Click-thru Tutorial: Magic Bullet Looks

I watched Steve demo at NAB. MB has really come along - a beautiful tool!

Posted by Jerry Waters on Saturday, June 23, 2007 @ 10:53 PM

I'm wondering if the spot fx coordinates are keyframable so they can accept tracking data, or is it that once you place the spot exposure that's where it lives for the whole shot.

Posted by James Wilson on Monday, June 25, 2007 @ 08:02 PM

I wonder the same thing. If they can't be keyframed (or ideally, motion tracked) then they'd be of very limited use to me, since there seems to be no way to use AE's own tools to control them.

Posted by Doug Spice on Friday, June 29, 2007 @ 03:05 PM

i love the thinking behind this, with the camera analogy
makes a lot of sense.

some questions:

1. also, both examples of the spot fx were circles.
any way to turn them into elipses?
more complex shapes?

2. can the colour wheels be enlarged?

3. any scopes other than histogram?

Posted by Nick Meyers on Sunday, July 15, 2007 @ 08:52 PM

To answer a couple of the questions:

Yes you can keyframe the looks on different frames just by keyframing the Edit control in After Effects. Other hosts will not likely support this kind of keyframing.

We decided to stick to basic shapes for this release but more extensive shapes are on the list for the future.

The color wheels are fixed in size but we have paid close attention to the sensitivity so that you can easily dial in color even on the small wheel.

There are only RGB parade and slice graphs in this release.

Posted by Sean Safreed on Thursday, July 19, 2007 @ 12:35 PM

i love the thinking behind this, with the camera analogy
makes a lot of sense

Posted by jaggu on Thursday, August 2, 2007 @ 06:51 AM

but as of right now the newest magic bullet doesn't even work with intel macs correct?

Posted by david on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 @ 06:18 PM

is mb looks part of magic bullet suite?

Posted by rob on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 @ 06:48 PM

ok...so the next tutorial should be on how to motion track [\keyframe] the Magic Bullet Effect we just made..

write that down please... :]

Posted by elad on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 @ 07:20 AM

Yes, the next Looks tutorial should be motion tracking using keyframes in AE!! Would love to see it, so many people would benefit from seeing one.

Posted by jago on Monday, December 17, 2007 @ 01:23 PM

Looks impressive but will the spot effect be keyframable with Avid FX or just AE in the future?

Posted by Chris on Friday, February 29, 2008 @ 05:50 AM

wow its great way to think about color correction way :) i need to ask about how to get a free demo of look 3 ?

Posted by arouri on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 @ 02:41 AM

I tried to keyframe the Spot exposure, it does not do it in after effect the only thing you can key frame is Mask. Help pls

Posted by walid on Monday, April 7, 2008 @ 08:02 AM

Hello,
I just started playing with this tool and I am having a problem after I create my look. So say I have created a look and I am ready to send the look to the host application: in my case FCP. When click the "OK" button my look is blown out in FCP??? Any solution? Also, I am renaming my Look in the untitled field and a pop up that says "Sorry, an error occurred while attempting to save the file" Mabey this has something to do with it? Any help would be much appreciated.

Posted by Patrick on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 @ 02:54 PM