By Elina Shatkin, November 18, 2003
Red Giant Software today announced that Landing Light Films, based in Windsor, UK, used Magic Bullet Suite to complete its first short film, Failing to Stop. The film was subsequently entered into both the Sundance Film Festival and BFI Shorts competitions. Magic Bullet Suite allowed the filmmakers to achieve a cinematic look and retain and enhance the image quality of the short when it was converted from a 25I to a 25P format.
Landing Light used Magic Bullet Suite to remove some of the color artifacts introduced by DV compression. The Magic Bullet deinterlacer was able to retain the quality of the images -- where the production company’s previous attempts at the progressive “film look” had resulted in loss of vertical resolution or seriously degraded the image quality
. Landing Light also designed a custom look using the software’s Look Suite that suited the tone of the film, helping to ensure consistency from shot to shot.
Because Failing to Stop was made on a micro budget, it was shot with DV video equipment. The intention, however, was to create a finished product with as close to a film look as possible. During each production phase, the team used film industry techniques to achieve the flavor of a short movie rather than a video production. All of the post-production on the film was completed in the “digital domain” including editing, digital coloring, compositing, and sound processing.
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