New
additions to this edition's Look Suite include Crime Scene
(designed to replicate CSI), Echo Blue (designed
to mimic The Island), King of Pain (designed to
mimic Lord of War), and seven more presets to go
along with the previous 55 presets.
Each
of these presets is able to be placed on your footage
and then tweaked in four different areas: Subject, Lens,
Camera, and Post. The subject is your actual footage and
how bright, saturated, or contrasty it is. The Lens deals
with filters that would usually be applied to the lens
of a camera, like Black and White Tiffen Pro-Mist filters.
Next is the actual camera and it replicates things that
would occur during the actual film recording process,
like the old 3-Strip Process and a film tint. The final
area that can be tweaked is the Post area which that allows
for touch ups on the warmth or coolness of the picture,
post saturation, post brightness, and post contrast. Because
these layers of effects are designed to work in the same
order as they would actually work in the real world with
a real camera setup, you come up with a pretty convincing
replica of reality. It's not perfect, but it ends up looking
pretty good for the most part.
Two
things that are in MBE2 that don't fall under tint
or destruction are Real Time Processing and Compression
Correction. Real Time Processing allows you to use your
better video cards to actually render touched-up footage
at real time speed (with a fast enough video card, that
is). The Compression Correction feature is very useful
for things like blue-screen and other times where you
need to repair edge pixelation that's occurred from compression.
All
in all, Magic Bullet Editors 2 is a pretty deep
set of plug-ins.
