3D Projects

Davesm wrote on 4/17/2012, 11:18 AM

I have just bought a Sony TD20 camcorder and have recorded a test 3D movie. I then transferred it to my desktop's hard drive and created a 3D project using Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11.0. But when I try to render and burn a blu-ray disc, I only get the radio option to "Render Image Only". I was expecting a "Render image and burn" option? Am I missing something?
Also, will DVD Architect 5.0 enable me to create a 3D disc, using the rendered project file?
(fyi I also have a Sony 3D TV and a Sony 3D Blu-ray Disc player)

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 4/17/2012, 12:13 PM

I don't believe you can create a 3D DVD from Vegas Movie Studio, Dave.

Using the software that comes with the program, in fact, about all you can output is an anaglyphic (red/blue) 3D video for the Web.

Davesm wrote on 4/17/2012, 2:37 PM

Oh well, guess I'll have to settle for that :-(
Shame to waste the full potential of the camcorder. Hopefully, the next version of Vegas Movie Studio will have the functionality to do so.

Thanks for the feed-back, Steve.

Tim L wrote on 4/17/2012, 3:59 PM

I don't have VMS, and I don't have any 3D experience, but according to the VMS quick-start guide you should be able to render "side-by-side (half)" format and burn to a DVD or Blu-ray disc, and get 3D output on most (recent) 3D capable TV's.

Download the Quickstart guide here:
http://dspcdn.sonycreativesoftware.com/manuals/moviestudiope110_qsg_enu.pdf

3D stuff starts on page 51, and "Rendering a stereoscopic 3D project" starts on page 62.

I think the reason VMS and Vegas Pro can't burn a "real" Blu-ray 3D disc is probably a licensing issue. I think for a short time both programs allowed burning a 3D Blu-ray, then it was retracted in an update. (I'm not 100% positive about this, and the "licensing issue" reason is purely speculation on my part.)

Let us know if this works out for you.

Tim

Davesm wrote on 4/19/2012, 6:44 AM

Thanks for the Quickstart guide refs., Tim. I had already seen these via the Help Topics in VMS and it is what lead to my confusion in the first place (!)

Interestingly, I have since successfully created a 3D DVD disc using VMS 11.0, using Side by side (half), and it does show the 3D effect on my Sony 3D TV. So this is one option but not the preferred higher quality and greater capacity option of Blu-ray.

Your speculation regarding the "licensing issue" is also interesting and if correct I hope Sony Creative Software can overcome it for future upgrades/releases. Why shouldn't we be able to exploit the full potential of the TD20 & create a 3D Blu-ray disc of our home movies?

crunchy wrote on 4/22/2012, 3:08 PM

Of course you can make full 3D BluRay with Movie Studio HD Platinum (not only squeezed side-by-side). However, it can be done only WITHOUT any menu system. So, you can only make BluRay 3D image which you can later on burn from Movie Studio (burn image option).

The resulting BluRay 3D starts immediately playing your video and 3D player/TV recognizes it automatically as 3D BluRay. The resolution is entire 1920x1080 per eye.

Be carful to choose the highest (I think it's 35Mbps) quality option.

If you add markers (key M) inside your video you'll add chapter points in your BluRay 3D.

kunze wrote on 10/1/2014, 11:06 PM

i cannot get it to burn to a blu ray disc, only render.
is there somewhere where the steps are laid out?
thank you,
g

kunze wrote on 10/2/2014, 5:19 PM

am waiting to hear from sony tech people, but they say i should be able to make 3d blurays.
sent them a snapshot of workflow, they are helping to fibure out why it wont go to burner.