Magic Bullet Looks 1.1 adds Sony Vegas 8 support

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San Francisco, CA, June 10, 2008 – Red Giant Software, publisher of a line of professional digital video tools, including Knoll Light Factory and Trapcode, today released Magic Bullet Looks 1.1 with new support for Sony Vegas 8. Magic Bullet Looks has become the defacto standard plug-in for helping to set the mood for everything […]

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Compression Artifacts & Pulldown

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This started as a quick post about how to gain finer control over the compression settings in the QuickTime dialog. But before we can get there, we first need to talk talk about how 3:2 pulldown works. (Trust me; it all ties together; it was also a good little mystery.) I recently gave a training […]

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Video for Corporate Marketers

The Mezzanine – Storing Video in your Digital Asset Management System by Al Falaschi When we set up digital asset management systems for our clients, they typically contain a full mix of marketing’s brand assets….images, logos, brochures, audio and video. As corporate marketing departments are adding video production and video services to the mix, the […]

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Make Your Gray Skies Blue in Final Cut Pro

Make Your Gray Skies Blue in Final Cut Pro 8

It’s not unusual for your skies to be washed out. This is often a problem, because video doesn’t offer the same dynamic range as film (the difference between darks and highlights). Fortunately, Final Cut Pro allows you to isolate the color correction, so you can achieve a fix just to the problem area. 1 Apply […]

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