™ technology Visually calibrated controls that mimic actual physical filters used by film cinematographers, delivering unmatched film-like results

Magic Bullet Looks

Magic Bullet Editors includes more than 55 looks.many inspired by movies and television shows

Looks inspired by TV and film

The Matrix - Neo

Traffic I - Mexicali

Saving Private Ryan - Bleach Bypass

Traffic II - Ohio

Amellie - Bistro

Three Kings - Color Reversal

Band of Brothers - Curahee

1932 Technicolor™ - Epic

Bad Boys - Miami

Jerry Maguire - Warn & Fuzzy

Early films - Sephia Red

TV commercial - Pastel Cuban

Car commercials - Basic Cool

Skin tones - Soft Skin

Music videos - Punchy

The Cost of Video, the Look of Film™

"It costs about $70 per minute per camera to shoot 35mm film when you factor in the cost of film stock, lab processing, film-to-tape transfer and color correction..... Whereas, if the show shoots in HD video, the cost is only about $2 per minute per camera..." Robert Seidel, VP engineering CBS Television Network, from Post Magazine (Sept 2004)

Comparison between the 2 magic bullet products

There are two Magic Bullet products to choose from, Magic Bullet Suite and Magic Bullet Editors. A summary of the product features is outlined below.

Product Summary

Magic Bullet Suite, the parent technology, is our premiere product developed for professionals that will result in your best film-look for video by addressing both the speed and look characteristics of film. Along with a true 24p conversion and our proprietary Look Suite color controls and Misfire Film Damage filters, the Suite allows you to generate beautiful film-like cross-dissolves, crop your output to standard film and television aspect ratios simply and effectively, and tests and fixes your video to meet NTSC broadcast specifications.

Magic Bullet Editors is a professional tool that yields outstanding film-look results by providing you all color control and presets of the Magic Bullet Look Suite plug-in in your video editing application. This product works on any video material and can add richness to NTSC, PAL, HD, HDV or 24p footage. You also get a powerful tool to simulate the damage of old film, like grain, splotches, and scratches—as well as projection artifacts like flicker and gate weave.

Which product do we recommend for your camera?

Interlaced cameras (Includes the Sony's HDR-FX1, HVR-Z1U & PD170, Canon's XL1 & GL2)
If you shoot in a NTSC, PAL, HD or HDV interlaced format (60i or 50i) and wish to achieve the 24p filmic look plus soften your video and add a unique look Magic Bullet Suite is your best choice.
Progressive scan cameras - 24p or other (Includes Panasonic's DVX100(A), Canon's XL2, and JVC's JY-HD10U)
If you shoot in a NTSC, PAL, HD or HDV 24p or another progressive format, frame mode, use your own deinterlacing techiques, or do not wish to use After Effects and want to soften your video and add a unique look Magic Bullet Editors is your best choice

User Comments

"Magic Bullet Editors is exactly that—a magic bullet. I now shoot in a new way, taking new chances, knowing that I can make a shot truly remarkable, even with DV. My clients are amazed by the images I return to them. With Magic Bullet Editors, I can finish in Final Cut Pro, making my life immensely less complicated when it comes time for revisions. Many of the innovative looks in current films, music videos, and commercials are available in post, without the hefty price-tag of shooting film. Now my color correct sessions are thrilling,"
Todd Sali, Videography and President of thesandbox

"Magic Bullet Editors is one of those must-have plug-in suites..."
Mark Bennett, MacUser

"...the Magic Bullet Editors plug-in suite for Apple’s Final Cut Pro delivers industrial-strength tools for softening and color-correcting digital video, and imparts a slick, analog sheen to existing DV footage."
David Biedny, MacAddict

Compare the two Magic Bullet products

Supports HD & new Sony HDV camera

System Requirements

Magic Bullet Editors is a plug-in and requires a host application to operate.

Magic Bullet Editors requires one of the following

Final Cut Pro v4.1 (or later, including 5.0)
Motion 2.0
Premiere Pro v1.5 (or later, including v2.0)
Vegas 5.0 (or later)
Avid Xpress or Media Composer (requires AVX 1.5)

Does not work in the following (We are considering supporting all of these host applications)

Apple Final Cut Express
Avid Liquid Edition
Canopus Edius
Ulead products
Adobe After Effects

This plugin does not work with Final Cut Xpress.

Minimum system requirement

Mac OSX 10.3 G4 or higher, 256 RAM
Windows XP or 2000 Pentium 3 600MHz (or equivalent), 256 RAM

More information

www.redgiantsoftware.com

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