stereoscopic for flame

[Adrien.Servadio]

Hello,
In my company, we will have a big stereoscopic movie soon.
We are on flame 2010 and we will get the 2011 upgrade the next year (normaly with stereoscopic tools).

I am not used with stereoscopic, I hope there is experemented people on this forum to help me to know how we need to work with flame.
– What is the best workflow ?
– Is there a dedicated image format?

PS: sorry for my english, i need to work on it

[amit Dang]

I would recommend taking the FXPHD course in stereo this term. 😀 That being said you don’t need a special software to do stereo comp work. The basics are building two comps one for each eye, using expressions and instances to make sure blurs and color corrections are consistent on both and you can add a channel operator at any point in the comp to see it in anaglyph 3D just to check your work. The channel node should swap the left eye red channel with the right eyes red channel and discard the green and blue from the left.

Left(R)+Right(G)+Right(B)=3D

As far as image format, no. Generally you will write out Left and Right images in whatever format you need. If you doing film work and you have Cineons, you write them back out for filmout. If you doing TV and have 8 bit video, you save back Targas or whatever.

Of course there are so many other things to cover but that is beyond the scope of a single forum post.

[pixelmonk]

“and we will get the 2011 upgrade the next year (normaly with stereoscopic tools).”
Do you know something we don’t.

[Henning Westerwelle]

Thanks for the answer

I am wondering about the image analyse. To interprete reality to stereoscopic, done with traditional 35mm video camera. We are looking for tools who are doing this for XSI, houdini and more especially for flame (other if there is a good solution).

“Do you know something we don’t.”
I have take this information from our flame resseler in France, they are looking for more information(because they don’t have the beta version yet) but normaly they will add stereoscopic tools in 2011’s version.

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

2011 release will prolly have a stereo workflow 😉

[pixelmonk]

God help us!!

[claudio antonelli]

you might be able to do something nifty with the Furnace Z-Depth interpolation plugin to get 3d out of a 2d image… (the plugin analyzes the motion in a scene and builds up a z-depth map, which in theory could be used w/ displacements and projectors to make a 3d version of a shot.)

The only software I know of with serious stereoscopic capabilities is Nuke’s Ocula. I haven’t used it personally, but it seems to be the most robust solution.

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

ocula ROCKS..tried it a few months back..was very impressed with the garbage mask and tracking translation from left to right…wonder if theres a way to use the motion analysis info to generate that l-r disparity info on flame and apply that to any axis/mask/node

[amit Dang]

Ocula is tightly integrated into the way Nuke uses multiview image streams. Disparity maps could be exported for Flame but it wouldn’t know what to do with them. Ocula is such a good toolset its worth the investment for a seat of Nuke. No reason to try to everything in a single app.

[Henning Westerwelle]

thanks, i will look in this way

[David Stewart]

there is a simple stereoscopic demo and downloadable batch file on the area.

Just do a search for stereoscpic under flame.

[CG Rokr]

i cant seem to find it can you help me ??? please

[David Stewart]

@dnrfilms 29027 wrote:

i cant seem to find it can you help me ??? please

it appears you need to search for stereoscopy, not stereoscopic.

here is the link:

http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/stereoscopy_in_flame

enjoy 🙂

[CG Rokr]

thanks dude

[Henning Westerwelle]

I must apologize for what I said about the 2011 version of flame. This was only a rumor that I took for a certainty. I’m sorry

Actually, i’m testing occula at home, it seem to me that is a really good solution for the moment 😀

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