[Matt Mcgovern]

Yeah, I got the same problem. Apparently, Sony Vegas automatically applies frame blending. I looked up one way to disable this, but the disc I burned still had the ghosting issue. Unfortunately, because of other projects, I haven’t been able to get back to this and figure out what I did wrong. But there are threads out there with people who said that when they disabled the frame blending, that solved all their ghosting issues. I’d love to hear if you find a fix to this. Cheers.

[Matt Mcgovern]

I would check two things first: 1 – do you have your L/R streams set up properly in the project timeline, and 2 – are you exporting the properly encoded format (MVC).

[Matt Mcgovern]

I believe that as long as you use the proper (MVC) format to create that .iso file, you should be good with the active shutter glasses.

[Matt Mcgovern]

The first thing you’ll definitely need to do is upgrade from Vegas 10.0c to Vegas 10.0e. This was the first problem I had; I didn’t know that the ability to write a properly encoded 3D file is not built in to 10.0c. In any of the versions, you can certainly edit in 3D, and view your output in 3D. But you have to have 10.0e (or, I believe, 10.0d) in order to write with the MVC encoded format. (MVC being the encoding that processes 2 streams into the .iso file)

You’ll have to clarify on “stereosonic 3 setup.” If you are referring to setting your timeline and footage for stereoscopic 3D, then yes. And if so, there are a few spots you have to adjust the preferences.

It sounds like you may have adequate equipment. But you have to find out if your tv is 3D ready and capable of connecting with a 1.4 HDMI cable. Obviously, your player and burner should be fine.

[Matt Mcgovern]

So, are you looking for a way to put the images/video you capture on your Fuji W3 onto a blu-ray?

[Matt Mcgovern]

Hey all,

I am currently working on creating 3D blu-rays to easily display work my company has done, and I wanted to get feedback on/share what I’ve gathered. (please bear with me as my technical spec knowledge is far from perfect) This is where I’ve gotten so far:

I’m using Sony Vegas 10.0e (note: 10.0c does not have MVC codec support, but I believe 10.0d in addition to 10.0e do have MVC).

I’ve brought my stereo imagery into the program to cut it how I need it (to Vegas). In order to do this, you I created a “subclip” or single clip representation of two streams (in order to cut them identically). So that the streams are paired with each other (the Right eye dependent upon the Left).

One thing I’d like to note that was discussed earlier in this thread, is the side-by-side setting that can be set in the file->Preferences menu. I asked a guy at sony about this, and he said that this setting doesn’t have any bearing on what you write out of the program. That this setting is only for your stereo output/viewing as you are using the program. So, just wanted to be sure that wasn’t being relied on for the format you actually write your files in (I made this mistake at least once). There seems to be a lot of redundancy in locations for stereo settings but they don’t all affect the same parts of the process.

The more important reason I mention this is that regardless of how you are to use the stereo settings of the program (viewing, writing or otherwise), apparently (and this is upon recommendation from the gentleman I’ve been in contact with) the optimal way to use Vegas is to prepare your material for an active shutter glasses + hdmi 1.4 connection + 3D blu-ray player + 3D ready tv (that supports full 1920×1080) resolution set-up.

So, once I’ve got my cut of the material, I used “Tools->Burn Disc-> Blu-ray disc” to write out from Vegas. (Obviously this is not the only method, but this was what my contact recommended)

In the box that appears for the blu-ray burn options, there is a “video format” drop down, which at this point contains only one option: Sony AVC/MVC (*.mp4; *.m2ts; *.acv). There is a “video template” drop down with three options, and I have selected: MVC 1920×1080-24p, 25Mbps video stream.

(My video is 2 streams, 23.976fps, 1920×1080 progressive YUV Mbps Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000.)

When I tried this process using 10.0c, Vegas was able to render a file, then immediately burn it to a disc. However, with 10.0e (and I’m assuming 10.0d), Vegas will only write a 3D file and can not burn directly to the disc. The guy at Sony explained it to me that burning 3D to a blu-ray disc requires a vast amount of copyrights and abiding by all sorts of rules, etc. that was very complicated and I’m assuming costs them a lot of money to include the capability. So, for this reason, sony vegas will not allow you to burn a 3D file to blu-ray. For this, you will need a secondary program, which I will get back to in a moment.

So, what this meant for the “burn disc” dialogue box, is that there was no actual “burn to disc” option to select at the top (as with writing any other file to dvd or blu-ray form the program), only “Render Image Only” which will automatically be set if you have your stereo imagery set up properly in your project. Ultimately, once I have all these settings as I’ve described them here, Vegas writes an .ISO file. If you’re not familiar, this is a type of image file that is capable of containing two streams of information, one identified as a base stream, the other as dependent. And this dependence is designated by the encoding of the MVC format.

Once I rendered the .ISO file, I was able to use NERO (which I believe is available as a free download, at least for trial use) to burn it to a Blu-ray disc.

I handed it off to one of my co-workers who has a compatible set-up at home and it worked. (Oppo blu-ray player, 1.4hdmi cable, samsung LED tv) It played in 3D at full res. The only issue that came up thus far, was that there is significant amount of ghosting of the images when viewed on his set-up. I am waiting for him to try it out on a few other set-ups at the local Best Buy to see if that makes a difference (possibly from the refresh rate of the television).

As far as Authoring (creating menu’s, navigation for multiple clips/videos) and higher production level encoding, I haven’t delved into it. And as described earlier in this thread, everything I’ve seen has been pretty expensive. The only “cheaper” option, for encoding, was Do Studio’s “Net Blender,” which was still around $6,000us.

Please let me know if anyone has tried similar set ups, has any questions about what I’ve done, or has seen any similar results.

Cheers.