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This week’s freebie Thursday we have found Red Giant’s Colorista Free and Lut Buddy. Both plugins are really helpful for those who are color grading their piece.  

Colorista Free is a small and yet powerful Three-way color correction wheel.

Magic Bullet Colorista Free is a simplified, elegant color corrector that anyone can share and use. Our popular 3-Way wheels and RGB numeric sliders give everything you need for basic color grading, and it is workflow-ready for sharing industry standard CDL data.

Lut Buddy is a very nice tool that can draw and read patterns of colors on your video or correction. You save the reading pattern and you can make all your footage look the same as the original footage. It’s amazing!

Magic Bullet LUT Buddy was designed for the professional colorist and bridges the gap from desktop applications to high end systems and hardware boxes. Use Magic Bullet LUT Buddy with host apps like After Effects and FCP to output LUTs and communicate with higher end systems ranging from DaVinci Resolve to Panasonic displays. If you’re already using 1D or 3D LUT’s in your workflow, this tool was designed for you to share values between compliant software and devices.


Both freebie Thursday works with Adobe After Effects CS3, CS4 and CS5; Adobe Premiere Pro CS5; Final Cut Pro 6 and 7; and Motion 3 and 4.


How-To Make a Video Friendly Photography Lenses

⬰Gear, ⬰Rigs, ⬰Camera and ⬰Lenses. Now what should you do after? Let’s say you ended up like me. Possibly got everything, including a new follow focus and possibly a not so good focus gear that can actually focus one’s shot for a small amount of time. Is there any way to fix this issue? I reflected on what might happen on my next upcoming project. There’s going to be a lot steady shots, plus a lot of rack focusing, and I will be needing some external light source. I need to put this together to get myself ready. This should be my next small side project before Ghost Lab Whisperer Incorporated begins. I need to convert my lenses into a more video friendly use for my upcoming production. As for work-flow wise and to keep myself in control throughout the whole production.

Fear not, my dearly followers:

Caleb Pike from DSLR Video Shooter has made a couple of videos explaining on how to future proof your photography lenses. Turning those lenses into a full flesh video lens. Which it will work for stills and videos.

Also, he continues explaining more in his second video on how to prepare your lenses:

Got links?

  1. Lens Gear
  2. Set up Rings
  3. Lens Cap

I will be posting new photos on how the conversion is progressing. Also, will showcase a small video review with the Lens Gear in a week or two! Want to learn more from Caleb Pike? Go here. Got some more tips? Please leave us your tips on how to make your camera lens in to a video friendly lens in our Comment section. Post written by: Victor Gregory | http://victor-gregory.com