The hallmark of Red Giant’s Magic Bullet software products are that they are designed to enhance or stylize images. As their banner states, they focus on “color correction, finishing and film looks for filmmakers.” You can purchase individual software products or a comprehensive suite of tools. I reviewed Magic Bullet Suite 12 a couple a years ago. A few months ago Red Giant released its Magic Bullet Suite 13 update. As in the past, you can purchase it outright or as an upgrade from a previous version. With each iteration of the suite, Red Giant shuffles the mix of products in the toolkit and this version is no different.

Magic Bullet Suite 13 is comprised of seven plug-in products, which include Looks 4.0, Colorista IV, Denoiser III, Cosmo II, Mojo II, Film, and the newly added Renoiser. The tools are cross-platform compatible (macOS or Windows), but depending on the editing or compositing software you use, not all of these plug-ins work in every possible host. All of the tools will work in Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects, as well as Apple Final Cut Pro ...[continue reading]

RedShark Review: Red Giant releases Magic Bullet Suite 13, a complete grading solution for Adobe products, as well as Final Cut Pro X.

Final Cut Pro X users rejoice: all of Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Suite modules now work as plug-in to your beloved NLE. Version 13 includes new versions of Colorista, Looks, Denoiser, Film, Mojo and Cosmo. Renoiser 1.0 is brand new. Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro users will be happy to know that Looks 4 and Denoiser 3 now enjoy Mercury support, which means they now have real-time playback of the effects in their favourite composition and editing applications. …[continue reading on RedSharkNews.com]

One product package I’ve always been impressed with is Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Suite. It’s a product that is designed to cover all the bases of finishing your product. Whether it’s color correct, color grading or film emulation, Magic Bullet has your productions covered. In this two part review, we’re going to take a look at the newest release, Magic Bullet Suite 13, and we’ll see if number 13 is lucky for Red Giant.

To get us rolling in Part 1, we’re going to talk about the different effects in the suite, and what they do. We’re going to be incorporating some of the new features with each product, so at the end, I’ll summarize what’s new in each package.

Magic Bullet Colorista

Supported Host Applications: After Effects, Premiere, FCP X & Motion (click for specific versions).
Magic Bullet Colorista is the core of the color correction inside of Magic Bullet Suite, and it’s a powerful one, but I’ll be very honest with you. It’s was also one of the more complex effects if you were new to color correction / grading, but Red Giant has done something super smart. They have come up with the “Guided Color Correction” window to help take newcomers through the color correction process. It’s done in seven steps, and covers all the basics, from color space to black and white levels, and to saturation and color balance.

If I had to pick one beef with Colorista, it’s with the new “Open as Panel” command, because it’s lags in its own window (panel), yet is super snappy when it’s in the After Effects interface. You’d think the performance wouldn’t change based on which user interface it’s in. I also found tools like the LUT curve to be very laggy when Colorista was in it’s separate panel, but functioned as per normal, when back in the Effect Controls Window. That was a little disappointing.

New Features

1. GPU: OpenGL/OpenCL
2. Colorista Panel
3. Guided Color Correction
4. LUTs
5. Color Temperature & Tint
6. RGB Point Curves
7. Log Support

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