The two most sought after from the suite are the “title track” Magic Bullet component, which takes care of the frame rate conversion and de-interlacing and the Look Suite, which creatively treats the colors and tones of the video to mimic different film stocks, specific feature films or lab processes. The Magic Bullet Suite consists of five plug-ins. A desktop 24p mastering solution seemed like the only way to go, but no such thing existed. In fact, he felt it was crucial to be able to create a high-quality video version of the piece that looked like film. Eventually Stu hoped to transfer the project to film, but he didn’t want this to be the first time he would see his project with the 24 frames per second look he desired. Director Stu Maschwitz was confident the quality of the images he was getting from his slick new Sony DCR-VX1000 (ahhh, the golden years of DV) were superb, but there was no question that the hyper-detailed, “big brother” video look of it had to go. The first Orphanage original production, a short film called The Last Birthday Card, would become the proving ground for a new way of making movies. Developed at The Orphanage, a digital film production and post company in San Francisco, it was designed to allow ultimate creative control over digital projects while maintaining the highest possible quality, with a particular eye toward mimicking the characteristics of motion picture film. Magic Bullet is an all-digital pipeline for finishing digital movies. PRODUCT: Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Suite V.2

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