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3D in a CRT MONITOR… HELP
Hi!
I’m using After Effects CS3 and I’m trying to make 3D video footage. After the process of geting the images by using two equal cameras, I’m using the effect “3D GLASSES” to make the video 3D. The problem is that after editing the film, it looks nice on the computer or in an LCD MONITOR but when I make a DVD out of it an play it on a CRT MONITOR (normal TV) the quality sucks, its very different from the one I see (with the same bruned DVD) on an LCD or computer monitor. Why does this happens? Does any one have a solution? Is there anything I can do to make it work properly on a CRT MONITOR?
Any process? Any effect?
Please help me!
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8 Replies
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one problem could be the connection from the dvd player to the tv you tested on… what is the connection, component or hdmi (although there are not a ton of hdmi crt’s around) would be good, composite or ref (coaxial) would be bad.
and are you viewing these with 3d glasses on?
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
The DVD is fine, I’ve tested that particular DVD and others that I made, and I tested in different CRT’s MONITORS and the problem is always the same: the result is very different from the one that I get in the computer Monitor… and YES, I’m using 3D glasses (Left eye RED, Right eye BLUE).
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describe what sucks about the quality, what is different on the lcd vs the tv.
tvs are lower quality than your lcd panel, they are analog, they don’t have pixels, they don’t have nearly the contrast range and they refresh much slower than even computer crts. in addition the color space is smaller than the rgb color space of you computer and lcd panel.
this really may be a dvd forum question… does the cow have a forum for your dvd software?
the only thing that i can think of, is that maybe your dvd software (or mpeg-2 encoding software, if you encoded prior), didn’t make a rgb-yuv color space conversion and the tvs are having problems with the color space. have you burned other dvds fine using the same process you’re using (but not 3d)?
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
The image was no quality when comparing it to the one of the computer…I intented to make a DVD for sale with 3D Video for people to see on their home, but like this it
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i think i’ve been misunderstanding your problem, i thought you mentioned that the dvd looked good on the computer, bad on a tv… so i want to get this straight.
- everything in ae looks good… including the render out of ae.
- you take the render into premiere and it still looks good.
- but when you export the final piece out of premiere it looks bad, even when you take it to back into ae…?
if this is correct, then how are you exporting from premiere?
you might want to check the premiere pro or encore forums for the perfered workflow, but generally speaking you would want to render your piece as uncompressed or lossless (or possibly as a reference movie) from your nle. take that to a compression utility like compressor or sorenson squeeze for mpeg-2 encoding. take that to the dvd software to create the dvd.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
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can you view the ntsc/pal output from ae? or at least view from ae on the crt monitor?
if you have a firewire camera, you can set ae to video preview through the firewire to the camera. you can then connect a tv to the camera’s outputs and see your 3d glasses comp on the tv.
this way you can test the settings you are using in the 3d glasses effect and see the result instantly on the tv. i think you will need to make sure everything is looking correct on a tv or broadcast monitor in ae before we can try to trouble shoot anything further down the line…
there are several options for combining the shots into a 3d view, some may work better than others. in addition several settings have tuning adjusments, to test these setting you will want to be able to see the results on a tv interactively.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
THKS!!!!
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