j1clark@ucsd.edu
Veteran
With the growing interest in 3-d movie making, and of course the attendant cost of a real 3-d camera, and burning real film, or even acquiring large digital data glumps...
It occured to me that two cameras mounted on a bracket, and genlocked to each other,
may be the poor person's way to 3-d.
While there still could be a 'frame' phase issue, at least the frame starts would be synchronized, and one camera's strip could be slipped to match the other.
During editing, the two tracks could be 'locked', and for each duplicated edits and effects being applied.
Once the edits are complete, and the final is to be output, output each track as a separate file, then use <to be defined> tool to generate either the red/blue type 3-d, or the type that requires polarized glasses for viewing...
As for the red/blue, there were tools a few years ago that would take stereo stills and apply the appropriate algorithms to generate a single 3-d image. So, one could generate individual frames from the two strips, then use such a tool to generate the single 3-d image, and feed the resulting sequence back into a 'video' format via Quicktime.
(of course if there's some fancy After Effects plugin for this... that's cheap... then by all means use it...)
It occured to me that two cameras mounted on a bracket, and genlocked to each other,
may be the poor person's way to 3-d.
While there still could be a 'frame' phase issue, at least the frame starts would be synchronized, and one camera's strip could be slipped to match the other.
During editing, the two tracks could be 'locked', and for each duplicated edits and effects being applied.
Once the edits are complete, and the final is to be output, output each track as a separate file, then use <to be defined> tool to generate either the red/blue type 3-d, or the type that requires polarized glasses for viewing...
As for the red/blue, there were tools a few years ago that would take stereo stills and apply the appropriate algorithms to generate a single 3-d image. So, one could generate individual frames from the two strips, then use such a tool to generate the single 3-d image, and feed the resulting sequence back into a 'video' format via Quicktime.
(of course if there's some fancy After Effects plugin for this... that's cheap... then by all means use it...)