Magic Bullet and Colorista trouble in CS4
by Mike Schmitt
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Sep 22, 2009 at 4:52:07 am
Hi there.
Just upgraded to CS4 Production Premium and ever since, Colorista and Magic bullet are acting strange in After Effects. As if the image has rolled down 30% of the screen. I've tried reinstalling and reactivating. downloading all the newest versions.
By the way, I still have CS3 on the computer and Magic Bullet has failed in that program too.
I'm hoping this is an obvious and common problem that has an easy fix.
thanks!
Here's a link to a screen shot. Not sure if I've done it right!!!
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Re: Magic Bullet and Colorista trouble in CS4 by Richard Van Slyke on Oct 3, 2009 at 3:15:19 am
What OS are you on?
I'm checking this forum because I have in mind to buy Colorista. I'm using CS4 with Vista 64-bits.
I think I'll wait until I know more about what kinds of problems I might run into.
Re: Magic Bullet and Colorista trouble in CS4 by Mike Schmitt on Oct 3, 2009 at 4:26:57 am
Colorista is excellent. I'm using a Mac OS 10.5 on my tower and Snow Leopard on my macbook pro.
Only been a Mac guy for a year or so and I don't remember ever using it in Premiere when I was a PC guy. I do all my color correcting in After Effects.
On this project, though, I cut it in Final Cut, then used Automatic Duck to bring it into After Effects to color correct and make every shot look good.
Then every day my client wanted a teeny little change that I couldn't do in After Effects and I had to make the change in Final cut, import it again into after Effects and REDO ALL of the color correction and stuff.
Finally I realized I could import the AE project into Premiere (CS4) and tweak it there, then go back to AE to quickly render it.
Colorista caused problems because I used it in every shot, almost. Once I disabled it, I could bring the project into Premiere and do my tweaks, bring it back into AE and reenable the effect.
