Magic Bullet Looks in Avid 6

I would think pretty good. I've had some plug-ins in my PC MC from the 3.0 days... they seem to work fine in 5.5.3
 
Jesse Brauning said:
So... What are the chances we'll see compatibility?
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Unfortunately, not good. Anything before MC6 was 32-bit. All plugins now have to be 64-bit compatibility.

The good news is that Red Giant is making a 64-bit version of Magic Bullet Looks. I know because I asked them. They told me at the end of the year.

I upgraded to MC6 today. Had some licensing issue which cost me a few hours of my life but now all is good. :)

Simon
 
I upgraded too. Unfortunately the reason I upgraded - for AMA support of AVCHD - appears totally worthless. I can't playback or transcode AMA AVCHD footage. And I thought my PC was pretty fast - it handles everything else I throw at it.
 
I heard people are having with the AVCHD - AMA but I am sure they will fix that in the next patch. In general, I find AMA too computer intensive. I use AVCHD also and just convert it to DNxHD which is a very good codec and makes MC fly. Yes, it sucks to have to convert video files to a new codec but once it is done, you are good to go!

Simon
 
I upgraded in avid mc6 , but no avchd support !
Same on you Avid.... Fcpx and premiere cs5 plays them easilly .
 
same here. AMA linking is much too processor heavy. Not the end of the world though - DNxHD is a great codec so I think it's worth the transcode. Just spoke with Red Giant and that's more annoying - Magic Bullet v1 is not compatible with MC6, not will it ever be - they tell me that if and when they get Looks working with MC6 I'll need to buy the upgrade to Magic Bullet v 2 in any case. nice way to force us to buy more from them! I've also found an issue with re-linking old projects. Had some offline media and tried to batch import, but for some reason MC6 brings in 3 frames less than the original file on batch import, so it's failing to do it and giving a 'clip too short' error. hopefully they'll fix this soon, as I've just had to manually re-sync an edit. Apart from those issues, I'm really liking the new interface, Avid gets better and better I think - notwithstanding these teething problems!
 
Yeah, definitely a few bugs but unfortunately that is normal for a new release. The "batch import" issue is the most annoying for me but I know they are working on a patch that will fix a lot. Hopefully that will come sooner than later. Otherwise, I love MC6 too.

Simon
 
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