3D For Me .

[Mark Suszko]

You probably can’t say, but I’d be very curious what the video was of and about, and for what market. As to finding cameras, go back just one or two issues of the COW magazine, there’s a whole issue devoted to it. Panasonic’s new camera with the built-in 3d is not yet shipping, I don’t think, but when it does it ought to garner a lot of rentals.

[Noah Kadner]

Depends what you mean by “resources.” You can happily rent the PACE 3D rig used by James Cameron on Avatar if you’ve got the dough. But I suspect that’s not really what you meant? If you’re talking reasonably good prosumer 3D, well you can either wait for Panasonic or Sony’s 3D prosumer cameras coming later this year or make your own. For example you can easily gang together two EX1s or HVX200 with an off the shelf 3D camera rig such as:

https://www.pstechnik.de/en/3d-rig.php

Not sure what part you’re playing for your client- assuming DP but they really need to seek out and hire a stereographer if they want the job done right. 3D is a buzz word these days but not a ton of work is really being done below the level of the event film.

Noah

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[Andy Stinton]

The client wants to create a ” cool” space on a trade show floor for VIP clients.

Andy Stinton
Corporate Video
Live & Stage Events
Business Practices

[Mark Suszko]

Is the 3-D demoing something specific like a product, say, a medical scanner? Or is it more like an entertainment thing? You know, like Doctor Tongue’s 3-d House of Pancakes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m2gl51J6lo&feature=related

Or is it something like a 3d avatar spokesmodel thing? I’m asking because what the specific goal is, pretty much drives the choices of shooting and display technology for it.

[Noah Kadner]

“The client wants to create a ” cool” space on a trade show floor for VIP clients.”

That’s nice- but practically speaking how can we help you?

Noah

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[Andy Stinton]

Noah. Sorry if I was not specific enough

My role is the production company for the whole event. The 3D part is just one element of it. We would produce about 5- 3min films coupled with environmental effects within the area. Some would be projected and others be shown on LCD’s .

I was trying to ascertain the price and availability of equipment and personnel to assess the viability of the 3d video project.

I found your comment “but not a ton of work is really being done below the level of the event film.”very motivational. Its those new expanding markets that my company likes to develop.
The live event/staging industry is very competitive and I see this as possible point of difference.

Its seems that already the cameras are on there way in the next few months and at affordable prices.

Andy Stinton
Corporate Video
Live & Stage Events
Business Practices

[Noah Kadner]

yeah the Panasonic and Sony cameras are real no brainers for getting decent i.e. not Avatar but better than Clash of the Titans level 3D. So if you can hold things off for a quarter you’ll be good to go. Otherwise, look into the rigs I mentioned.

Noah

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Learn DSLR Cinematography.

[Mark Suszko]

These guys are just basically making a large teleprompter with a pepper’s ghost illusion.

https://www.tradeshowhologram.com/

You could do something even larger than this sample above, using really powerful projectors and either a taut plastic film or the fine projection screen material they use at the “Ghosts of the Library” exhibit at the Abe Lincoln presidential Library and Museum. It is really just 2-d video in high def, projected onto a beamsplitter, moderated by controlled lighting. But when done right, still very impressive. And because it is a 2-d projection, you could feed it pre-recorded or live material, say, from a hidden booth off to the side, where the spokesmodel sits or stands in a booth or greenscreen set, shot by a camera.

Other non- TV type displays involve projecting onto a curtain of specially compressed laminar flowing air… or a waterfall of fan-driven mist or fog. Very good for a trade show patio area, where you can control the viewing angles and lighting. Or a display based on persistence of vision effect could project lasers on a spinning blade, or the blade can carry LEDs that will seem to write in thin air. Googe POV illusion displays for that one. I bet the guys in the COW live/stage forum would be able to point you to resources for executing thi stuffs on whatever budget you might have.
Tell them Woody Tobias Jr. sent you.

[Mark Suszko]

https://www.io2technology.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCmZ3d3ZnVI&feature=player_embedded

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[Mark Suszko]

This guy has some demos ofcamera setups and the editing software for making real 3-d videos and not just anaglyph 2-color type:

https://stereopictures.de/premiere-pro-cs5-stereoscopic-3d-video-editing-with-dave-helmley/

Once again, Adobe Premiere is kicking Apple’s butt, this time in 3-d.