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Creating a 3D movie on FCP and Motion…the kind that uses 3D glasses
I have been given the unusual task of figuring out if it is possible to take existing footage, and create a 3D video segment for a client…the kind that requires the 3D glasses. I have a few ideas in mind that I personally am not too sure if they will work or not…as well as some ideas on software that will apparently help convert my files to the 3D format. However, all of the software that I have either seen or have been given to me by other animators and editors to try out (freeware) are all PC based. Also, the low tech ideas that I have been mulling over are ideas that I have not fully experimented yet, and as a result, are still theories.
Does anyone know of any mac based software or any tricks that they know that will help with this client request? Just as a side note…I pretty much may not be shooting any new footage, so any suggestions in the wrealm of capturing images as 3D-although greatly apreciated-may not be that helpful for me in the long run.many many thanks…
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Am I understanding you that the footage you are going to use was NOT SHOT in 3D…
or do you have some film or video that WAS already shot in a 3D situation?If the original footage is standard “flat” footage, you simply CAN’T make it into 3D, there is no 3D “information”.
If the original footage WAS shot in 3D, then its important to know the 3D format of the footage.
Can you give us more info?
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Pretty much everything you had mentioned in the previous post are all the facts. All of the original source footage are all “flat” 2D…
However, I have come across a piece of software that I tried out on my PC that turned 2D video files into 3D video. Granted, the video was not 100% 3D, it did manage to create some depth on some items on screen. In essence, itjust duplicated the image, and raised the Blues on one image, and the Reds on another image, resulting with some of the images turning into 3D.
Now if I were to apply this kind of half-assed video muxing to FCP…could I not in theory take a video file, place them one on top of each other, raise the reds on one, and the blues on the other while fading them both so that they both become visible on screen…
Now i know that this will result in a very unusual video image…but will this crazy idea actually create the impression that the video is 3D?
thanks…
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There used to be a stereoscopic plug-in for AE, but I’ve never seen one in FCP. The best way to do stereoscopic is to shoot it that way. I believe that Hitachi used to make a hi8 Stereo camcorder, but since then–not much has popped up in this field. For all the lowdown, go here:
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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[videoservices@tvb.ca] “Now if I were to apply this kind of half-assed video muxing to FCP…could I not in theory take a video file, place them one on top of each other, raise the reds on one, and the blues on the other while fading them both so that they both become visible on screen…
Now i know that this will result in a very unusual video image…but will this crazy idea actually create the impression that the video is 3D? “
Not enough to notice.
Without any left-right DIFFERENCE between the “red scene” and the “blue scene”
there would be no depth to SEE.You COULD try making the two colored “scenes” be off-set in TIME by a frame or two.
But I guessing that you’d have just about as much “success” by having the viewers simply put on the red/blue glasses at a given point in the video and TELLING them it was 3D… OOOH–AHHHH!
This is similar to the problem of wanting to create a “broad sound-stage” STEREO audio from only a mono source.
There are ways to “comb-filter” and/or “reverb” the single track and send it to the 2 channels, but what you’re left with is still a very flat, non-directional (and somewhat “muddied”) track.
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