Active Shutter Compositing

[Paul Fitzgibbon]

Chris, I only have AE CS and this below is in there, I am going to be trying what you are, have my Panasonic 65″ plasma VT25 with BluRay 3D player and three glasses…

“Interlace Upper L Lower R takes the upper (first) field from the Left View layer, and the lower (second) field from the Right View layer, and combines them into a single or a sequence of interlaced frames. Use this option if you want to view the results with polarized or LCD shutter glasses. Select Swap Left-Right to switch fields.”

I believe I will have to render 3D animation at 60 fps, I am going to be using Vue Infinite 7.5
Strata 3D has had a stereoscopic camera tool for 10 years now……. may fool with that also.. I do have Lightwave also, but it seems alien to me….

Also thanks to Walter for info.. and all others….

[Chris Giusti]

I think all that swap left right does is swap the left and right images being displayed (i.e. the frames you put in left and right), not interlace them. Also, polarized glasses and active shutter glasses are different.

[Paul Fitzgibbon]

Hi, when I set the convergence to other than zero in AE, fields are visibly created for left and right. Ten years ago I remember creating an alpha field map in PS for the stereo camera in Strata 3D, they eventually released their own… I never really pursued it much at the time though for obvious reasons.. I will be pursuing this stuff now… will post here …

[Angela Colls]

hi,
[Chris Giusti] I was wondering how I could composite footage I take with a 3D program from 2 cameras to display on an active shutter 3D telesision (like the panasonic viera plasma 3d). I have created some example animations with a left and right eye camera, but how will I compile the footage so that the tv’s glasses recognizes if it’s displaying a right or left eye image?

I was wondering if Chris Guisti was uscessful in making the footage to play correctly on the 3dtv using the active shutter glasses?

I’m currently doing a project at my university and I have been researching for weeks on how to do this but I don’t fully understand if it is possible. I would greatly appreciate anyone’s advice regarding how I can put 2x 2d footage using footage from the left and footage from the right eye and to compile to allow for 3d footage which is visible though the active shutter glasses on the 3dtv?

[Paul Fitzgibbon]

Hello, you need to place both animations in AE Comp either “side by side” or “over and under” squashing them then either horizontally or vertically to fit 1920×1080 and then render.
Your 3D TV then needs to be set to side by side or over and under.
This link will help, I am last comment at bottom.
https://blog.cunnington.co.za/2010/11/16/stereo-pairs-and-3d-video-storage/

[Chris Giusti]

Yes, the way I made it work was using the “SBS” (side-by-side) way, basically you make your composition for each eye and then create a new project that’s twice the width and lay your video sequences down side by side. Then, you read up on how your hardware can be manually switched over to display the Side-By-Side footage in 3D and the hardware should alternate the proper images for each eye on it’s own. Depending on the hardware you may need the 3D in a format that it supports (up/down, SBS, 3D encoded, auto, etc.). Basically all that happens is that it knows the left half is the left and the right half is the right, and communicates with the glasses when to shut each eye.. or with polarized lenses, how to sync the footage. At any rate, I did not find very inexpensive means to do this.. the hardware was a Panasonic G30 I believe, and the button to change the 3D input method was found the the remote.

Good luck.

[Angela Colls]

I would like to thank both Paul Fitzgibbon and Chris Giusti for your input and very quick response, I will be putting it to the test within the next few weeks and hope I can get it to work.

Again thanks very much for the advice.