

But Color is a separate program, meaning that you have to send your edited sequence to Color and render files back into your FCP timeline when you're done, also known as a 'round trip'. To get an idea of exactly where Colorista 2 fits in the market, and what it's up against, let's briefly examine the competition.įor Final Cut Pro users, Apple Colour is included and can handle the bulk of grading duties. Magic Bullet Colorista 2, available from Red Giant Software, is a colour correction plug‑in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, 4 and 5 Adobe After Effects CS3,4 and 5 and Apple Final Cut Pro. And now, with Looks rebuilt, you can expect to see big things in the future.With so many different bundled and third‑party colour correction plug‑ins available, do Colorista 2's new features offer anything special?


“We’ve wanted to do much more with Magic Bullet Looks. “These updates are just the very beginning,” said Sparks. Better Custom Looks Management: making it easier to share your Looks with other editors.S-Curve Tool: makes it easy to add contrast without losing detail.Strength Slider: Control the overall strength of your entire Look with an easy-to-use, key-framable slider.Improved Looks Previewing: allowing a user to hover over Looks to preview to see the results.Speed increases of up to 95% on Windows and more than 25% on Mac.The free update includes the following enhancements: In the meantime, you don’t have to wait to get new features out of Magic Bullet Looks. Magic Bullet Looks has been rebuilt on the same flexible, GPU-enhanced technology, and it opens the door for us to do a lot more with Looks and other existing products in the future.“ “That technology allows us to quickly create new effects and update existing ones quickly. “A few weeks ago, we announced an entirely new development platform and effects library called Universe,” said Red Giant Co-founder Andrew Little. Rather than continue building Looks on old code, the developers chose to spend the last year rebuilding it, entirely from scratch - preserving the hugely popular Magic Bullet Looks experience, while giving it new life and a bright future.
