User manual RED GIANT MAGIC BULLET LOOKS SE

MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Getting Started Online Help Installation Support What is Magic Bullet Looks SE? Copyright Red Giant Software License Features of Looks SE System and GPU Requirements Preparing for Looks SE Presets Looks Library (90 Presets) LooksBuilder SE Interface LooksBuilder SE Overview What is a Look? Info Bar and Help Preview Area Looks Drawer and Presets Tools and Controls Tools Chain Hands-On Mode Application Reference Studio Plug-in Reference Welcome to Magic Bullet Looks Studio Edition v1.0 help! The help is organized by subject in the navigation bar on the left. Click on a subject and the corresponding instructions will open in this frame. Below are pages that you should review to get started with the Studio Edition of Magic Bullet Looks. Features in Looks SE Graphics Card Requirements Apply Looks SE in Pinnacle Studio Pinnacle Studio 12 1 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 A new approach to Looks Magic Bullet Looks SE is an all-new package for applying and editing the look of your video or film footage. It consists of two parts: the Looks SE plugin for Studio, and the new LooksBuilder SE standalone application for applying and customizing Look presets. It goes beyond traditional color correction tools to incorporate a wide variety of image enhancement tools that, when used in combination, can create a wide variety of outstanding color changes to give video a more "filmic" look; make a dim, blue shot appear as if it was shot at sundown; or emulate edge focus or shutter streaking effects not possible in any other package. Application Support Magic Bullet Looks SE has been created to run as a plug-in for Pinnacle Studio 12 and is included as part of Pinnacle Studio Ultimate. It will appear in the Video Effects tools panel. Pinnacle Studio 12 2 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 LooksBuilder SE- A Revolutionary Interface The LooksBuilder SE user interface allows you to apply and customize Looks. It features most of the power of the full-blown Magic Bullet Looks tool that is used by broadcast and film professionals. See the full description of the LooksBuilder SE interface here. A Multitude of Presets Looks SE features 90 editable preset Looks that you can use on your projects. These presets have been divided into individual categories to make searching and browsing easier. Individual categories include: Basic, Black and White Tints, Diffusion, Horror, Music Videos, Popular Film, Popular TV, Special Effects, Stock Emulation, and Tints/Grads. To preview the different Looks, go to the Presets Gallery. Look Theater A unique preview mode is built right into the top navigation bar of LooksBuilder SE. Simply click the preview button to begin an interactive slide show that shows the looks as applied to a frame from your project or any JPEG file. The slide show applies each presets from the Look Library for a few seconds at a time, or can be paused and moved forward manually. Pinnacle Studio 12 3 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 System Requirements Magic Bullet Looks SE requires specific graphics card capabilities to run. Without the correct card, the software will not install or run, and the installer will warn you if you don't have the necessary graphics card installed in your system. Magic Bullet Looks SE uses an advanced render engine that depends on the same kind of graphics processing used in the latest video games like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty or the games that run on the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 systems. The Looks engine can render color effects, diffusion and other tools faster on an advanced graphics processor than on today's fastest CPUs from Intel or AMD. Magic Bullet Looks SE supports a wide range of cards from both ATI or NVIDIA. For ATI cards, we require a 9600 XT or greater, or an X series card starting with the X700 series. Cards with greater model numbers and at least 128 MB of RAM can generally run the Looks engine. For NVIDIA cards, we support the 6600 model and higher or QuadroFX 1300 and up. Cards with higher model numbers and a minimum of 128 MB of RAM can run Looks SE. For users working with HD images, we require that the video card have at least 256 MB of RAM. In all cases, we suggest using the latest video drivers for your graphics card. The Looks system does NOT support Intel GMA processors. These graphics processors are integrated into the system motherboard of many low-cost systems and are used frequently in laptop computers. The Intel GMA processors are capable of 2D graphics but they do NOT have the advanced graphics processing capabilities required to drive the Looks engine. If you have one of these processors, you will likely be prompted during installation that the graphics processor is unsupported. NOTE: Since all media is processed with high dynamic range quality like a raw digital photo, you will absolutely need a 256 MB graphics card or larger for HD projects. We do NOT recommend using a card with only 64 MB of RAM. For newer cards from ATI and NVIDIA, we recommend a minimum of 256 MB of RAM. Rendering In most cases, the Looks SE plug-in requires rendering to generate final color-corrected output. The Studio host application will either render the content in the background as you work or it will generate the final result during the Make Movie process. NOTE: The maximum render size in Looks is 8192 x 8192 pixels, but is dependent on the video card in the system. Most cards will support 2K media (2048 x 1536) rendering but only the NVIDIA 8800 series cards or Quadro 4600/5600 support 8K output at time of this writing. Performance Expectations Since the processing requirements vary wildly by the number of tools in a look, it is difficult to give exact output or render speed expectations on every system with every look. On the highest-end systems such as a PC system with an Nvidia 8800 GT graphic card, you can expect relatively speedy rendering. On a Dell 8600 with 8800 GT card, we tested some of the looks for render speed on an HD clip. This is a higher data rate than DV, but lower than full 1080p HD media. The following table shows the render speed of various Look presets. The render speed is noted for the output time relative to the length of the media. For example, a look that is Pinnacle Studio 12 4 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 2.4x real time means that 1 minute of media will take approximately 2 minutes and 25 seconds to render. Look Neo, Epic Subtle Film Basic Dream Look Complexity Extremely Simple Simple Moderate Complex Render Speed 1.1x project time 1.5x project time 2.4x project time 3x project time Pinnacle Studio 12 5 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Installation Magic Bullet Looks SE comes packaged as a complete software installer. You must have installed your copy of Pinnacle Studio Ultimate before installing Magic Bullet Looks SE. The installer will automatically place the required components on your hard drive and guide you through the process of installing the plug-in. Installer Step-by-Step The Windows installer is labeled Magic_Bullet_Looks_SE_Install.exe. To begin, simply double-click the installation icon. You will be greeted with the Red Giant Software splash screen. Click next to bring up the product splash screen. Pinnacle Studio 12 6 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Click Next to move to the graphics card recommendation screen. Click Next to open to the installer instruction screen. Pinnacle Studio 12 7 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 The final screen is the path options screen where you choose an installation location. If you install Studio on your default drive, you can simply click Next to complete the installation. Pinnacle Studio 12 8 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Looks SE Plug-in: Getting Started To access the LooksBuilder SE application where you choose, edit and apply looks, you must first apply the Looks SE plug-in from the Video Toolbox. First select a clip, then click the Video Toolbox button in the upper left corner of the Timeline/Storyboard window. If you need more general information about Video Effects, see "Using Video Effects" in the Studio Plus manual. The Video Toolbox button Once you have the Video Toolbox panel open, click the Video Effects tool to reveal the video effects options. Then click the Add New Effect button to add a video effect to your clip. The Looks effect is the only effect available from the Magic Bullet category The Looks SE plug-in user interface consists of a single button: The Edit Looks button in the Looks panel. Clicking the Edit button brings up the LooksBuilder SE interface. The help button (the question mark), will open the HTML-based help. The Looks panel in Studio Pinnacle Studio 12 9 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Stacking effects It is possible to use Looks SE in combination with other color correction effects in Studio (such as Color Correction or White Balance effects) in the Standard RTFX category. We recommend that you apply these effects before applying the Looks SE plug-in. In the Video Effects panel, the effects are rendered from top to bottom. Apply any color correction effects to your footage first, then apply Looks SE. You can rearrange the order of the effects by selecting the look and clicking the up or down arrows to the right of the effect list. The White Balance effect applied before Looks SE in the Video Effect toolbox Pinnacle Studio 12 10 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Preparing for Looks SE There is a wealth of information--and just as much misinformation--on the web and in print about how to shoot DV/HDV for the best results. Here, straight from Stu Maschwitz's accumulated knowledge, is the short version of how you can shoot the best footage in preparation for Looks SE. If you want even more information on shooting and color processing, check out Stu Maschwitz's DV Rebel's Guide book from Peachpit Press. Turn Down the Sharpening If your camera has the option, reduce the internal sharpening control to almost none. The harsh, over-sharpened edges that appear on high-contrast images are a signature giveaway of video. It's worth experimenting with your camera's settings to find the best sharpening amount, but it will almost certainly be less than the default setting. You can always make the video look crisper later on, but you cannot take the sharpening artifacts out once captured to tape, DVD, HDV or whatever your medium. Shoot in 16:9 Mode Especially if you plan on going out to film, but also if a nice, letterboxed video output is your desire. Electronic "16:9 mode" is not as good as shooting with a native 16:9 chip, but it's better than not shooting with it. Be careful though: if a full-frame version of your project is ever needed, it could be a lot of extra work to create it. 16:9 mode is for projects which are primarily intended for widescreen presentation. Don't Overexpose DV and HDV do not react well to blown-out areas of the frame. If a hot or overexposed look is your desire, it's far better to shoot at a normal exposure and use Magic Bullet Looks SE to burn it out later. Many cameras have an option to display a zebra pattern in the viewfinder over areas that are blown out to 100% white. This is a very helpful option when shooting for Looks SE. An ND Grad filter can help keep sunny skies from blowing out, and putting one on the camera will even do a better job than Looks SE's built-in Grad and Exposure tools! Don't Underexpose DV doesn't react well to dark areas either! Brightening up a dark DV shot will bring out all the compression and noise that you never knew was there. Shoot it Plain As an owner of Magic Bullet Looks SE, you have the most powerful image adjustment tools in the world at your fingertips. Shoot your footage as "normal" looking as possible, and wait until you get it into a Magic Bullet project to create those crazy looks you have in mind. This gives you the power and control to change your mind about how you want it to look. This means avoiding color filters or diffusion filters on the camera (with the exception of the ND Grad mentioned above), and setting the white balance to the correct camera preset for the type of light you're using. Shoot it Consistent The best favor you can do for yourself is to ensure that shots in the same sequence look similar to one another. Watch not only the lighting on your foreground subject, but that of your backgrounds as well. Use presets for white balance, so that even if your battery goes dead and you lose your camera settings, you can still return to the same color balance you were using before. Use a color monitor on the set to compare playback of your last setup to the feed from the current one. Try to keep all of your similar skin tones in the same exposure range from one shot to the next--some cameras have zebra patterns in their viewfinders that help you do this. Finally, create a pre-flight checklist for your camera that combines these guidelines with your own experiences, and run through it before beginning every new shot. Pinnacle Studio 12 11 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 As with any advice, please take the above into consideration and make your own decisions. These guidelines have worked well for Stu while working at his post-production company, The Orphanage, but there could be any number of reasons that you may need to do something different. Magic Bullet Looks SE should be flexible enough to handle whatever you throw at it, but if you follow the above guidelines, you are on the road to superior results. Pinnacle Studio 12 12 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 PRESETS ­ Looks Library (90 Presets) Basic Popular Film Black & White Tints Popular TV Diffusion Special Effects Horror Stock Emulation Music Videos Tints and Grads Basic Clean Start Basic Black & White Basic Black Diffusion Basic Cool Max Basic Cool Basic Grunge Basic Warm Max Pinnacle Studio 12 Basic Warm 13 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Basic White Diffusion Black& White Tints Basic Clean Start Blue Chrome Gold Process Platinum Process Sepia Big Grain Sepia Contrasty Pinnacle Studio 12 14 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Diffusion Clean Start Black Diffusion 3.5 Edge Noise Soften SultryTron SuperBloom Telecine Net Warm Unbloom Pinnacle Studio 12 15 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Horror Clean Start Color of Hell Deep Copper Green Vision Hot Maddy Pinnacle Studio 12 16 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Music Videos Clean Start Aged Berlin Big Country Coolish Alternate Coolish Crush Blue Edge Dream Look Alternate Pinnacle Studio 12 17 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Dream Look Sharp Dream Look Green Pearl Infusion Subtle Infusion Night Time Punchy Sharp Pinnacle Studio 12 18 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Warm Bird Pinnacle Studio 12 19 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Popular Films Clean Start Bistro Alternate Bistrocity Blockbuster Bronze Aggressive Bronze Buffalo Curahee Pinnacle Studio 12 20 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Echo Blue Epic Mexicali Miami Neo Ultimatum Warm and Fuzzy Pinnacle Studio 12 21 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Popular TV Clean Start Crime Scene Alternate Crime Scene Glamour Gold Hot and Cold Jealous Indigo New Noir Purple Shadow Push Pinnacle Studio 12 22 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Special Effects Clean Start Benumbed Days of Night Multi Grad Cool Pink Spot Star Filter Tight Pinnacle Studio 12 23 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Swing Tilt Film Warm Spot Focus Pinnacle Studio 12 24 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Stock Emulation Clean Start AG Film Stock Bleach Bypass Light Bleach Bypass BW Film Stock Grainy Color Reversal Old Style Color Reversal Max Contrast Pinnacle Studio 12 25 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Mishandled Negative No 85 Subtle Film Soft Subtle Film Two Strip Cool Stock Warm Stock 01 Pinnacle Studio 12 26 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Tints & Grade Clean Start Brilliant Orange Crush Grad Deep Blue Grad Sky Pinnacle Studio 12 27 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 LooksBuilder SE Interface Magic Bullet LooksBuilder SE is a standalone application that lets you edit looks and apply them to your footage. The LooksBuilder user interface appears with the current frame from your timeline ready to apply and edit a look. The OK and Cancel buttons in the lower right corner are used to apply the Look (OK) or simply return to Pinnacle Studio without updating the Look (Cancel). The following figures show the interface as it appears with no Look applied and minimal controls. The interface appears empty and no Look is applied by default. The left side of the screen is used to open the Looks QuickDrawer that lets you apply Look presets. Look presets are made of a combination of tools. These tools manipulate the color, softness, saturation, focus and more on your video. Once a Look preset is clicked, it loads the approriate tools into the Tool Chain. The Tool Chain is where the action is and where you can edit your looks. Pinnacle Studio 12 28 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 The figure above shows the interface with a look loaded and the Looks QuickDrawers superimposed to show you a set of available preset options. Below is a table that describes each part of the interface. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Look Theater controls for browsing looks interactively. The Looks Quickdrawer shows all the presets. Open by mousing to the left side of the screen. The interactive help changes as you place your mouse on the LooksBuilder SE controls. Saving custom looks is easy, just click the label, change the name and press Enter. The Tool Chain shows individual tools, click one to bring up its controls. Remove a tool by drag and dropping it on the trash. Click OK to return to Studio. Each Tool has controls. Here the Curves tool is showing the custom curve controls. You can turn on and off interactive help by clicking the switch in the info bar. Pinnacle Studio 12 29 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 LooksBuilder SE: What is a Look? LooksBuilder SE lets you apply a number of different tools to alter the way an image appears, allowing you to make it seem warm and fuzzy to emphasize a scene that is happy; or cold and dark to make a scene feel distant or lonely. The Tools are added to the chain when a Look preset is applied. Each icon's appearance shows the effect that it has on the image. Reading the tool states lets you understand how a Look is built from the individual tools. The following image shows the Coolish alternate Look preset applied in the Tool Chain. NOTE: You will never see the Tool Chain in this state. This is a composite to show all the tools active but unselected. This is just an illustration. The look in this case uses eight different tools, including Contrast, Saturation, Fill Light, Diffusion, Curves and Auto Shoulder. These are applied in a specific order to create the look (with the Contrast tool on the left being the first tool, and the Auto Shoulder tool on the right being the last tool) to affect the image. The sections below give a tool-by-tool breakdown of a typical look to help you better understand how to read a look so you can alter it to best suit your footage. If you want more information on the specific controls in the Tool Chain, see the Tool Chain section. Subject Tools The Subject tools are meant to alter the media before processing. In the case of Coolish Alternate, three tools are used prior to coloring and diffusing the image: Contrast, Saturation and Fill Light. Contrast in this case is set to ­.25 or 25% negative contrast. Rather than enhancing the separation between dark and lights, this tool brings them closer together. Why? To allow for more radical changes later. When an image already has a lot of contrast, tools later in the chain can cause the darks to be crushed or lose detail. By applying this negative contrast up front, this look avoids this problem. Note how the Contrast icon looks very gray with no pure white or black colors, which is exactly how the image will change. The Saturation tool is used here to remove a little bit of saturation from the image. This allows for broader color changes in curves and removes a bit of the common Pinnacle Studio 12 30 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 oversaturation of colors in DV or HDV media shot on consumer or prosumer devices. Fill Light in this instance is used to lighten the shadows by more than half. This protects against the big contrast change in Curves. This is also used to color the shadows a deep blue. Often directors or directors of photography will try to push the shadows to blue make the scene appear cold without touching the flesh tones in the image. Fill Light in this instance is a great way to achieve this effect. The Fill Light icon has turned the silhouette more blue to show the effect. Matte Tools The only Matte tool in this case is Diffusion. The Diffusion tool in this case is set to a size of 1% and a grade of 2. These values make for a softening in the highlights without changing the brightness in the image. This setting tends to hide noise and soften the highlights in image, which can make actors and actresses look smoother. This setting isn't strong enough to lose significant detail, so again this is a great look for media shot on DV/HDV cameras. Notice also how the icon is actually fairly sharp, indicating that this specific setting doesn't cause a lot of bloom or glow in the image. Camera Tools The camera tool in this instance is just the Curves tool. The Curves settings in this case are set to generate strong contrast, with the shadows set to map to a low value, and the highlights to roll off at the top with greater brightness. Also, the green line indicates that the green shadow and midtone values are mapped higher than normal. This counteracts the blue push in the shadows so that flesh tones don't appear too blue and unnatural. Post Tools The Post tools in this case are Contrast, Saturation and Auto Shoulder. Pinnacle Studio 12 31 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Contrast is set here to add a bit of contrast in the highlights with a value of +.23 or 23% more contrast and a Pivot value of .91. These combine to cause the contrast to stretch the midtones and highlight values. Saturation is set to 93%. This value creates a little less saturation in the scene. Also, exposure compensation is used in this tool to bring the overall range back to close to the original. Auto Shoulder is set here to catch any overbrights and push them back into the 0-1.0 range, in case this look is applied to an image that is very bright to begin with. Auto Shoulder is a great way to make sure that when you output a Look in your editor, you don't have any out-of-range values that would cause bleed on screen when you create a master tape. Pinnacle Studio 12 32 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 LooksBuilder SE: Info Bar and Help The Information Bar provides controls and readouts for the Look Theater view controls, Preview zoom, RGB readout and the Graphs and Help switches. Look Theater The Looks Theater allows you to preview different Looks on your own image, like a slide show. You can choose to view all Looks in the library or individual sub-categories. Press the space bar key to pause and resume the slide show. Use the left and right arrow keys to move forward and back through the Looks manually. Hit Enter to apply the current look. Timing controls can be changed by altering the Looks Theater values in Preferences. Look Theater Category: Click to toggle between All Looks, Basic, Black and White Tints, Diffusion, Horror, Music Videos, Popular Film, Popular TV, Special Effects, Stock Emulation, Tints/Grads, Custom Looks, and any other categories in the Looks library. Look Theater View: Click to view each available Look for a few seconds at a time as a slide show. You can control the view and transition time for the theater presentation by selecting the Preferences menu item. Clicking View while previewing stops the slide show and no Look is applied. Zoom Zoom: Scrub the percentage value to zoom the image or click on the number to enter a specific value. You can also zoom in 10% increments with the , (comma) and . (period) keys, or use the scroll wheel on your mouse. Double-click the word "Zoom" to snap the image to full screen. RGB numeric readout Red: Displays the amount of red color information at the cursor's current location in floating point units from 0.000 to 100.000. Anything over 1.000 is an overbright value Pinnacle Studio 12 33 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 and will be clamped on output. Green: Displays the amount of green color information at the cursor's current location in floating point units from 0.000 to 100.000. Anything over 1.000 is an overbright value and will be clamped on output. Blue: Displays the amount of blue color information at the cursor's current location in floating point units from 0.000 to 100.000. Anything over 1.000 is an overbright value and will be clamped on output. Help button Help: Click on the "On" or `Off" box to toggle the Help display on or off. When On, mouse over a tool or onscreen element to view help information in a window in the screen's lower left corner. Pinnacle Studio 12 34 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 LooksBuilder SE Preview The preview area shows the current imported image, either from the host application or a still image loaded from the File > Open Image File... menu command. Scrolling down using a mouse with a scroll wheel zooms out (, key). Scrolling up zooms in (. key). The preview area only shows a single frame and includes no time navigation controls. The Preview area can change based on the Look that is loaded in the Tool Chain or show overlays for some tools. Overlays in Preview A number of tools have onscreen controls that appear in the Preview area to allow you to alter the tool controls visually. Some controls have spot controls for isolating the area of operation or the region that they can effect using three concentric circles. These tools include Vignette, Edge Focus, Spot Focus and others. Below is a shot of the Vignette tool. The center area shows the center point. The dotted line defines the fall-off area and the outer circle defines the radius. Pinnacle Studio 12 35 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Mousing over the outer circle will change the hand to a cross-hair to designate that the tool control has the focus and can be changed by clicking and dragging the circle in or out. Finally, the overlay will fade out after approximately four seconds. The fade-out is only to Pinnacle Studio 12 36 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 temporarily hide the cursor if you move your mouse outside the window. This lets you evaluate the look without the distraction of the yellow lines. Pinnacle Studio 12 37 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 LooksBuilder SE: Looks QuickDrawer You can mouse over the vertical Looks hot area to bring the Looks QuickDrawer into view. This panel lets you choose a preset from any of 10 or more categories. When you click on a preset in the QuickDrawer, it automatically replaces the current tools in the Tool Chain. This allows you to quickly evaluate the Look. As soon as your mouse leaves the QuickDrawer panel, the panel will close and you can edit the look or apply it to your footage by clicking OK (if launched from a host application). If you want to see a preview of each look with a description, check out the Library gallery. Two views The Sample View shows the available Looks applied to a sample image with a label under each for the name. The Sample image is either the current image in LooksBuilder SE. Click on a Look to apply it to your image. Pinnacle Studio 12 38 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 The Chain View displays each available Look as a chain of its individual components. Clicking on a Look applies it to your image just as in sample view. Pinnacle Studio 12 39 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Pinnacle Studio 12 40 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Tools and Controls Subject 3 Way Color Corrector Chromatic Aberration Color Contrast Contrast Crush Curves Exposure Grad Exposure Fill Light Lift-Gamma-Gain Offset-Gamma-Gain Range Saturation Saturation Spot Exposure Spot Fill Warm/Cool Matte Color Filter Diffusion Exposure Grad Exposure Gradient Lightflex Sky Filter Spot Exposure Star Filter Warm/Cool Lens Anamorphic Flare Chromatic Aberration Deflare Edge Softness Exposure Grad Exposure Spot Exposure Swing-Tilt Vignette Camera 2-Strip Process 3-Strip Process Black & White Color Contrast Color Reversal Contrast Crush Curves Exposure Film Grain Grad Exposure Neg Bleach Bypass Range Saturation Saturation Shoulder Shutter Streak Spot Exposure Warm/Cool Post 3 Way Color Corrector Auto Shoulder Color Contrast Contrast Crush Curves Exposure Film Grain Grad Exposure Lift-Gamma-Gain Offset-Gamma-Gain Print Bleach Bypass Range Saturation Saturation Spot Exposure Telecine Net Warm/Cool Three Way Color Corrector (appears in Subject, Post) The 3-Way Color Corrector tool provides shadow, midtone, and highlight color correction with control over tone ranges using masks for highlight shadow and midtone regions. It also includes color offset and exposure controls. This tool has an advantage over LiftGamma-Gain, in that it can define the value ranges of its three basic controls. With HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imagery), behavior of overbright pixels is also more predictable with 3-Way Color Corrector. Threshold Controls: Determines the range affected by each respective Color control. Shadows are all values between 0.0 and Shadow. Midtones are the "hump" of values between 0.0 and 1.0, centered on Midtone. Highlights are all values higher than Highlight. Strength: specifies the extent to which the effect is applied. Shadow, Midtone, Highlight Color: the target color to which each respective image range is tinted. Pinnacle Studio 12 41 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Pinnacle Studio 12 42 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Chromatic Aberration (appears in Subject, Lens) The Chromatic Aberration tool emulates the look of misprinted film or poor quality lenses by shifting the red, green and blue channels. This tool can also be used to correct for minor chromatic aberration problems in the original image. Red/Cyan, Green/Magenta, Blue/Yellow: scales each primary color and its opposite from the center. For example, the Red/Cyan control scales cyan to the right and red to the left around edges with positive values and the opposite with negative values in the same control. Pinnacle Studio 12 43 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Color Contrast (appears in Subject, Camera, or Post) The Color Contrast tool deepens the contrast of an image while simultaneously adding an overall tint or color cast to the image. Works just like the Contrast tool, but allows separate control of the R, G and B channels, allowing you to tint highlights toward one hue and shadows toward the opposite. Pivot: The midtone (inflection) point of the contrast curve, for all three channels on a 01.0 scale. Exposure Compensation: corrects for any resulting changes in overall exposure. Contrast: Depending on the Pivot setting, highlights or shadows take on this hue and its opposite, respectively. Pinnacle Studio 12 44 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Contrast (appears in Subject, Camera, or Post) The Contrast tool offers a simple film response or S-curve contrast adjustment with control over the midtone (inflection) point for the contrast curve. Contrast: the amount of contrast Pivot: The midtone (inflection) point of the contrast curve, for all three channels on a 01.0 scale. Exposure Compensation: corrects for any resulting changes in overall exposure. Pinnacle Studio 12 45 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Crush (appears in Subject, Camera, or Post) Crush (Subject, Camera, or Post tool): Crush deepens the shadows in the image, adding controls for tint of the shadow area. Gamma: the assumed gamma of the input media Exposure Compensation: corrects for any resulting changes in overall exposure. Color: the tint color, weighted toward the shadows. Pinnacle Studio 12 46 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Curves (appears in Subject, Camera, or Post) The Curves tool provides a master curve, plus red, green, and blue curve controls with fixed-control-point editing for adjusting shadow, midtone and highlight areas with a single, easy-to-use control. Contrast: adds to the "S" shape of the overall curve Shadows: weighted to the lower half of the curve Midtones: weighted to the midpoint of the curve Highlights: weighted to the upper half of the curve RGB, Red, Green, Blue: allows adjustment on individual color channels Gamma Space: the assumed gamma of the input media Pinnacle Studio 12 47 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Exposure (appears in Subject, Matte, Lens, Camera, or Post) The Exposure tool modifies the amount of light passed to the next Tool. The light value is calibrated in stops like a camera exposure control and can be adjusted by up to plus or minus 16 stops. The gamma in the Advanced I/O Input tab influences how the stops are measured. Stops: with a 1.0 gamma, each positive stop doubles the amount of light, each negative stop halves it. Pinnacle Studio 12 48 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Grad Exposure (appears in Subject, Matte, Lens, Camera, or Post) The Grad Exposure tool applies exposure adjustment in a soft rectangular area with rotation and falloff controls. The gamma setting in the Advanced I/O Input tab influences how the stops are measured. Stops: with a 1.0 gamma, each positive stop doubles the amount of light, each negative stop halves it. X1, Y1, X2, Y2: establishes the positions of the start and end of the gradient Falloff: weights the gradient toward one end or the other of the gradient Color Balance: tints the exposed regions Pinnacle Studio 12 49 MAGIC BULLET LOOKS FOR PINNACLE STUDIO 12 Fill Light (appears in Subject) The Fill Light tool lightens and tints the shadows to bring out detail in the darkest areas of an image. Fill: extent to which the Light Color is added to the scene Light Color: color used to illuminate shadow areas Pinnacle Studio 12 50