Magic Bullet Looks: Side by Side Comparison (Adobe After Effects CS4)

- The second in the series of Magic Bullet Looks videos -

Using Red Giant's Magic Bullet Looks v1.4, I colour grade some HD video, and place it side by side with the original footage to show the comparison between graded and non colour graded footage.

Magic Bullet Looks has hundreds of preset styles which can be customised to your liking and in this video, each clip has had a different style added to it, as well as custom features such as vignettes, contrast curves and lens flares.

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The comparison is between raw footage shot on a Sony HDR-XR200 and footage colour graded in Adobe After Effects CS4 using Red Giant's Magic Bullet Looks.

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Film & Animation

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• Red
• Giant
• Magic
• Bullet
• Looks
• v1.4
• Adobe
• After
• Effects
• CS4
• HD
• How
• to
• use
• Sony
• HDR-XR200
• Marden
• Vegas
• 64-bit
• Trapcode
• Particular

[dayofchaosfilms]

The Macs at my school have MBL installed on both Final Cut, Premiere Pro and After Effects, and although the styles Magic Bullet provide may look fancy, I always end up using the built in colour editing plugins. From my person experience and opinion, once everyone uses the plugin, your personal film style is kind of stunted, and your production feels mediocre.

[RosserProductions]

@dayofchaosfilms I use a mixture. You have to be conservative when using plugins like this; I use the built in tools all the time and I will be doing some videos of thaat soon too. One thing I do like about MBL is the fact that you can customise the preset styles - keeping the same general style, but changing features of the style to suit what you need.

[JRTET21]

i can do all those without plugins. MBL is way overrated imo, and everything there can be achieved using premiere and after effects with a few more clicks.

[dayofchaosfilms]

@RosserProductions Yeah, I know what you can do with it. But I found the in built plugins in the editing suits offered you a lot more control over the image, and rendered much faster. I also consider it 'lazy grading' when you take someone elses preset, and mix it to your liking, becuase you aren't really doing all the work. I'm not telling you it's a bad plugin, because well, it really depends on how you use it.. But, I wouldn't use it myself.

[HillierSmithStudios]

Blockbuster is by far the best one in magic bullet!!!! It suited it perfectly with my Assassin's Creed movie, not sure if you have seen it

[TheBullseyeStudios]

Well, I was gonna try the trial out, but it kept crashing my After Effects :/

[superfreaktelevision]

nice job! :D keep it up

SFTV

[1SplitProductions]

That looks very nice :)

[alexiofilms]

Damn, that looks great =)

[dcsfilmproductions]

its not trapecode magic bullet its red giant's magic bullet.........