Color effects that set the mood for your story

Magic Bullet Looks 2 redefines how you use color with a sophisticated interface, inspiring tools and powerful color grading technology. Kickstart your creativity with professionally designed presets that range from practical lighting scenarios to stylized Hollywood treatments. Looks 2 adds high end color finishing to a project of any budget.

• A huge library of professionally designed presets will kickstart your project or film, ranging from practical lighting scenarios to stylized Hollywood treatments.
• Design a film look that can be used throughout post-production, from pre-vis to edit to the final master.
• Do color correction and color treatments in one place with Colorista II grading technology, which includes 3-Way color wheels and Ranged HSL.
• Great for every artist, from the beginning designer who is inspired by the presets, to the hardcore colorist who builds looks from scratch.
• Six scopes analyze the distribution of color in your image, like memory colors, skin recognition and overbright colors.
• Solve problem shots with tools like Pop for visual contrast and Cosmo for easy cosmetic cleanup of skin tones.
• Process SD, HD, 2K and 4K images on standard hardware, or up to 8K x 8K pixels with the latest NVIDIA GPU's.
Use a built-in GPU/CPU switch to handle large files and improve render speed.
• Bonus filters! Get 14 Misfire plug-ins for dynamic ‘film damage’ effects.
• Share your look with anyone who has Looks 2 in After Effects, FCP, Premiere Pro, Vegas Pro, Motion, Avid, or Looks standalone.
• Full backward compatibility lets you easily work with Looks v1 presets.

Mac

• Mac OSX 10.5.8 and later
• Mac Intel
• 2 GB of RAM
• 30 MB of hard drive space

PC / Windows

• Windows XP SP1 and later
• Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit
• Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit
• Pentium 4 2.4 GHz (or AMD equivalent) and greaterv
• 2 GB of RAM
• 30 MB of hard drive space

Video Cards

Looks 2 will fall back to CPU rendering if there is no GPU or if the graphics card doesn't meet the Looks 2 minimum specs. Looks 2 performance is much better when using a graphics card, and we support a wide variety.

For ATI cards, we recommend ATI 9600 XT or greater, along with an X series card starting with the X700 series. Cards with greater model numbers and at least 128 MB of RAM can run the Looks engine better then CPU alone.

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. 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.

Please Note: All media is processed at 32 bit. For newer cards from ATI and NVIDIA, we recommend a minimum of 320 MB of RAM. For 2K projects, we recommend 512 MB or a larger amount of RAM on the graphics card.

Rendering

In most cases, the Looks plug-in requires rendering to generate final color-corrected output. With host applications like Media Composer, Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro, you can use Looks as a real-time color correction effect with the dynamic playback capabilities. With applications such as Apple Motion and Adobe After Effects, rendering is required to generate any output with Looks applied. In general, the faster the graphics card, the faster the rendering of media. NVIDIA cards are generally faster than ATI cards of the same level for HD or HDV projects.

Please Note The maximum render size in Looks is 8192 x 8192, 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.

Supported Software Language(s): English