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Stereoscopic advice
Hi all,
I”ll try to be quick!
I’ve have a client who will be shooting a 5min stereoscopic 3d
corporate job on 5D cameras. The final prog will be projected.He would like to use me to edit and finish in studio.
The problem is I have no experience with this workflow.Many questions, including…
How to prep footage for the cut (cutting at full res).
Do I actually need a 3D monitor for the cut.
Can I grade (in Color) the left and right separately on my 2D grade 1.
I’ll stop there, but you get my drift.I’ve read about two bits of software that I may dive into if they help me get the job done.
Neo3D and Stereo 3D Toolbox.Any thoughts or guidance would be great.
Danny.
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I’m far from an expert on this but we have just started our first 3D job. I can answer some of your questions.
– To use Neo3D you have to convert all the footage to the Cineform codec.
– If you don’t have a 3D monitor it is possible to edit in anaglyph mode with the old style glasses but we have found this can cause pretty bad headaches for the editor after just 30 minutes.
– The budget way of creating 3D content at this time is using Smoke (on a Mac).
– Do some research and get ahead of the game. There are already some good books on the subject. If you can get in now, good stereographers are in demand.————————
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The Canon 5D is a bad choice for stereoscopic shooting. There’s no way to sync the cameras. You should look into using Sony EX3 or Canon XHG1s cameras, with a sync generator connected to both of them to lock them in sync.
Arnie
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Thanks for the info guys!
Best.
Danny. -
[Arnie Schlissel] “You should look into using Sony EX3 or Canon XHG1s cameras, with a sync generator connected to both of them to lock them in sync. “
Sync is only part of this issue with theses cameras.
differing levels of encoding entropy in the Long GOP compression can quickly cause eyestrain, especially when using and over/ under config.
Having worked on 1/2 doz 3D shoots so far and planning for 6 more thru July I can tell you one thing about using HDV or LongGOP cameras to record. DONT!!!
Stick to iframe compression, When you have 2 cameras that are not Slaved to each other as genlock is not locking the acquisition / compression only the video signal.
I will also state that you cannot just stick 2 cameras together to do this well, The more advance work that goes into camera and lens prep the easier post will be. Matching lenses is a bitch, I have had to adjust gearing ratios independently on focus servos because one bozo I was working with tried to do stereo with out matching the lenses and shading the cameras during prep.
gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, ILhttps://blogs.creativecow.net/24640
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