One of the headline features in Looks 4 is its GPU acceleration. Is Magic Bullet Looks 4 now fast enough for client-attended sessions? This made working in Looks difficult since I could never be sure of my final result until I applied the Look and exited out of the plug-in. As a colorist, I often throw my computer displays out of whack, so there’s never a question of which display is the proper reference.
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Until recently, Magic Bullet Looks couldn’t output to an external, color-managed display.Then I’d recreate it by hand, in DaVinci Resolve (or Apple Color, many moons ago) to maximize my playback and render times. Typically – I’d use Looks to create the look. And I can never judge the final quality of a look without seeing it playback at near real-time. Anywhere from 5 – 12 frames per second was the most I could ever get with that plug-in applied. Magic Bullet Looks always required rendering since its real-time playback was non-existent.But… I never use Magic Bullet Looks on client-attended color sessions I make no secret that I’m a huge fan of Magic Bullet Looks. In a previous Insight, I looked at Magic Bullet Looks 3 (and in the context of my FCP X Desert Island Challenge I’ve looked at other plugins in the Magic Bullet Suite).
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Since those early successful days, Red Giant Software moved Magic Bullet from beyond the ‘film look’ plugin and developed an entire suite of plug-ins for all the major non-linear editing platforms. Magic Bullet has a long and storied history dating back to the early transition to Digital Video cameras in the early 2000’s. Revisiting the latest version of Magic Bullet Suite
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