Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects and 3d Software.
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Run Time: About 10 min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In this tutorial, you’ll find everything you need to make a Stereoscopic 3D Video, I’ll explain how to make a 3D video with real camera footage or with 3D software (3Ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D…)
Tutorial
Step 1
Open 3Ds max or any 3D software.
Step 2
Make a scenario (of your choice)
Step 3
Add a nice lighting:
go to "Lights" select Skylight.
Step 4
Select "Skylight" and go to "Modify"
Step 5
Select "Cast Shadows" in the skylight parameters (That’s all for the lighting).
Step 6
Add a "Free Camera" or a "Target Camera".
Step 7
Put the camera in the desired position.
Step 8
Duplicate the camera (the two cameras make you sence the profundity)
Step 9
Adjust the cameras.
Step 10
Name the cameras "Left_Camera" and "Right_Camera" (So, you can’t get confused).
Step 11
Link the "Right_Camera" to the "Left_Camera"
Step 12
Animate your "Left_Camera" or your scenario, depends on what you want to animate.
Step 13
Go to "Render Setup"
Step 14
Select "Active Time Segment" or "Range"
(Active Time segment: Render all frames
Range: render to a particular frame)
Step 15
make sure to render with the "Left_Camera"
Step 16
Save the video where you want it.
Step 17
Name the video "Left_Camera"
AVI file
Step 18
Hit "Render"
Step 19
Now, render with the "Right_Camera" and change the name of the video to "Right_Camera"
And RENDER.
Step 20
Check your videos ("Left_Camera" and "Right_Camera")
Step 21
After Effects:
Make a new composition and Import the Videos ("Left_Camera" and "Right_Camera")
Step 22
Make a new solid (Doesn’t matter the color of the solid)
Step 23
Select the solid and go to Effect > Perspective > 3D Glasses.
Step 24
In the "Left view" select the "Left_Camera" video
and in the "Right view" select "Right_Camera" .
Step 25
Now select "Red Blue LR" and don’t forget to play with the settings.
Enjoy your 3D video!
You can apply this "Two Cameras" technique, in the real life with two cameras.
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nice tut dude…….but please tell me ,is there any way to do the same thing but in real footage (not 3d scene)…..thangs again
If you are talking about 2Dto 3D conversion of footage in After Effects viewable via anaglyph (red-cyan) glasses yes that is possible to some extent depending on the type of shot. We have been experimenting with converting parts of a feature film we produced into 3D. For more information on the technique check this great site: http://www.enhanced-dimensions.com
Regarding the above tutorial, it is a good simple introduction, but the 3D effect is quite limited. Check the above site for some good examples of how to really create good 3D in AE. I also recommend checking out Chris Keller’s AE stereo script here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckvvAj108V0&feature=related
We will shortly be releasing our showreel in 3D using many of the techniques in the links above, plus our own experimentation.
actually u cant.but,you can fake it…
Yes you can, in this tutorial I make a 3D scene and I create 2 cameras, one representing the right eye and another left, so you can buy two cameras, record with them, got to “after effects”, and follow the tutorial.
you are right “goran”
but ,what if i have only one footage from one camera
i was talking about faking it to look like a real 3d scene. but, its not
Good Basic Intro to 3D. Additional details like distance between the cameras, different types of 3d, types of glasses etc will be helpful.
really nice intro for stereo type 3d stuff, but definitely should have been explained in depth. right now, it’s kinda floating above the horizon.
If I used 2 cameras in real life and they were very different in quality what would happen?
Thanks
Chris — you’d have to make them look exactly the same (apart from the disparity between the eyes). This is one of the biggest issues with filming for stereo — a tonne of time was spent on Avatar, Tron, Resident Evil, etc. to first correct the footage from the two cameras to look the same (as far as colour quality, lens distortion, grain and more) to make them the same, before they can move on to making it work for stereo.
Long story short — start with two of same camera. You’ll still have issues, but less than you would otherwise.
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
What about parralax, distance control between cameras, and so much other things…
With this technique, you will have a lot of ghost images.
But for a beginning, why not !
While this is probably a good ‘basic’ intro, the footage really doesn’t lend itself to stereo very well. It’s too fast, it’s rotating, you uploaded to YouTube so quality is crap… flying down a hallway/3d road would have been much more effective at showing this — anyone looking to do this tutorial, consider something like that, where perspective is so much more important.
Or at least show a range of depth; a long lens, things closer to the camera as well as further away, etc.
Also also, the two cameras should, ideally, point to the same place. What you’ve got going on is ‘parallel’ (think IMAX 3d conversion) vs ‘convergent’ (think anything filmed in 3d); produces a much cleaner, truer-to-life result. Think about your eyes; when you focus on something, one eye isn’t staring at and the other eye staring blankly beside it, they’re both focused on the item in question. This is what you want to reproduce in 3d.
Aaand you should probably mention that while it is converted to stereo, you need to preview it in anaglyph (red/cyan) as most people don’t have stereoscopic monitors.
I’ll stop now.
Ahhh AE is very hard…I’m trying to make a music video as a first project…using tutsplus to get started but it’s really difficult :p
Nice effect. Thanks Goran.
Does anyone have any idea how to use something like this to make something fly out at the viewer? Like in the movies when you use these glasses.
That would be awesome to do that!
is this feature available in after effects cs3???????
of course it is available
Aktually, the main prob while filming in 3d with multiple cameras comes during editing.. it’s extremely hard to sync the shots of the 2 cameras… otherwise, the cameras’ functionings shud be linked sumhow..
if it is possible, then it’ll be a lot more easier to make 3d movies….