Magic Bullet Grinder is a day late and a dollar long
I like Red Giant Software’s Magic Bullet products — I spent my hard-earned money on Magic Bullet Suite, which is a great cross-platform color-correction tool. But their new plugin, Magic Bullet Grinder, doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Why? Because there’s already a free tool from Canon that does the same thing.
Grinder’s tagline — “Get video out of your DSLR and into Final Cut Pro, fast!” — is appealing. The $49 price tag would be reasonable, if Canon hadn’t released their terrific E1 Log and Transfer plugin — which is gratis — in March. I assume Red Giant had been working on Grinder for a while, and that the release of E1 kind of foiled their plans (although Canon’s plugin had been publicized since mid-2009, when it was still in development by Glue Tools — Canon bought the plugin from Glue Tools and released it free several months later). Grinder does do a few things that E1 doesn’t, like burn in timecode (not only to the files, which E1 does, but to the actual video itself) and conform 60p clips to 24p for easier slow-mo use. But I can’t help but feel that Red Giant should’ve either folded Grinder into their Magic Bullet Suite as a free bonus, or added more features to separate it from its free alternative.
Link: Red Giant Software: Magic Bullet Grinder 1.0
Link: Pro Video Coalition’s review
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- Canon Updating EOS E1 Plugin for 60D, Multi-Core Support - NoFilmSchool on 08.30.10 @ 9:11AM
At least you said it. Seems most reviewers are mainly interested in selling.