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Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite
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The Stats
- Developer: Red Giant Software
- Version: 2009
- Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows
- Compatibility with After Effects and Premiere CS4, Compatibility with Final Cut Studio 3, Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility, Microsoft Vista Compatibility and FxPlug
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- Magic Bullet Suite
- Magic Bullet Academic Version
- Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite Crossgrade from Digieffects Cinelook
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Description
Magic Bullet Suite 2007 is a completely revamped product. Magic Bullet Suite now supports After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro, and Avid. The full suite of tools includes Magic Bullet Looks (including Misfire), Magic Bullet Frames, Magic Bullet Colorista, and Instant HD for high-quality up-conversion.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks
Magic Bullet Looks includes an entirely new stand-alone application AND a plug-in. Designed by industry leaders, the cutting-edge user interface makes it much easier to create Looks. Includes 36 tools for everything from simple exposure adjustment to radical color changes. This is a whole new way to define your image.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Frames
Magic Bullet Frames offers fast and high-quality conversion of 60i materials to 24p, or just de-interlacing of video in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Motion, and Premiere Pro.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Colorista
Magic Bullet Colorista is the same exciting color correction tool that we launched in 2006 with new support for After Effects CS3 Professional, Premiere Pro 3, and updates to support Intel Mac processors in all editors.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Instant HD
Instant HD up-converts DV video into a variety of HD video formats. Choose from a list of preset resolutions to easily integrate DV video into your next High Definition production. When scaling from standard definition (SD) to high definition (HD), the missing pixels must be generated in an intelligent way. Instant HD provides a high-quality method for converting SD sources to HD within your favorite video application.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Steady
Unwanted camera movement can be distracting and disturbing to viewers. Enlist the powerful algorithms of Magic Bullet Steady, which will analyze your video, detect motion, and apply one of three filtering modes. The result will be smooth, stabilized motion that preserves camera pans and other desired movements. Other customizable controls remove noise and other low-light artifacts.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Mojo
Mojo adds the look of a Hollywood blockbuster movie to your footage with one click, making skin tones pop while adding drama and smooth contrast to any shot.
Magic Bullet History
Born At The Orphanage
Magic Bullet made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001. In 2000, Stu Maschwitz and Jonathan Rothbart left Industrial Light & Magic to fulfill their dream of making movies, and founded The Orphanage, an effects house in San Francisco. Their background in high-end visual effects technology and film school experience led them to the conclusion that it was possible to make high-quality movies without shooting a single frame of film.
Their objective, of course, was to tell interesting stories but use simple DV cameras and Adobe After Effects software to give a DV movie the same feel as film. The challenge was that DV cameras lacked the high-end production quality and the organic look and feel of traditional film. After many late nights and much trial and error, Stu developed the complex algorithms that could enable DV video to get the frame rate and the "look" of a movie shot on film. He called it "Magic Bullet."
The Magic Bullet software combined both a frame rate conversion system to convert DV video (usually shot at 60 fields per second) to film frame rates (usually 24 fps), and a look tool that allowed the user to transform the harsh and sometimes overly saturated look of DV video to the subtle look of film. The Orphanage used the Magic Bullet technology on their first short film, which debuted at the Sundance film festival in 2001.
Branching Out
Magic Bullet Suite v1.0 was released to the public in November 2002, and in 2003, The Orphanage partnered with Red Giant Software to help with distribution and development of Magic Bullet. Almost immediately after its release, users began clamoring to use the toolset directly inside the tools that they used the most: their video editor. In June 2004, the Looks Suite plug-in portion of Magic Bullet Suite was spun off separately and called Magic Bullet Editors.
With support for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Avid Xpress Pro and Sony Vegas host applications, Magic Bullet Editors gave users the ability to create Looks inside their video editing timeline. Magic Bullet Editors also included Misfire, a new set of plug-ins for simulating film damage. In October 2005, Magic Bullet Editors 2 was released and really took off, with dramatic GPU-based acceleration that delivered real-time SD rendering and playback. Overwhelming popularity led Adobe, Sony, and Panasonic to bundle versions of Magic Bullet with their software and camera products.
Since 2004, Magic Bullet users have demanded a color correction tool that was fast, easy to use, and which had the same quality as Look Suite. Staking out a new area for Magic Bullet, Magic Bullet Colorista debuted in December 2006 to rave reviews. Colorista features a common color wheel interface for correction using the Lift, Gamma, Gain color model; and masking features that can confine a correction to a selected area. Colorista takes advantage of the user's graphics card to deliver serious speed and power. Users of every stripe have flocked to the tool and used it on broadcast spots, including 7 episodes of the Food Network's Good Eats show; national commercials for Kanomi and Qualcomm; and independent films, including Corey Rosen's Walls and Windows.
What's Next
Now Magic Bullet is changing the game again. The Magic Bullet line now includes four separate products: Colorista, Frames, Looks and Instant HD for color correction and film output like you've never seen before.
Why Buy
- Everything you need for SD to HD or Film output with high-quality frame rate conversion
- Includes primary (Colorista) color correction tools and Looks in one package for all your color correction needs
- Works in a wide variety of host applications
- Save $200 over the cost of buying individual products
- Includes the standalone LooksBuilder tool to design Looks on set
Why Upgrade
- Includes an all-new Looks engine that offers floating-point quality in all hosts
- LooksBuilder interface makes it easier and faster to create custom Looks
- Share preset Looks with colleagues or use new Look presets available from the web
- Colorista offers familiar color correction tools that are easily accessible with simple color wheels and basic masking in all your host applications
- Instant HD delivers high quality up-conversion results for converting SD to HD
- Frames offers fast and high-quality conversion right on the timeline
System Requirements
Our tests have shown that our products perform best when used with the system configurations listed below. Although many of our products will run on older or less-powerful systems, those listed below are the minimum system requirements which we support.
Apple Macintosh
- Mac OSX 10.4.11 and later*
- Power Mac G5, Mac Intel
- 1 GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
*Updating from Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.5.2 or later will in most cases solve compatibility issues. Please update your operating system before contacting support
PC / Windows
- Windows XP SP1 or later
- Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit
- Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or faster (or AMD equivalent)
- 1 GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
Host Applications
Primatte Keyer Pro runs in a variety of host applications. Each purchase and serial number allows the owner to use the product on more than one host application but only on a single computer at any one time. Except where noted, the features are the same in all systems and host applications.
- Adobe After Effects CS4, CS3, 7
- Apple Final Cut Pro 7, 6, 5.1.4
- Apple Motion 3.0.2, 4
- Avid Xpress Pro/Media Composer 5.5, 5.6 / 2.6, 2.7
Please ensure that the host version is compatible with your operating system. Check with application provider for specifics.
