[Mrshow555]

I’ve found stuff on Monster House and Polar Express, but that all deals with CG and creating a sperate angle of the frame in post which they can do easily since they’re creating the images on a computer. There are however no tips on shooting. I’m more interested in finding out info on say Spy Kids 3D or Shark Boy and Lava Girl- but the production side, every article is mainly about the post process :/

[Mrshow555]

Here’s what I’ve been able to come up with as how to exaplain the kind of technique I’d like to do and how to achieve this in After Effects…

There is a VHS tape around Roller Coaster Thrills – in 3D. The process works something like this: NTSC writes one half of those horizontal TV lines first, then the other half (“interlacing”). When you darken the Left image for the first half, and lighten Right for the next scan, plus wear dark-light glasses your anaglyph vision is there. Works fine.

But I still can’t find anything on tips for shooting the videos, it all seems to be post-prod tips. One major piece of advice I found is to have the 2 cameras mounted 2.5″ apart to simulate the human eye. But then a different site said the distance between the camera should be about 1/30th of the distance between the camera and the subject. I’m still trying to determine how you set your screen plane (think 0 axis) so that you can determine what comes off the screen and what falls back into the distance.

On a side note, here’s some tutorials on how to do Anaglyph 3D (red/blue glasses):

https://kirk.caset.buffalo.edu/~depape/212/Main/AnaglyphTutorialWithFinalCut

https://www.puppetkites.net/329?action=print

[Mrshow555]

thats using the red/blue method. i’m looking more for a way to do the polarizing effect without having to project from two sources. Is this even possible?

The effect works like this:
https://www.3dglassesonline.com/how-do-3d-glasses-work/3-d-glasses-polarization-new.gif

But is there a way to shoot the two cams 2.5″ apart, each with different polarizing filters and combine the two in post instead of projecting them onto a screen? Does the polarization get captured or is that an optical effect only achievable during live projection?

[Mrshow555]

Thanks for the help everyone! I heart the Creative Cow comunity 🙂

-Bill

[Mrshow555]

I’m editing miniDV. Which settings do I need to upconvert it to DigiBeta, 8 or 10bit? Or does that depend on the system we’re laying it off with?

SIDE QUESTION: My footage was shot with 16×9 bars and I tried using the crop feature like the video instructed but it just squished the footage. How do I get it to actually crop off the bars so that the video being output is only the video, no bars?

[Mrshow555]

So is there any need to upconvert my footage first? I found a decent tutorial on how to do that with Compressor here:

https://www.proapptips.com/videos/_DV_to_DVCPRO_HD.mov

I’m just not sure which setting to use for DigiBeta instead of HD.