Magic Bullet Looks

Does Magic Bullet Looks use Apple's Installer application to place it's files on your drive? Is their a .pkg file for the software in Library/Receipts?

If not, Disk Utility's Repair Permissions function will not make any difference.

You will have to set it's permissions by hand or delete and reinstall the package.

Then your best and fastest bet is probably delete and reinstall.
Those files are all stored in the main Library, which means you will have to authenticate every change with your admin password. That could get tiresome.

Did this get resolved? If not try downloading the latest installer [Looks v1.2] and see if this resolves the issue

Ryan,
I have the same exact problem! I tried the ridiculous permissions instruction from red giant - that did absolutely nothing! I installed it for After Effects and that worked fine but nothing for FCP

Having the exact same problem. Any solution? It's very frustrated.

Thanks.

I'm having the opposite problem. I successfully installed Magic Bullet Looks for FCP (v6) but I'm having no luck seeing any of the presets etc in After Effects CS4.

The Adobe After Effects forum would be the place to ask for help.

Good luck,

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The internet is filled with people searching for a solution for this problem and Red Giant SOftware (developer of MBL) posted this:

If you have an NVIDIA video card and have not yet updated to OSX 10.5.7, is not advised to update if you wish to continue to use Magic Bullet Looks and Quick Looks. We are continuing to learn more about this issue.

Okay, but I've updated my system already and MBL isn't working anymore!!!!

When will Apple accept that this is an Apple problem - and when will there be a solution for that???

Steve, please recover soon...

The error is BACK with the new version of Final Cut Pro 7.0...

Why? What's going on here?

Now MBL will freeze for minutes again after using a look.

PLEASE, PLEASE fix this forever and soon!

There was a post here yesterday where someone had a problem with Magic Bullet and FCP7.
Turns out that the solution is to apply the latest update to MB. It cures several issues.
Head over to the Red Giant site and grab a copy.

This problem was there before version 7 of FCP, then there came some FCP patches from Apple... after the last one - FCP and MBL - worked together again with absolutely no problem.

But now I've installed FCP 7 and the freezing FCP problem is back again - and unfortunately there is no solution on the Red Giant website for that!

I'm a little bit tired of each side blaming the other side... for me it's an Apple problem, because everything worked fine again until FCP version 7. Now we have the same problem as we had in the past... :-((