Now the first one I played with were the scratches. Once you click on the MisFire Bin, you’ll notice all fourteen of the various plug-ins that are automatically added with just dropping the first MisFire effect into your clip. Scroll down the list, and you’ll see MisFire with the other Magic Bullet plug-ins. Once loaded, you’ll find MisFire in the Video Effects Section of Premiere Pro. I was pretty happy with the results, but I wanted to add something to make it more stylized, and make it look less like video. There are 14 different plug-ins that make up the MisFire plug-in, and you can add, remove and tweak them to your liking using key frames in either Premiere Pro or After Effects CS5.5 or other NLE.Īfter editing and color grading that footage using Magic Bullet Quick Looks. With Magic Bullet Misfire, you have complete control over all of the aspects that go into creating the old film look.

The issue with this for pro applications is that you’re stuck with the effect, making sure your project will look just like every other piece that uses this effect. With most of these, a preset filter is applied that usually throws in some grain and scratches and desaturates the image. It’s even a standard preset for many consumer cameras. You’ve seen this effect, it’s everywhere it seems.

Misfire is a plug-in that lets you transcend your footage from new to old. Looking at the plug-in, I’ve used Premiere Pro to apply it to a short film I’ve I shot of the Access 59 Car Show using the iPhone4. I went back to the RedGiant website and searched and found just a small amount of information on their blog.Īharon Rabinowitz has written a good warm up about MisFire, along with some information about similar programs.

Once I loaded the Suite and opened it up for the first time in Premiere Pro CS5.5 - there it was. I say unsung, because there’s not any mention of it being part of the Magic Bullet Suite.

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