The Art of Color, Magic Bullet Looks with Sony EX1 footage

Before and After Color Correction using Magic Bullet Looks.
Sometimes subtle, sometimes extreme, adding color can go a long way in storytelling.
Several looks were used in this piece however all were custom built, mainly because the default ones suck. Lots of color was pushed well beyond the norm but those are also the shots that attract brides the most. Final Color version also online. From www.hdinvision.com

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[deion807]

So all of the 8mm film type effects were just handmade and applied in editing? You willing to share any of your photoshop files for those?!?! Good stuff. Very well done.

[HDinVision]

@deion807 yes, I start in photoshop and make random symbols mix 2 dirty colors together then start to add tons of texture filters and start mixing the layers with heavy use of the color burn and hard light mixing options.

I then take these layers to an effects program to animate them. Sprockets and film frames are just basic rounded rectangle shapes repeated with a transparent hole.

[siby23]

"Looks" for color? who is the vendor of this plug in?

[HDinVision]

@siby23 Red Giant Software, it works for most any post program

[HDinVision]

@FoomMan Since my projects start and end 1080p, adobe's encoding problem is not a big issue for me, but I can see how it impacts and pisses off web video people. I professionaly edit on the Smoke but for this kind of stuff I have found primere the fastest to work on in my editing style, especially wih the massive audio tweaking I do. For most people, I wouldn't recommend it over anything else. But if you can dedicate a custom made system to only it and know how to make it, it can fly.

[FoomMan]

@HDinVision It's a real shame. I've always used Vegas for my projects, but this piece has so many After Effects shots that I decided to just nest them. Vegas's YouTube presets are so clean and usable... I'm astounded at just how poor the CS5 YouTube setting is.

[HDinVision]

@FoomMan Never use premiere to encode anything, I can't stress it enough how much it sucks. I personally use CS3 for the sole purpose of bypassing their encoder in favor of a direct video export. Either do uncompressed, cineform (I use) or even still sequence. Then take that footage into a real encoder such as TMPGenc and make whatever you want. Never use adobe for mpeg anything unless you want soft, blocky or generally ugly video. Its only a shame that youtube version is ugly too.

[FoomMan]

Silly question- what settings did you export this with? I'm having a real hard time getting Premiere to give me a satisfactory looking video on YouTube, yet I never had an issue with Vegas.

[McSuperfly101]

I'm thinking about getting Adobe Premiere Elements 9, is Magic Bullet available for that too?

[ed777vs]

nice video!!!!