How To Shoot Your Own Stereoscopic Footage
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects and a couple Cameras
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Run Time: 6:23 min
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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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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.
And what is the use of this effects????????
gaandu, i’m surprised you didn’t hear of 3D yet, look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopic_3d
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
If you want to make a 3D movie like you see on cinemas, you’ll need to have either shutter-glasses and a display (or tv http://www.samsung.com/us/article/everything-3d-guide–explore-the-wonder) that is able to sync with these shutter-glasses
or you need polarized glasses and a polarized display or tv (like this one http://pro.jvc.com/pro/microsite/3d/monitor/index.html)
Hey thanks for the heads up but these links are down, these guys need some ht.access rewrites going down… anyways, does anyboady know more about this newer 3d technhology?
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.
dont you have to rotate the secound camera?
This is genius. So cool. I never would have thought of that. Great tutorial short and sweet
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.
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 ;)
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
I’m pretty sure you would position the cameras the same as in this tutorial but instead of overlaying the videos on red & green channels you would put them side-by-side.
You could probably use this tutorial for photoshop as a reference and use your two video files instead of 2 slightly different images…
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tutorials-effects/how-to-create-a-stereoscopic-image-for-crossed-eye-image-viewing/
Search youtube and you will see how they have done it…
Like this video for example…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBa-bCxsZDk
cool effect, wish i had 3D glasses…
now i go create own avatar movie 3-d=)