Edit in Vegas Pro with Nvidia 3D Vision

chet-hedden wrote on 2/3/2013, 12:41 PM
What I am trying to do:

I use two camcorders to shoot HD video (1080i). I want to use Vegas Pro 12 to edit and burn 3D movies to Blu-ray disc using the material I have shot. I note that many people claim they have done this and I have studied all the manuals, help files, videos, and webinars I can find and have followed the instructions given. I have corresponded with Sony technical support. I have installed the latest update. All without success.

My camcorders produce MTS (AVCHD) files. I have converted these to AVI, as well as Cineform MTS and Cineform 3D (multiplexed) AVI files and imported each of these file types into Vegas Pro following the instructions found in the videos, tutorials, manuals, etc.

My system uses an Nvidia Quadro 4000 card with an Alienware AW310 monitor to display 3D material using Nvidia 3D Vision (emitter plus glasses). I have no problem viewing BD 3D (commercial) discs and viewing and editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 in 3D. The machine is Win 7, 64-bit, Intel i7 processor with 24GB of memory.

I have set up Vegas Pro as instructed (Options/Preferences/Preview Device/Windows Graphics Card/Left and Right). Yet, Vegas Pro does not display the imported files (MTS, AVI, Cineform AVI, Cineform 3D AVI) material in 3D with Nvidia 3D Vision.

According to the information I have found, selecting left and right tracks (left eye on top) and right-clicking one of the tracks brings up a requester containing a selection “Pair as Stereoscopic 3D Subclips.” Selecting that is supposed to display the material in the Preview Window and External Monitor in 3D. However, the “pair as stereoscopic 3D subclips” item is always GHOSTED, regardless of what file types I am using.

Attached are two screen shots. One shows the ghosted requester with left and right MTS files on the timeline and one shows the ghosted requester with a Cineform AVI 3D file on the timeline. As you can see, the option to “pair as stereoscopic 3D subclips” is unavailable in both cases.

If you can explain what I am doing wrong, not doing, or should be doing, I will be forever in your debt!

(Oops. I thought there was a way to include attachments, but I guess not. I can send them separately to anyone interested.)

Comments

Wolfgang S. wrote on 2/4/2013, 9:27 AM
Have you set the project properties to 3D? Take whatever mode you want - but it must be a 3D mode. Without that, the pairing of the two streams will not work.

It would not be necessary to convert the files to avi, you can also work with native avchd files.

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chet-hedden wrote on 3/22/2018, 12:25 PM

I want to display the VP Preview Window in 3D on a TV. A TV with active shutter technology does not work , despite the claim to the contrary in the VP manual (help), so I want to know if a TV with passive technology (polarization) will work.