I have been experimenting with 3D photography a long time now, and already have two blogs on the subject:
Cross Eyed Anaglyphs and Phantograms
I am now getting into 3D video, and so it's time to start a new blog documenting my research and discoveries.
The blog title VIDEO3D was already taken(it is unfortunately one of the numerous aborted one day blogs), so I had to make it VIDEO-3D.
I developed "Lux Somnia: Light Dreams", the last closing show for the Alys Stephens Center at UAB in Birmingham, Alabama, in cooperation with Theresa, Jessica, Adam, and a group of local Artist Friends. The core of the show was an Architectural Projection mapped to the building. It gave an illusion of 3D, but was only 2D.
If the show is to be repeated next year, we need to do better, and one of the way to achieve this is to show real 3D. For practical and economical reasons, it will have to be anaglyph 3D, using either Red/Cyan, Red/Green, or Amber/Blue cardboard glasses.
I know very well how to do Photo Anaglyphs, as demonstrated on my previous blog devoted to the subject, I can do 3D Animation in After Effects. Actually the new version of After Effects CC adds to CS6 some of the 3D functions that were removed from CS5.5, and incorporates a 3D plugin by Maxon called Cinema 4D Lite that opens up a whole world of possibilities(albeit at the price of a steep learning curve).
But real live 3D video opens up a real Pandora's Box/Can of Worms...! Serious 3D is still in it's infancy, especially in the ProSumer market. The few 3D camcorders have different formats and Codecs, and there isn't much out there in terms of software to edit these in 3D, especially on the Mac Platform. The key is to have a way to control the 3D window and the convergence point(meaning choosing where in space the 3D image appears, in front, behind the window frame, or anywhere in between).
In order to follow me through the journey I undertake, you will have to get a pair of plain paper Red/Cyan Anaglyph glasses:
Cross Eyed Anaglyphs and Phantograms
I am now getting into 3D video, and so it's time to start a new blog documenting my research and discoveries.
The blog title VIDEO3D was already taken(it is unfortunately one of the numerous aborted one day blogs), so I had to make it VIDEO-3D.
I developed "Lux Somnia: Light Dreams", the last closing show for the Alys Stephens Center at UAB in Birmingham, Alabama, in cooperation with Theresa, Jessica, Adam, and a group of local Artist Friends. The core of the show was an Architectural Projection mapped to the building. It gave an illusion of 3D, but was only 2D.
If the show is to be repeated next year, we need to do better, and one of the way to achieve this is to show real 3D. For practical and economical reasons, it will have to be anaglyph 3D, using either Red/Cyan, Red/Green, or Amber/Blue cardboard glasses.
I know very well how to do Photo Anaglyphs, as demonstrated on my previous blog devoted to the subject, I can do 3D Animation in After Effects. Actually the new version of After Effects CC adds to CS6 some of the 3D functions that were removed from CS5.5, and incorporates a 3D plugin by Maxon called Cinema 4D Lite that opens up a whole world of possibilities(albeit at the price of a steep learning curve).
But real live 3D video opens up a real Pandora's Box/Can of Worms...! Serious 3D is still in it's infancy, especially in the ProSumer market. The few 3D camcorders have different formats and Codecs, and there isn't much out there in terms of software to edit these in 3D, especially on the Mac Platform. The key is to have a way to control the 3D window and the convergence point(meaning choosing where in space the 3D image appears, in front, behind the window frame, or anywhere in between).
In order to follow me through the journey I undertake, you will have to get a pair of plain paper Red/Cyan Anaglyph glasses:
DO NOT splurge for the nicer plastic ones, even the best don't work as well as the cardboard ones, and the worse are truly awful.
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