Silver Bullet for Grading

Posted by Matt Hopper, 9 March 2010 20:03

I've just started working on the edit for my next film on Nathan Jurevicius of Scarygirl fame. Normally I don't start looking at grading any of the footage until we've locked off the pictures, but I couldn't help having a play with Magic Bullets Looks which is a new program to the studio. Normally we do all our video grading in After Fx and more recently in Final Cut Pro's Color, but Looks is just such a intuitive and quick alternative, which is perfect for a working studio with a lot of video projects coming through the door. I might have been a little heavy-handed with the grade below, but I think you can get the idea of exactly how fun and quick the Magic Bullet program is to use!

Screenshot from my interview with Nathan graded with Magic Bullet Looks.

Screenshot from my interview with Nathan ungraded raw footage.