[Matt Hall]

Thanks for the reply. That’s the approach I’ve been trying. I made my new file the exact same length, buty I don’t think I can control the size exactly. Why do you think the size would that matter?

But also I don’t know the way to create a VOB file from a new file without using an authoring software. I tried to cheat by just renaming an mpeg i exported from fcp, but that didn’t seem to work.

Matt Hall
Director, Digital Post
CCG MetaMedia, Inc.

[Matt Hall]

my dvd player willl hsow it to you if you put the display on, I believe you can also open the files up in quicktime pro and take a look there. but in quicktime you have to look at the audio and video rates separately and add them together.

[Matt Hall]

Its called DVD Authoring. Or you can choose a forum for the software you are using (dvd studio pro or whatever).

Matt Hall
Director, Digital Post
CCG MetaMedia, Inc.

[Matt Hall]

One possibility is that the total bit rate is too high and the one dvd player can’t handle it. How high is your combined (audio & video) bit rate?

Matt Hall
Director, Digital Post
CCG MetaMedia, Inc.

[Matt Hall]

We are in the middle of a 3D project right now, and although we didn’t shoot any original material, we are using perviously recorded stereoscopic video and creating stereoscopic 3D animation. There are a few methods of displaying steroscopic material. The first is the good old red/blue method where one cameras material is tinted red, the other blue and you view it by wearing red/blue glasses. Another method is the interlaced method where each camera is split into the upper and lower fields. This is what we have used. It is played back on a monitor that has a polarizing filter in front of it that is synched to the video. You wear polarized glasses to view the 3D. You can also split the video into two playback sources (one displaying the upper field/right camera – one displaying lower field/left camera) and project them on top of each other. There are a few more techniques that can be used as well. Here’s a few more resources:

https://www.epanorama.net/documents/pc/3dglass.html

https://www.stereographics.com/support/downloads_support/handbook.pdf

Matt Hall
Director, Digital Post
CCG MetaMedia, Inc.

[Matt Hall]

check out a sample of that on trapcode’s gallery page:

https://www.trapcode.com/gallery.html

look at the stuff by Jason Koxvold

Matt Hall
Director, Digital Post
CCG MetaMedia, Inc.

[Matt Hall]

Thanks for ideas, i’m going to keep them in mind for future issues. But for this one i think I’ll have to make do. appreciate the feedback.

Matt Hall
Director, Digital Post
CCG MetaMedia, Inc.

[Matt Hall]

Interesting idea, using displacement to combine the two angles. Definitely more than i want to do and more than they payed for. I think the difference between the two cameras is too dramatic.

I did bring a test file into after effects and let AE do the deinterlacing instead of final cut. got a better looking image that way. Not perfect, but better looking. I think there really is no way to accomplish what he’s asking for, it had to have been recorded that way. Only thing I’m curious about and want to explore is maybe some hardware solution? Are there boxes that duplicate fields and can give me better result than AE?

Really appreciate the feedback.

Matt Hall
Director, Digital Post
CCG MetaMedia, Inc.

[Matt Hall]

Zaxwerks just came out with a 3D flag plug-in for AE that might do what you need:

https://www.zaxwerks.com/2004/3dflag.html

Matt Hall
Director, Digital Post
CCG MetaMedia, Inc.

[Matt Hall]

how about this-
you have your chart build with all the regular bars (80%, 20%, etc.). Then build on your 100% bar, add a number to the top of it that keeps growing up 10% – 50% – 80% and so on. Then make the bar chart fall away below and in the background make it look like things are speeding by. Make the numbers grow 100% – 500% 1000%.

Matt Hall
Director, Digital Post
CCG MetaMedia, Inc.