Red Giant Magic Bullet Colorista... FREE!

OK, so maybe that subject is a little misleading
Red Giant has made available a free version of Magic Bullet Colorista; it's stripped down in comparison to Colorista II (at least that's my understanding... I don't use Colorista) but still has some decent functionality. It works in both Premiere Pro and After Effects CS5, and previews quickly even on my older laptop with DVCPROHD. Regardless of functionality, free plug-ins are good plug-ins
Get it here: Red Giant Software: Free Products
(You can also get Knoll Unmult for CS5 there; unfortunately, this version doesn't work in Premiere Pro CS5, whereas the earlier version worked really well in CS3/CS4. It works well in AECS5, though.)

Make sure that Magic Bullet Looks and After Effects are both up to date. If your AE version is earlier than CS6 then make sure that you have the proper versions of AE and Looks installed.

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Red Giant Magic Bullet looks funktioniert nicht

Hallo Leute,ich habe ein Problem mit meinem Red Giant Magic Bullet looks.Immer wenn ich es starte,dann wird mir"After Effects kann nicht fortgesetzt werden:After Effects ist abgestürzt.Hilfe und Support zu After Effects finden sie unter https://www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_support_de."Ich habe es schon mehrmals de-und installiert und dennoch wird dieser Text immer angezeigt.Was soll ich jz machen?

Make sure that Magic Bullet Looks and After Effects are both up to date. If your AE version is earlier than CS6 then make sure that you have the proper versions of AE and Looks installed.

CS6 Install of Magic Bullet Colorista Free

I'm considering installation of Colorista Free (C-Free) for use with CS6.
I've researched download and install steps, but they could be interpreted as being useless unless CS5.5 had already been installed on the target machine.
(The instructions are to dowload, install, then move items from a CS5.5 folder(s) to a CS6 folder(s).
My CS6 installation was done to a brand new, vendor-built computer, for which the vendor installed CS6, and the computer never had CS5.5 installed. Consequently, there are no CS5.5 folders for C-Free to be installed to, nor would there be CS5.5 folders to move from.
My fear is hosing my current CS6 installation, which is working very well for me.
Has anyone installed MB C-Free to a CS6-only installation? The correct steps to follow would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Colorista Free is not compatible with CS6 and causes crashes, so it's a moot point. They promised to fix it but they never did. For anything beyond that contact Red Giant/ check their forum and support.
Mylenium

Magic Bullet Colorista II 64 bit After Effects CS5 crash

Red Giant Magic Bullet Colorista II 64 bit After Effects CS5 (windows 7) crash after apply to composition.
There are messages I get before After Effects are down.
Can I can fix anything?
Thanks!

Colorista uses OpenGL acceleration, so it's probably graphics related. Without knowing what card you have and what your settings are it will be impossible to advise, but of course look into the configuration, update the driver, work at a lower resolution and all the otehr usual first steps of tracking down the issues...
Mylenium

Magic Bullet Colorista & Color correction w/o it

I can't seem to make Magic Bullet Colorista to install on my system and I've given up with it. I'm just curious, is there any way to do what it does with the AE supplied effects? Maybe some tutorial on it? Sorry, I haven't done much of the color correction before.
Thank you!

The 64 bit version of Colorista for CS4 and CS5 has only been out for a few days, I think. So unless you tried this brand new version, your test was not an accurate representation of what the software can do on your system.
The key about these types of after market plugins is that they claim to do things faster than you can do otherwise. You can certainly do great color correction with the included tools right in AE. But which is "easiest" and how often to do you need to do this is the question that one should consider to determine the worthyness of an external plug-in like this one.
I agree that Red Giant was a bit late to the game with their 64 bit compatible plug-ins. They should have seen this coming and got them working long before CS5 came out. They act like they are doing their customers a favor by releasing 64 bit system compatible plug-ins and charging for the upgrade in the process. I can see where they are loosing a lot of potential clients due to this.

Which Magic Bullet.

There seems to be a few magic Bullet editors on sale,
Red Giant Magic Bullet editors
Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite
Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite Unlimited Bundle
Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite Render Unlimited
Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite Upgrade
Red Giant Magic Bullet Bundle
The editors is chaper but I dont wanna buy that on eto find out that I have to spend more money on it going forward. Any ideas which one to get?
Daz

Editors is an add-on for Final Cut Pro, Premiere and a couple of others. Suite is for After Effects only, with a few extra tools for 24p conversion. I don't know about the others.
But Red Giant's site is not showing these any more. They are only offering Magic Bullet Looks and Magic Bullet Colorista. These are more advanced tools so it looks like the others might have been discontinued.

I am having problem when I am installing magic bullet look 1.4 please help

Hi, I am having an issue with my Red giant magic bullet look 1.4
When I am installing this plug ins I receive a message saying: your graphic card did not meet the minimum requirement but actually my graphic card did meet the requirement and I was looking at the requirement for this in website and my Gcard met the requirement. Why is it not installing?
please help me
I use premiere pro CS3
Win 7 OS 64bit
My graphic card is: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (Microsoft corporation-WDDM v1.1)
The minimum requirements for the plug ins are: Magic Bullet Looks supports a wide range of cards from both ATI or NVIDIA. For ATI cards, we require a 9600 XT or greater, or an X series card starting with the X700 series. Cards with greater model numbers and at least 128 MB of RAM can run the Looks engine.
For NVIDIA cards, we support the 6600 model and higher or QuadroFX 1300 and up. Cards with higher model numbers and a minimum of 128 MB of RAM can run Looks. For users working with HD images, we require that the video card have at least 256 MB of RAM. In all cases, we suggest using the latest video drivers for your graphics card.
Please Note Since all media is processed at 32 bit, you will absolutely need a 256 MB graphics card or larger. For newer cards from ATI and NVIDIA, we recommend a minimum of 320 MB of RAM. For 2K projects, we recommend 512 MB or a larger amount of RAM on the graphics card.

Run this.
http://www.maxon.net/downloads/cinebench/cinebench-115.html
Report back the results.

Has anyone tried Red Giant Denoiser II in Compressor?

Hi
I hope you can help me out. I've started using denoiser II and find it works great in FCP, although it does slow it down a bit. The issue I'm having is in compressor for a one and half hour project, it might take 6-7 hours to encode but when I've used denoiser II on 12 mins of that 1hr and half film, it has increased the encode time to over 27hours? (still encoding so not sure how long it is going to take). Have I done something wrong? Or why is it taking so long to encode? Can anyone help?
All clips are Apple pro res442 1080HD. I use an imac, OSx 10.6.8
Many thanks
Kaylee

Hi Russ
Yes, all that's right. Sorry, didn't give enough information. It's the Red giant Magic Bullet denoiser plug in which I bought and downloaded to my FCP a couple of days ago. I was editing a project which had about 12 mins of noisey footage at the end. All the clips are apple prores 422 and I send it to compressor from FCP in drop down menu send to> compressor.
In compressor I use 'DVD best quality 90 mins', which i use as standard and it finished last night after taking around 33 and a half hours to turn into the video and audio files I then put into DVD studio pro. It usually takes me about 6 hours or so for this paticular process so I'm wondering if I've done something wrong with this plug-in? Or if anyone has used denoiser II and gone through this process before?
I use a Mac OSX version 10.6.8. Memory is 8GB. The processor is 3.06 Ghz Intel core 2 duo.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Kaylee

Photoshop cc problem with Magic Bullet Looks 2 !

I am having trouble with using Red Giants' Magic Bullet photolooks 2 plugin with PS CS6 (32&64).
The standalone program works fine on its own but fails to launch properly from PS's filter menu. It tries to launch the app but then reports an error Sorry, an error occurred (12288), Corrupted memory profile, then an error Can't open dest profile. These errors can't be cleared except by going into task manager to kill the app. Photoshop reports the error as LooksBuilder failed to launch. Please ensure the application has not been renamed or moved from the install location and then Could not complete the Photolooks command because of a problem with the filter module interface.
Please Help
i heard that the fix is by the color management , but i dont know how

Disable those plugins until you can get an update from the plugin manufacturer. Just change the name of the folder they're in to start with ~ and relaunch Photoshop.
Also, the magic bullet looks have nothing to do with color management.

Red Giant's DeNoiser II in Premiere CS6?

I usually use Neat Video but I do not own the Premiere version so I thought I'd give Red Giant's noise reduction a try. I'm impressed with the quality but find that with a few instances of the plugin on clips Premiere slows so much that just making changes to the plugin settings is not very functional without long pauses. I tested the Neat video limited version and it does not have this problem. Am I doing someting wrong? I have an i7, 12gb of ram and a 570 card. Other Red Giant plugins like Colorista and Looks work fine for me.
Thanks, Marc

I played around with it some more and read about other people having the same issues. It's slow as molasses not just during rendering but even when trying to make adjustments or turn the effect on and off. I ended up buying a Neat Video license for Premiere which seems to work with no problems.

Magic Bullet "V" FCP Color

Anyone use both? Whats your thoughts, which is better? Heard that color is pretty hard to use??

Here is my thought.
Are you a colorist? Then don't use COLOR. Color is a highly professional color correction application. It isn't as simple as the 3-way, it requires a pretty strict workflow and set of codecs. It has a lot of settings internally that you need to do right. CAN you pick it up? Yes...I have, because I had to. I have two tutorial DVDs and I had a week to play and figure things out. I even had people I could call and have them help me figure out the more trickier aspects. And I STILL only use the PRIMARY room.
Are you just an editor that wants to produce great looking color corrected footage? Look at Magic Bullet COLORISTA. It has a very familiar looking interface (looks like the 3-way), allows you better control over the colors and allows you to push them to the extremes more that the 3-way allows. And you can color correct in FCP. You can monitor your timeline the way you normally would if DV via firewire. But if you are working with HD then yes, you need an HD monitor and HD capture card to see how you are REALLY affecting the colors.
MB Looks? That is GRADING software to give your footage a certain look. It does not allow you to view this footage on an external monitor (from what I have heard) so you cannot really tell what it looks like. Plus you can only see one frame, not the whole clip, so if the shadows and highlights change throughout the shot, then you can't see that to adjust. But you can use that to get a basic look, then tweak with the 3-way or Colorista.
Bottom line...if you are not wanting to be a colorist, I say avoid COLOR. Use Colorista or the 3-way.
(NOTE...Colorista still clamps anything over 100IRE down to 100IRE, so you need to adjust it down with the ProcAmp or 3-wa before you add Colorista).
My Humble Opinion. Color isn't simple to use, and isn't for everyone.
Shane

Red line with Magic Bullet Looks

Magic Bullet Looks in the Video Effects panel shows as a 32 GPU accelerated effect.
However, when I add it to a clip in timeline one, two or three, I go from no lines (including yellow) to a red line above that clip.
If it's a GPU accelerated effect why am I seeing a red line above the clip when I add that effect?
My card is a 285 that works fine with everthing else.

Magic Bullit Looks is not a accelerated effect, so that is why you are seeing the red line.
Effects with the icon on the left are accelerated.

CODEC Support - Red Giant Bullet-Proof Understanding Ingest-Export Sequence Choices?

I shoot with a Canon EOS C100 that records AVCHD internally. I also use a Ninja Blade to record DNxHD at 220 Mps. I find no built-in support for either of these formats in Bullet Proof and Premiere Pro. Is there a reason for that?
I'm trying to understand why the default export is MJPEG. For some reason, I thought that was an old codec no longer used. And it takes forever for Bullet Proof to export it. I have a very fast computer with an X99 2011 v3 chipset and 64 GB RAM, an Areca 12G RAID controller with a 16TB RAID 5 attached. And SSD for backup storage.
I don't mind editing MJPEG. I just don't know if it is the best I could do, or if it's better to edit the original AVCHD. In other words, If I ingest AVCHD footage, is it best to transcode it to MJPEG or another format for editing? Since there is no preset for AVCHD, what then should my edit settings be?
I also still do not understand the reasoning for the complex folder structure coming off the C100. I have read that it is important to leave that structure intact, but I don't see the benefit. Premiere has no use for it, it seems.

with the constant changes to adobe's software, its helpful to know which version we are talking about. alot of people ask questions here with older versions of the software...
if premiere doesn't get your footage right when making a new sequence, then choose one that matches the footage the best by resolution and fps. you can also click on the settings tab, when making a new sequence, to customize it exactly to your needs. you can even save this as a preset that will show in the first tab with the default presets, so if you plan on using these media alot, you wont have to remake the custom sequence each time.
im not exactly sure what all you do in bulletproof, so i hinted at prelude since it does let you transcode to alot more codecs. prelude is an ingest program, you can trim clips (but only if transcoding), add metadata & markers, and have it export to multiple locations as the original and/or in different formats. prelude will only show presets when transcoding, so if you need a different one you will have to open adobe media encoder and make a new preset in there. then it will show in prelude. i like red giants software, but bulletproof export codecs seem rather limited. if the pass-through option just copies and doesn't re-encode then that might work for you.
when exporting from premiere you can also choose a preset close to your media and then customize it to your needs. you can even save it as a preset to recall later. i would stick with dnxhd for export, especially if you plan on bringing it back into premiere. dnxhd is very high quality if choosing its high bitrate format. there are several options for dnxhd 220, one should match your Ninja Blade. these are found under the quicktime format and video codec as avid dnxhd. its also available in mxf format.
adobe's presets try to cover a wide range of cameras and media but can only cover so many, new ones coming out all the time... in sequence settings and export you have full control to customize it to your media and needs.

Red Giant Colorista Plugin

Does Zeb, or any other serious colorist, have comment about Red Giant's Colorista plugin for FCP?

really what the Colorista do that 3 way can't?
DAVE
the main thing is a "power window." to do that now within fcp, one has to make a mask shape, duplicate the clip and what have you. not hard but once you've been on a da vinci, this capability within colorista is very cool and to me it's the main selling point. the two quicktime movies red giant put up there are extremely bad at selling this product.
i also like the way the color balance wheels work, i think they work better than apple's 3 way. if i have a color in mind, i can use apple's color picker to get there immediately rather than dragging a dot and mouse all over my desk.
i really do not like color finesse at all, i have the ae plug-in and as i can't see cf working on my monitor, it's kinda useless. if i had a job paying for a card that i could get video out, i may take a different look at it.
i wish i could have seen final touch in action but i couldn't get the demo as i still have a g4. apparently the integration with fcp was less than adequate and you can read all the tales of woe on the cow. it will be interesting to see how apple integrates final touch.
like anything, these are tools and obviously not every carpenter swings the same hammer. it's not a perfect application but from my little testing today, i think it works well, just not very well on a laptop. looking forward to testing it on my desktop mac.

Red Giant Denoiser II not working with certain clips

HI all,
I have a 25 minute wedding video that I have been unsuccessfully trying to export and sign off on nfor the last week and the problem seems to lie with Denoiser II. There were some clips that were corrupted by me using Denoiser on them so I had to take the effect off. However I am also having a problem in that the denoiser effects seems to 'flicker' during clips - ie it works for a second, then stops so noise appears, then works again for a second, then stops etc etc. The footage was shot on a dslr, 24fps. I shot a short film with the same clips and used denoiser a few weeks previously with no problems. The only thing that differs is the amount of other effects I am using with the footage - Colorista II, Mojo and Magic Bullet Looks. Could the problem be that I have too many effects running?
I can't view my footage in Premiere as my computer can't play it due to the effects I have on it so can't comment on whether the problem is happening in playback and export, or just when i export
I have tried exporting in h.264, mpeg etc. I have also tried exporting through Encoder rather than Premiere, again with no difference and am getting so frustrated.
Im on Premiere Pro cc and Windows 8
Any advice would be much appreciated
Thanks!
Tony

Hi Tony,
Make sure you have installed the most recent version of that plug-in. You might also want to contact Red Giant Support: http://www.redgiant.com/support/
Thanks,
Kevin

Red Giant Magic Bullet Colorista... FREE!

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