

Hello: Big frustration and new disappointment. But, as soon as I pushed a control to get the effect I wanted, pixels started to dance all over the image: Noise was a serious limitation to color correcting DSLR footage. RGL offered so many options and creative power. Looks plugin is now labeled Magic Bullet Looks as part of the eponym suite. And color correction was the missing part of my workflow. That was my next revelation: Color Correction. I discovered Red Giant Looks (RGL) plugin watching Stu Maschwitz’s video tutorials. My efforts were FAR from ‘Reverie’ cinematic feel! Act 2: Discovering Red Giant Looks

Except one thing was still bugging me: The Look. And with enough time in Premiere I managed to get the edits I wanted.

Sure DSLRs are easy to shoot with, lightweight, perfect for my one-man-team. This short fooled me – and probably the rest of the world – into thinking that achieving his images is easy as buying a new Canon DSLR. It was shot with a ‘consumer’ DSLR camera. It was in 2010, and Vincent Laforet just released Reverie. I started my dive into color correction during the DSLR revolution. Act 1: Discovering DSLRs for Cinematography My road to Neat Video followed the typical 3-Act narrative. If you’ve never used Neat Video then please watch Robbie’s Insight on revisiting Neat Video 4.1, to understand how it works and how it’s different from most other denoise plug-ins. It’s my go-to plugin when I need to denoise footage. Tutorials / Magic Bullet Suite v4 / Using Denoiser III On Challenging Footage (Compared to Neat Video) Seriesĭay 13: 24 Insights in 24 Days 2018 New Year Marathon Exploring Denoiser III (and testing against a popular competitor)īefore we start evaluating Red Giant’s denoiser, I first need to explain why I’ve been committed to Neat Video for years now.
