Macgregor's footage with Magic Bullet Editors

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

Hi,

foremost I have to say I'm not a visual expert or a professional color grader, I'm just a low budget director.

I did a test out of curiousity and as it looked pretty good, I've decided to post it here:

I've simply opened a Premiere Pro 2.0 project, with the HD 108024p setting,
imported one of the shots that Macgregor and his crew filmed in the dessert, and just applied a Magic Bullet preset on it (Warmish).
I wanted to see how it looked, and exported to a WMV.
I just wanted to see how the footage would look with a pretty low standard color grading system - if you can even call it that (Magic Bullet Editors).
I'm not looking for artifacts or something, I'm just a director, just wanted to see how it looked (and felt).
You can download the WMV at this link, it's 10MB:

http://rapidshare.com/files/59958906/Engagement_2_with_Magic_Bullet_Editors.wmv.html

If people don't like Rapidshare: you can always put up a mirror, I don't have any server or things like that... bit of a computer noob :blush:
Maybe this footage isn't even interesting for the most of you, but decide for youself. I just wanted to show my little test for fun.

[Chris Swartz]

Looks good!

Could you imagine having the original footage to work with.

BTW how long was that render, even with the compressed footage?


Chris

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

It took me about a half hour to render.
Glad you liked it.

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

This looks better than film... oh, my God :).