How To Shoot Your Own Stereoscopic Footage

How To Shoot Your Own Stereoscopic Footage

on Sep 23rd 2010 with 15 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and a couple Cameras
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Run Time: 6:23 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Today I will be teaching you guys a quick little tutorial on how to create 3D videos with the use of After Effects! The tutorial is very simple itself and you will be able to start creating 3D videos on your own in no time.

This tutorial will cover the method of filming that I used as well as another method and the editing technique used for 3D videos. Creating this effect isn’t just exclusive to After Effects and the “3d Glasses” plug-in. I use a principle here in AE that you can use and put to work with any other editing program. Creating this effect really takes a lot of experimenting and playing around with the camera angles and distance and lining up the clips in editing. Fool around and find what works best for you. Enjoy!

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  • Nordh

    You can also use the Set Channel effect instead of curves. Set red channel to none for one layer, and green and blue to non for the other layer. That way you don’t have to click around in tabs as much in the effects menu. I find it to be a bit easier to overview with that. The end result is obviously the same, and I doubt there’s any difference in processing power.

    It would have been nice if you could cover how to use side-to-side footage instead of Anaglyph. With the youtube3D plugin, it’s a lot more powerful as Youtube converts to all kinds of different 3D modes on the fly, plus if you want to use stereoscopic 3D at cinemas or other commercial stuff, anaglyph is probably not the way to go.

  • Gaandu

    And what is the use of this effects????????

  • gunter

    but this is Anaglyph 3D, does anyone knows a tut to make the new 3D seen on cinemas these days, i dont really know the name for it :s

  • brandon

    i am working on a featured 3d film. the left eye is slightly angled inward. this is a nicer effect than just str8 on. also play with mirrors to give you the right distance between cameras.

  • frankyframe

    dont you have to rotate the secound camera?

  • Ralph

    This is genius. So cool. I never would have thought of that. Great tutorial short and sweet

  • Brad

    This isn’t true 3d though. Just like many other videos I watched, I have 2 pair of 3d glasses in a drawer on my desk. One that is the red and blue kinda, and one that is the flat black kind. Whenever I put either of them on, NOTHING in the video changes whatsoever (even if i turn the red and blue ones upside down like many suggest). So it may look like it’s 3d, but it’s actually not 3d, which kind of makes me wonder what is the point of posting a tutorial? sorry to sound like a pessimist, but I get tired of seeing every other website post how to make 3d when none of them are actually 3d.

    • Jorrit Schulte

      Maybe you have some weird glasses, i have the cheapest red/blue glasses i could find and as soon as i removed my eyepatch, it worked fine for me ;)

  • girish

    i want to do sterescopic 3d movie in after effects. i dont want anaglyph method ( Red, cyana)
    please tell me how to create stereoscopic video

  • Grey

    cool effect, wish i had 3D glasses…

  • http://www.draw-art.ru kvins

    now i go create own avatar movie 3-d=)