Grinder 1.5 will burn in timecode and also use EXIF files. This is a tool to convert DSLR footage into good-looking and edit-friendly Apple ProRes HQ, LT or 4:4:4, and PhotoJpeg, too. Luckily for DSLR shooters, Red Giant created Grinder 1.5. But what if I am working on a film or documentary? What if I want the timecode burned in? What about proxies for the Web? Sure I can drag it into my Premiere Pro CS5.5 timeline and edit it right away, and that’s usually fine. I shoot a lot of footage with my Canon 7D. You can however dial things up to create an airbrushed look, too. Unlike real life, with this tool, it is hard to detect if someone has had work done. I had a fitness client over the other day and showed her a close-up clip I had of her, applied Cosmo, did a few tweaks and she was sold. Cosmo greatly reduces the time needed to do skin retouching. I now have no fear of getting old and wrinkled. It uses auto skin detection technologies also found in Mojo and Looks 2. New to Magic Bullet Suite 11 is a nifty app called Cosmo, a cosmetic clean-up tool that will smooth out skin blemishes faster than you can say Proactive. If you ever had a movie that you loved the coloring of, you can use these tools to mimic that look. I use this quite often to tweak my presets. Red Giant also put the easy-to-use Colorista three-way color corrector in the UI.

Looks 2 also has new scopes such as hue/saturation, skin and hue/lightness. Sure you need to know your color schemes, or do you? Looks 2 boasts an intuitive and highly customizable user interface, and it includes 64 new and updated presets designed by the pros. Designed from the ground up by Red Giant and effects stud Stu Maschwitz, this is one hell of a set of tools. It’s a full-blown suite of tools called Magic Bullet Suite 11. The Red Giant folks invited me on a call to discuss the newest version of the flagship app. It made the distributors sit up and take notice: “This looks like film,” they said.įlash forward. When they first introduced Magic Bullet years ago, I used it on my very first indie film. Red Giant has always embraced the little guy, a.k.a., the indie filmmaker. Full 64-bit compatibility makes this suite speedy Cosmo offers realistic-looking clean-up PRODUCT: Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Suite 11

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