v.01 Stereoscopic Play

Posted by on Feb 20, 2012 in v.01 | No Comments

Playing with v.01 exhibition at QUAD Gallery in Derby. Get your 3D specs on and select 3D mode to see the machine in all its cubist mechanical glory.

Robbie Newman, Aron Brown and Jennifer Stewart are playing the machine.

This was filmed on a Fujifilm W1 camera in low light levels, so apologies for the low quality footage. This was actually my first time editing live captured stereoscopic footage together from the W1 and realising just how complex the process is. I didn’t really give much thought to the filming itself as it was filmed in the morning following the closing event and finding food was of a higher priority. It’s basically clawed together from desperate clips basically documenting all the parts of the main exhibit. The cuts are really awkward and the S3D is painful at times, yet this took around 9 hours to put together. To do this I had to figure out how to extract the two video channels (seriously time consuming) from the W1 avi’s and figure out the convoluted workflow from After Effects Pinkau stereoscopic scripts into StereoPhotoMaker and back for alignment. Actually it also took ages to align and replace the audio with the original files and mix them together better as the audio from the camera was pretty bad, and replacing it allowed me to let it flow over and cover up some of the terrible editing.

The main purpose was just to capture the exhibit in a very basic 3D and figure out the live-action stereoscopic workflow. I think it actually has turned out pretty good as long as you watch it at it’s natively low resolution.

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