Sunday
Nov062011
Magic Bullet Looks in FCP X
Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 11:00AM Red Giant wasted no time in porting Magic Bullet Looks to Final Cut Pro X, but the all-new Final Cut is a young platform and there have been some hurdles. We’re almost there, but we’re working with Apple to resolve a critical bug (theirs, not ours) that’s preventing us from releasing. Aharon Rabinowitz explains:
Apple is taking this issue very seriously, and they’ve been very responsive. We know their team of developers is dedicated to giving you the best possible user experience in FCP, so we expect a resolution soon.
I haven’t fallen in love with FCP X yet, but seeing this preview has me hopeful. The realtime interactions and seamless background rendering are how everything we use should work.
Reader Comments (4)
Hmmm...well I think you releasing cool shit like this will make the platform what it should be. I think it was made for plugins.
Hey its great for you to make money of it even if you didn't end up liking it for your own use!
OooooooOOOh, I hope they fix this soon! We're hurting from not having looks :-)
We have fallen in love with FCP X. I realised it was a winner when my technophobe actor girlfriend went from absolute terror at the site of FCP 6's interface to putting together a very smooth rough cut in FCP X in the space of 48 hours.
I've fallen in love with the metadata on PARTS of clips, the fluidity of the interface, the ease of experimenting and the sheer speed of putting together a rough cut. Right now we are doing basic grades with the colour board, then exporting the whole thing as ProRes and applying the beauty pass and "style" grade in After Effects. Would be awesome to get this plugged into FCP X directly.
Sure, FCP X has a ton of rough edges (my personal worst beef is that you can't selectively cut-and-paste effects: if you paste a colour grade, you obliterate the audio settings for the clip, which is hardly ever correct behaviour). But the quality, speed and fluidity of the workflow means I've not gone back to FCP 6 or PPro CS5 except where I really have to.
Great work Red Giant, I want Looks, Colorista II and Cosmo as soon as the bug fixes allow!
I'm really looking forward to this! I also can't wait for LUT Buddy on FCPX. I've been holding out on buying Pomfort's DSLR Log2Video because LB looks better and is free.