P3D Re: 3D Video manipulation on computer

[Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>One inexpensive solution to converting stereo-video to prints is to buy
WinTV ($79 or less) or a similar card & program that has video inputs on
the card. Feed the shots into your computer and capture the image (WinTV
comes with capture software). You can then edit it in your favorite
graphics program and print it out. Be sure and shoot a high shutter speed
on the videocam, as movement in frames looks "funky".<

If we are talking about alternate field video here (which I think was the
original idea) there are a couple of hitches which add to the budget. If
you capture an alternate-field image, the left and right pictures will be
interlaced--i.e. placed on alternating rows of pixels. Not just any
"favorite graphics program" can handle this format. The newly updated
Stereo Image Factory can (relatively inexpensive at around $70), and so can
Photoshop (not quite second-mortgage time, but getting close), but most
other graphics software packages won't be able to initially separate the
two images.


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