COLOR CORRECTION MAGIC BULLET LOOKS SOFTWARE

Then, like DD did with Nuke, like Knoll did with what became Photoshop back in the '80s, like I forget the guys name did with Commotion, the original creator partners with or sells a source-code snapshot to an actual software company to bring it to market as a an product and deal with the resulting support and customer fulfillment.īefore that it was a custom set of After Effects techniques (since internally it doesn't do anything you can't do with ganging lots more of AE's filters and operators together and is how it was built) by Stu Maschwitz while he was still working at ILM. There were no options like we enjoy now for color correction and products like AE and Commotion were only just about then expanding beyond limited 8bit support. Their initial startup capital was largely based on keeping their color grading suites busy grading commercials, music videos, short films and features, at a time when I don't believe the original ColorFinesse was available. But it's not that (or doesn't have to be) and didn't start its life like that.īefore it was a product available to the public it was a proprietary set of tools developed for the color grading suites at The Orphanage (RIP). That's mostly how it was packaged up and sold as a tool that users would associate with its name, as an easy, fire-and-forget, 'make it look like a movie' plug-in. Most people don't realize that Magic Bullet can be used, in its simplest form, as a means to apply one of its collection of pre-built looks.

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