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Title: Magic Bullet Evolves 'Film Look'

Author: Thoresen, Bjorn Article Type: Review
Source: Videography, v29 n1 p22(2) Publication Date: Jan 2004
  ISSN: 0363-1001
  Illustrations: Charts
URL of Publication: http://www.videography.com

Red Giant Software's Magic Bullet suite for post-production video work gets excellent marks, especially for power, ease of use, and support for advanced customization. The basis of the Magic Bullet is 24p conversion, a suite of plug-ins that can be use to correct 4:1:1 color-compression artifacts in DV footage, make sure that video levels are safe for broadcast, create letterboxing bars, give dissolves and fades a film-like quality, or apply a suite of color- correction presents to an image. During testing (on various types of footage and for conversion of a 30i video project edited to 24p), Magic Bullet (which can convert PAL and NTSC interlaced video to progressive video) was not tested for PAL abilities. Magic bullet runs as an After Effects plug-in and requires After Effects 5.5 or higher. Documentation is well written and is a good reference on how to use the software. It presents a concept of the software design and how to best shoot and prepare video for processing with Magic Bullet. A description is provided of tests that consisted of the processing of a short film and use of the results of 24p conversion. Magic Bullet also can create 30p video from 30i. Results of its deinterlacing were compared to that of a demo version of DV Film Maker.

Special Features: Charts

Companies:
Red Giant Software LLC

Products:
Magic Bullet Suite

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