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Originally Posted by SBJ
wow I didn't notice that before but it looks great! haha I just brought up the gallery on my iPad and it looked very cool on it too
side note.. I was just looking up 3d and found this 720p 3d camera/camcorder that is pre order at amazon
http://3dvision-blog.com/aiptek-3d-h...nd-for-199-99/
I know at only 5mp it won't be a fraction as good as this but still I wonder if it would be a good entry level 3d camcorder? I won't pre order it but after aug 15th i'll be watching the reviews on amazon for sure haha |
Hi all, its David...I see the thread has taken off a bit..
I wouldnt get that for content shooting though... The lens spacing is not really right, needs to be the same as the human eye, in general, on a device. You can get a 3D bracket for 2 digital cameras and fire them at the same time, then reassemble into a stereo. Im thinking of combining two Canon 5D Mark ii with same lens setup on a bracket. Set focus, check alignment with a mirror prism (not as hard as it sounds, like crossing your eyes for a 3D effect), and use timestamps for the 1920x1080p video streams. You can combine them into a 3D video using StereoMovie Maker, and output into Nvidia 3D Vision video for shutter glasses.
A big side note! BEWARE of fake 3D content that is actually 2D content converted using software (Ive done this before and the results are total crap). Only an actual two camera and lens system can create nice 3D, because it actually captures a slightly different real angle of your subject in full color. If they did not build their own real 3D system, or rent/buy one of the just-released 3D pro-sumer cameras, then its fake. They create it by painting a "depth map" like what is used in 3D graphical rendering software (black/white bump mask) and then the software creates the anaglyph from the depth map (or even worse, they let the software guess and auto create a depth map for dizzy 3D effect).
Anyone out there got the shutter glasses tech on their PC?
http://www.amazon.com/nVidia-GeForce.../dp/B001PV6MCS
Ive made content for this system as well, but have not tested it.
This is my first attempt at 3D, I waited until the tech caught up enough to do real 3D. After trying everything on the market, I say that it is best to build your own system from two high-end cameras, if you want total video quality. Photo is not so hard, and if you shoot your video in planned clips like I do (set, frame, focus lock, shoot for 5-10 sec), then 3D is possible. Continuous 3D shooting in porn-style...uhhh...not so much. Possible, but will be one hell of a hard processing task.
Another side note Ive learned. I am putting out the video from this shoot in Anaglyph 3D on DVD for Amazon sales. But you can not simply take a progressive anaglyph video and transcode it to DVD...it smears the two layers and ruins the 3D. What I learned to do is to use a video tool to create an interlaced video, where the RED channel is on the upper lines, and the blue/green channels are on the lower lines...then you set your transcoder in Encore to NOT reencode the interlaced video stream...and voila...you now have a 3D DVD just like Hanna Montana
I also learned how to make the same video into avatar-style Bluray 3D. Unlike Anaglyph, you dont have to combine your two video streams. The new bluray 3D codec supports multiple video streams and outputs them in 3D TV format for shutter glasses or a DLP polarized projector. Big problem right now is that there is no good way to buy the encoder yet, no-one has 3D bluray players yet, or the 3D tv tech. But this is the proper way to do 3D for the consumer in the near future.
It all comes down to if you have properly shot matching stereo images or videos, you can output to any current or future 3D format.