3D video and LCD shutter glasses

Skywalker wrote on 5/16/2009, 2:54 AM
dear friends,
I would like to make a 3D video to look with LCD shutter glasses on PC, I am able to create 2 video files from a 3D Motion project (one video for every eye), but I do not know how mix them on Vegas to make a 3D stereoscopic video. Please would you explain it? Has Vegas this capacity?
Thank you very much

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farss wrote on 5/16/2009, 3:40 AM
I have a pair of the LCD glasses that someone gave me. Never even tried them as it only works with a CRT. The polarising systems seem to be the current go and it should be pretty easy (relatively speaking) to roll your own monitor. All you need is two LCD screens with a polarising filter on each at 90deg and half silvered mirror at 45deg to combine the two images.

To get your polarising system to work I think you need to create an interlaced video with one field for each eye. Don't think you can do this directly. You could export an image sequence, one for each eye. Then rename the files so that say the left eye images are all odd numbered and the right eye all even number. The idea would be that the sequential file numbers are left,right,left,right etc eye. You bring these back into say a 50p project then render to 50i. each field should come from alternate frames, job done. The renumbering coule be easily done with a bit of VB code etc.

If you need any more help let me know. I know a local Vegas user whose been heavily into 3D. He uses a commercial product for doing the 3D merging to WMV. I don't think it works with the shuttered glasses though.

Bob.
richard-courtney wrote on 5/16/2009, 7:24 AM
reald.com describe their process and the glasses are circularly polarized.

The shutter is on the projector. I'd love to experiment with this technology.
They do say the frame rate is 3 times normal. The glasses being circular
polarized can be tilted while wearing without affecting the image.

Cool stuff.