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MillimeterRed Giant Software Magic Bullet Mojo
Sep 22, 2009 12:00 PM, By Dan Ochiva
Quick color tweaks with Magic Bullet Looks
Compatible with Avid, Apple Motion and Final Cut Pro, and Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. Price: $99
For most mainstream editors, color correction is an art form best left to those who spend their careers finessing color on a scene-by-scene basis.
But the reality is more and more producers expect editors to turn in work that doesn't need further attention in pricey color correction suites. That's why products such as Red Giant Software's Magic Bullet Looks—which offers tweakable, prebaked color Looks—became a hit. With its 100-plus Look presets, users can turn out multiple versions of edits to find a style to match the project.
But even the Magic Bullet Suite can be a bit much to delve into when pressed by deadlines, as flipping through that many choices can cause brain lock for a weary editor. That's part of the rationale behind the new Magic Bullet Mojo. It's a simpler, trimmed-down version of the suite. Need to warm the color temperature of your actor's skin while making shadows and backgrounds cooler? Simple. A single slider adjusts both elements in unison.
You can make more detailed adjustments through the Shadow Tint control, or fool with Bleach, which affects saturation. Skin tone is what most viewers notice immediately, so the software offers three controls for flexibility: Color changes skin tones, Squeeze compresses the skin tone range, and Solo desaturates everything in a scene except for skin.
It's pretty cheap too, which makes a reasonable excuse for an impulse buy.
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