Magic Bullet Editors issues!
by Alieninnovation
on
May 20, 2006 at 9:32:15 am
Hi,
I purchased Magic Bullet Editors v2.0 last week, so today I thought to my self I will give it a try.
Beside from the Fact that this Plugin is as slow as if I was on a Pentium 2 with no Real Time FX.
None of the Look Presets from the Look-Suite look nothing like the Magic Bullet Look Guide (http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/lookguide.html).
Ether the Footage is bleached out, Under Saturated or over Saturated.
Re: Magic Bullet Editors issues! by Shane Ross on May 20, 2006 at 3:16:17 pm
Magic Bullet isn't realtime for a majority of the filters. I know they claim realtime, but that must be on a Quad G5 with the best graphics card money can buy. Magic Bullet is notoriously slow. Render times have improved DRASTICALLY with MBE 2...cut in half...but they are still slow.
What machine are you running? What graphics card? These are the key factors for render speed and realtime. Although I have yet to see ANYTHING realtime from MB.
And what are your sequence render settings? YOu might have them set to low quality. Click on the RT button in the upper left corner of the timeline and tell us what is checked.
Re: Magic Bullet Editors issues! by Wayne K. on May 21, 2006 at 10:31:35 am
I've gotten GREAT results with MBE - you have to finess all of the settings in order get the results you're after.
Since you're not using the identical footage they're using in the demo's it's obvious the results will look different.
So, play around with the filter and you'll be amazed at the looks you can create.
Re: Magic Bullet Editors issues! by Anders Haavie on May 21, 2006 at 1:54:21 pm
Thats strange. I use MBE for lots of broadcast work, and it kicks ass. I have a geforce 688 Ultra DLL and everything works beautiful. Its VERY fast with this graphics card. ehh.. so you use the presets right ? Should be pretty close to the examples on the Red Giants web site.
Try to ask your question in the magic bullet forum here no Creative cow.
Re: Magic Bullet Editors issues! by Winston Cely on May 21, 2006 at 6:06:21 pm
Since I've upgraded to 2.0, MBE will crash FCP 5.0x if there's another filter on the same clip. Sometimes, it'll crash it if it's the only filter on the clip. I'm working on a G5 dual2.5 with an x800XT and 4.5 gigs of RAM. And I 2nd what's been said elsewhere that it's very slow. Leave it till the very end of your project and then use em.....
Winston A. Cely
Editor
Envision Response
Seattle, WA
