Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite

About this release

Magic Bullet is a suite of plugins for making footage look graded and cinematic without sitting at a full colour finishing desk. The centrepiece is Looks, a self contained grading environment that runs inside your editor or compositor and stacks camera style tools, lens effects, filters and colour adjustments into a single look you can build, save and reapply.

The rest of the suite fills in the tasks a grade usually needs alongside it. Denoiser cleans up grain and sensor noise while keeping detail, the skin tone and cosmetic tools handle talent without a separate beauty pass, and the film emulation brings the colour response and texture of stock film to a digital clip. Everything is designed to be fast and preset driven rather than exhaustive.

It is a plugin suite, so it installs into the host applications on the machine and appears in their effect lists. That makes it a natural fit for an editor who wants a strong look quickly rather than the control of a dedicated colour application, and the presets give a defensible starting point that you then push to taste.

What it does

• Looks grading environment with stackable camera, lens and colour tools
• Large preset library of ready made cinematic looks
• Denoiser for grain and sensor noise with detail preservation
• Skin tone and cosmetic tools for talent without a separate pass
• Film emulation for stock colour response and texture
• Scopes inside the Looks environment for controlled grading
• Lens effects including diffusion, vignette and chromatic aberration
• Runs inside supported editors and compositors as a plugin
• GPU acceleration for interactive grading
• Saved looks that transfer between projects and machines

Changes in this version

• Faster GPU rendering in the Looks environment
• Improved denoiser detail retention on high ISO footage
• New preset packs across the film and modern look categories
• Better skin tone protection when pushing a strong grade
• Reworked scopes with clearer readouts

What the package contains

• Magic Bullet Suite installer for supported hosts
• Full preset libraries for all tools
• Looks, Denoiser and cosmetic components
• Documentation for the workflow and controls
• Readme with the install order written out step by step

Installation notes

Follow these in order. Most reports of a failed install come from skipping a step rather than from the package itself.

1. Close every host application before you begin.
2. Disconnect from the network.
3. Extract the archive to a short path such as C:\Setup.
4. Run the installer and select which hosts to install into.
5. Apply the included licensing step before launching a host.
6. Open a host and find the tools in its effect list.

System requirements

Things worth knowing

• It is a plugin suite, it needs a supported host application to load into.
• Build a look once and save it, reapplying a saved look across a series keeps the grade consistent.
• Denoiser is GPU heavy, run it on an adjustment layer over a range rather than every clip if the card is weak.

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Listing information

This entry is catalogued under Video & Motion and carries the tags below. Language coverage is English, and the supported platform list is Windows 10, Windows 11. Version 2025.0 is the current catalogued build, last checked 6 days ago, and the entry has been in the index since it was added 2 years ago.