What is Magic Bullet Frames?
Start with ordinary interlaced video, apply Magic Bullet Frames’ sophisticated algorithms, and you’ll get the smooth, professional, and de-interlaced look of 24p film. Choose between motion-adaptive and field-blended approaches, as well as true deinterlacing in After Effects and you’ll get high quality footage at high speeds, right in your editor’s timeline.
Magic Bullet Frames is a native plug-in that runs inside Adobe After Effects (version 7 and CS3); Premiere Pro (version 2, CS3); Apple Final Cut Pro (version 5.1.4 and 6.0); and Apple Motion (version 3.0).
What's Included in Magic Bullet Frames?
Magic Bullet Frames includes all of the filters from past versions of Magic Bullet Suite, including the Magic Bullet frame rate converter (now called Frames Plus), Letterboxer, Broadcast Spec, Opticals, and Deartifacter. These tools remain After Effects-only plug-ins. The package now also includes a new plug-in called Frames that is aimed at providing reasonable quality deinterlacing and frame rate conversion within After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Motion. The Frames plug-in delivers both field-blended and motion-adaptive deinterlacing, and includes letterboxing and scan offsetting.
The new Frames plug-in in After Effects
Magic Bullet Frames Plus
Magic Bullet Frames Plus is the renamed plug-in, formerly called Magic Bullet, which is the workhorse plug-in that converts the video sources to 24p and helps you reduce some of the artifacts present in digital video footage. These operations are separate, so you can use Frames Plus to deartifact progressive scan (or faux progressive scan) footage, or you can deinterlace footage without otherwise affecting it.
Opticals
Opticals allows you to generate beautiful film-like fades to black, burns to white, and cross-dissolves.
Letterboxer
LetterBoxer allows you to crop your output to standard film and television aspect ratios simply and effectively, regardless of the pixel aspect ratio of your composition.
Broadcast Spec
Broadcast Spec is designed for Magic Bullet projects that must meet NTSC broadcast specifications. It has settings for DV output as well as uncompressed standard-definition output devices such as Aja Kona, or Black Magic Decklink add-in cards. Since many HD projects will be broadcast over Standard Definition airwaves, Magic Bullet users can also make good use of Broadcast Spec.
Deartifacter
A stand alone plug-in that offers the same chroma smoothing features found in the Magic Bullet Frames Plus plug-ins Deartifacting group.