Lynda - Up and Running with Magic Bullet Suite

Are you seeing a gap between your video and the quality of professional productions? Magic Bullet Suite is a collection of high-end plugins that help create significantly more professional footage with tools that do everything from removing noise to performing high-end color grading. In this course, Chad Perkins explains what apps are available in the suite and what they do, and introduces the basic features and workflow of each plugin, with emphasis on the best-selling plugin Magic Bullet Looks and the extremely powerful color grading tool Colorista II.

Topics include:

Integrating with After Effects and Premiere Pro

Getting common Hollywood styles with Magic Bullet Looks

Tweaking Looks presets

Creating a Power Mask

Using the Looks toolset

Performing basic color correction

Creating a miniature effect

Performing powerful secondary color correction with Colorista II

Adjusting skin tones with Cosmo

Using Denoiser to salvage (and beautify) noisy footage