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Coursedesign wrote on 1/11/2009, 9:10 AM
Adobe Premiere Pro.

With help from Cineform 4K ($1500), Premiere Pro can even do Real Time editing.

In Vegas, you'd have to edit L & R separately and then assemble in After Effects or equivalent (I think there are some open source tools that can do this also).

dbritta1 wrote on 1/11/2009, 9:59 AM
Which open source tools?

I really need to increase the Vegas project and rendering size limits.
I know how to write Vegas scripts, can it be done by script?
Are there registry settings or ini files that can be changed?
Coursedesign wrote on 1/11/2009, 10:28 AM
I don't think there is any way to increase Vegas resolution limits, those are likely to be totally hardcoded.

What's your presentation device to present the 3D?

Most presentation devices use square pixels, and that means that to get the best quality you really should switch to 3840x1080 with square pixels (PAR 1.0) before doing anything to the video.

To work in Vegas, you could just keep the L& R channels separate, render each to 1920x1080 at PAR 1.0 before doing anything else to the video, then pick one channel to edit, do the work, render the output, save the .veg file and then apply the .veg to the other channel.

In Hollywood, they have the advantage of being able to monitor in 3D, and their compositing tools understand 3D.

The open source tools such as Avisynth can do just about anything, but never with ease. Major complexity.

For ease, it would probably be better for you to buy an old, cheap version of After Effects just for the simple task of combining,

What is the output format for your presentation? Is it really 2 camera frames side-by-side in one projection frame?

TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/11/2009, 11:39 AM
I need to render 2880x1080 (3D 1080p) output,

You sure you don't need normal HD? All the 3D stuff I've seen out now uses normal resolutions @ 120hz (or 120p/240i in vegas I would think)
Massimo Rossi wrote on 1/14/2009, 7:52 AM
With Vegas 8.1 you can set your project resolution up to 4096 x 4096 pixels !!!

If you can install 8.1 on your machine, this could be the solution. However, remember that 8.1 doesn't support 32 bit third-part plugins and codecs.

Hi.
Coursedesign wrote on 1/14/2009, 8:27 AM
With Vegas 8.1 you can set your project resolution up to 4096 x 4096 pixels !!!

like.no.other.

Especially when it comes to telling users and prospective customers about major new features.

This begs the question of whether the filters, etc. in Vegas 8.1 all support 4K resolution, or if this is just a placeholder feature for V8.2.

Robert W wrote on 1/14/2009, 11:49 AM
I thought that it was in the release notes for 8.1? I don't have them to hand.

EDIT:

No, it seems it wasn't after all.
dbritta1 wrote on 1/14/2009, 3:46 PM
Vegas 8.1 does support 2880x1080 projects, 8.0c does not!
You must create a custom template to render greater than 2048.
In the custom setting dialog select the video tab.
Then set "Image Size:" to (Keep Original Size)
This worked for "Format:" Windows Media Video V9 Advanced Fornat
Have not tried other Renderers to see if they support large formats.

Dennis