Try this.
I’ll talk about how to make this into a red/cyan anaglyph (for red/cyan glasses) in my next vid.
I know how to do it on a PC with StereoMovie Maker freeware and/or VirtualDub freeware, but I can   more...also show how to do it with Adobe After Effects (PC or Mac).  less

Calling all stereoscopic 3D vloggers. It’s time to communicate. My calendar says it’s 2007…
To see this video in 3D, you need to wear red/cyan 3D anaglyph glasses with the red lens over the left eye.

After viewing RogerMaddy's LIVEVIDEO about making a 3D moving using a single sliding camera, I though I would try this technique to footage I have already taken. The sliding camera is on a much larger   more...scale because it is basically me on a zip line. Although this is not true 3D, by shifting the frames and stereo base slightly I did get some more depth, which really helps contrast the rider even more. Hopefully I'll get more time to shoot similar footage in true 3D to show more of the landscape.  less

This video is in 3D. To see it in 3D, wear red/cyan anaglyph glasses with the red lens over the left eye.

This is a real short, low rez, low frame rate example (you can render high rez images), but I figured   more...out how to (somewhat) easily make animated stereoscopic 3D scenes with Google SketchUp software (I’m using the freeware version).

1. Install Google SketchUp, then download a model.

2. Open the model in SketchUp and create an animation. Save the animation project file, then save an exact, duplicate copy of that same project file, with a different file name.

3. Open both “saved” animations in separate SketchUp windows, resized on your monitor, placed side-by-side, either as a parallel pair or crossed pair (you’ll have to figure out how to view them stereoscopically, e.g. with a stereoscope or free-viewed.)

4. Open the first frame of each scene that you created in the animation (one at a time) and shift the camera in one window by panning _exactly_ left or right (horizontally) until the amount of depth is desired for that frame. When finished, "Update Scene". Since there are no guidelines in the SketchUp GUI, I open a separate program that can be used as an overlay (placed in “always on top” mode), squeeze the program to the minimum height possible, and use the top or bottom edges of that program as “guides”, e.g. IrfanView freeware works perfectly for this purpose.

When you are finished, if your panning was perfectly parallel (horizontal), you should end up a separate left and right perspective animation with interpolated frames with an animated stereo base. Since the cameras were “pointed parallel”, you will need to shift the parallax (”set the stereo window”) in post with something like StereoMovie Maker.
I fudged with my video and used Adobe After Effects to create an animated, floating stereo window, but that’s just my personal preference (for reducing ghosting and window edge violations). I also try to keep the amount of depth “below optimum” to reduce anaglyph ghosting. Since my anaglyph internet videos are typically viewed with a small viewing FOV, the depth is exaggerated a bit, which helps the stereoscopic effect, in that case.  less

This is my video response to "Be A Tyrant (Competition)".

This video is in 3D.

I've got a long list of things I do in "three's". Am I all alone on this one?
(I know... tonight is a full moon.)

3D
3 Kites
3 Wives (just kidding ;-)
Etc.

Lately, I've decided to rejuvenate my three   more...main passions in life... kites, music and 3D. Why three? I have no idea...

I just made this video, tonight, showing my stereoscopic 3D video rig. I know I've made a video or two about this before, but here's another one, if anyone is interested.

I think I'll make a video, next, about "PC Freeware I Can't Live Without For 3D Capture/Editing", but after that I'd like to make a video or two about a quad-line kite idea and a music idea...
I guess this means I need to dust off the sewing machine and buy some new mandolin strings :-).
I'll get back to stereoscopy ASAP after that.  less

The Goal of Existence is to understand Existence.

Journey to the Unmanifested - a unique series of audio-visual meditation sessions - Created by Techno surrealist CG Artist Andrei Bannikov and sound designer/composer   more...Boris Zuev. “Breath Of The Universe” is an eye-popping psychedelic expression of alternate realities - something that only exists in the mental plane.  less

This movie is in 3D. To see it in 3D, wear red/cyan anaglyph glasses with the red lens over the left eye.

Check out my new quad-line kite flying rig.

Created with Google SketchUp.

The very last part of this animation is in 3D (when you see Janice and I acting suspicious in the glider cockpit). To see that last part in 3D, wear red/cyan anaglyph glasses with the red lens over the   more...left eye during that segment.

Here’s how I try to get an “optimum” amount of stereoscopic 3D depth in every image.
Watch the animation a few times, and hopefully you will understand the simple concept.
Compose the shot by visualizing the final frame of the image, and the far left and right edges of that frame.
Locate the nearest and farthest visible points in that stereoscopic frame. This includes _any_ point that is visible, anywhere, i.e. on the ground close to the camera, in the sky, far, far away, etc. Anything that is visible has to be included… _anything_.
Imagine the frame (that same final frame of the image) being located at the same exact depth as the _nearest_ point. That frame is divided into 30 equal, horizontal segments.
The left and right camera viewpoints are horizontally displaced (shifted) exactly one of those equal segments (1/30th of the frame width) apart… end of story. It can’t get much simpler than that… but…
This is actually “reverse engineering”, but don’t worry… it is easier to do than it sounds.
You can set this up any way you want… by changing the stereo base (the distance between the left and right lenses) of the stereoscopic camera… or by moving closer or farther from the near point… or by changing the focal length and the field of view… or by excluding the most distance object, etc… however you get the job done will work…
Visualizing what is going on before you shoot the scene is the tricky part, but keep practicing, and you will eventually be able to do this very quickly. If you can come up with a visual aide or two, that helps, e.g. I have a piece of paper with a vertical black bar down the center that shows me what “1/30th of the frame width” looks like…
BTW, that final frame (the “stereo window”) can be shifted, later, forward or back in the depth of the scene, but that initial frame is what defines the total amount of depth (”stereoscopic deviation”), i.e. the distance from the nearest visible point to the farthest visible point in the entire scene.

Created with Google SketchUp.
Composited with Adobe After Effects.
Video by Roger Maddy.  less

This is in 3D. To see it in 3D, wear red/cyan anaglyph glasses with the red lens over the left eye.

I grabbed a few things and I'm leavin' town.
I've got a sleeping bag, backpack, mandolin... that's about   more...it...
Watch the video.

Created with Google Sketchup and Adobe After Effects.
Video by Roger Maddy.  less

This video is in 3D. To see it in 3D, wear red-cyan anaglyph glasses
with the red lens over the left eye.
Topic: Tips for good macro (close up) stereoscopic photography and imaging

Hopefully, I will get better and better at this, but this video shows the two most important things, IMO, for making good 3D anaglyph videos for LiveVideo or other Flash video sites.
The first thing to   more...do is minimize the depth. It only takes a little bit to get the job done. An "optimum" amount is actually a lot less than most people probably realize, anyway, and "a little too much" will absolutely kill your videos when you try to compress them.
The other most important thing to do is properly set your screen parallax to a point that works the best. If done "incorrectly", the compression can make the video unwatchable.
Keep in mind that you have to compress your video to begin with for video sites like LiveVideo, so that the file size is small enough for you to be able to upload, and then the video site will again compress that video to Flash. This double-whammie of compression will guarantee that a "poorly designed" anaglyph will be totally destroyed in the process. Only the most carefully designed anaglyphs will survive.

This video is in 3D.  less

This is my video response to The Value of Video Comments.

This video is in 3D.

Here's my video introduction to the PC freeware that I use for capturing and manipulating stereoscopic 3D video.
I can't live without them, and you probably can't either.
Trust me on this one. ;-)
The programs:
  more...<a href="http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stvmkr/index.html">StereoMovie Maker</a>
<a href="http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stvply/index.html">StereoMovie Player</a>
<a href="http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=GraphEdit">GraphEdit</a>
<a href="http://virtualdub.org/">VirtualDub</a>
<a href="http://avisynth.org/">AviSynth</a>  less

I found that Youtube 3D function very interesting. All the images were shot with Samsung WB1000 in movie shooting mode.

I just love the way it turned out :)
For those of you who aren't able to see the   more...clip in 3D with 3D glasses, try to put green on the left eye and red on the right eye, or the other way around then it should work nicely.

It's pretty amazing steroscopic image can be made with such a compact digital camera. I'm utterly surprised!!

Enjoy :)  less

This is in 3D. To see it in 3D, wear red/cyan anaglyph glasses with the red lens over the left eye.
I finally managed to climb out of the balsa glider and get new strings on my mandolin.
Check out my new   more...ride.
Yes, I really do all my own stunts.  less

This video is in 3D. To see it in 3D, wear red/cyan anaglyph glasses with the red lens over the left eye.

Getting set up for some macro (close up) stereoscopic 3D video, using two standard camcorders,   more...side-by-side.
Got any 2 inches wide, 1 1/2 inches deep subject matter?  less

This is my attempt at explaining how to set up and execute the "Depth of Field/Circle of Confusion an Indicator of Optimum Deviation?" experiment that I talked about in my text post:
http://www.puppetkites.net/blog/archives/30
  more...The vertical black bar and the text ("Some Text") are printed on both sides of the paper, so people can see what I am looking at.
Obviously, you need to go through the experiment to see what I am seeing, but everyone will get very, very close to the same results, that is if you are a human being with two eyes, hairy armpits, stinky breath, blond hair, with high heels on... etc... you know the drill ;-).  less

Here is a video showing and explaining the visual difference between "perfectly" synced stereoscopic 3D video and field sequential 3D video with a 1/60th of a second time-offset between fields.
  more...
This video is in 3D.  less

Any type of camcorders can be used for shooting stereoscopic 3D, but to go a good job, you really need to monitor the sync. Here's how I do it, using a <a href="http://www.ledametrix.com/lcdsync/">Sync   more...Shepherd</a>.

This video is in 3D.  less

Why do strange things happen when there is a full moon?

This video is in 3D.

I hear, quite often, that people would make video comments and responses if it was a "one click" process, i.e. easy to do.
Making videos really isn't that difficult.
Are people telling the whole   more...truth? Are they being honest with themselves or others?
What are the real reasons that people won't make video comments or responses?
What about people in general, i.e. not "videobloggers"? Why won't the average "John or Jane Doe" make talking head videos? That was really my main question (or should have been)... not whether or not a videoblogger would make a video comment or response, but why *most* people won't make talking head videos, at all.
What are the "real" reasons for this?
I'm convinced the reasons are based more in "fear", not technological issues, e.g. "it is difficult to do, because of problems with the camera or computer, etc."
What are people afraid of?

This video is in 3D.  less

Here's my coolest pair of 3D glasses, and the brief story behind them. Let's see your coolest pair, and hear a little bit about them... I know I probably don't have the very coolest pair...
As I show   more...in the vid, I got these "very cool looking" red/blue glasses in a book called "Visual Foolery" from Waldenbooks in a shopping mall, but you really should try and find a very cool pair of red/cyan glasses, not red/blue. The colors on a computer monitor will look "more natural".
A Google search for "free 3d glasses" should give you plenty of options for places to get a free pair of red/cyan glasses in the mail.

This video is in 3D.  less

I've been applying overlay masks for stereoscopic movies for a few years
with Adobe After Effects (they can also be created in AE), but just figured out how to apply them with <a href="http://avisynth.org/">AviSynth</a>.   more...This gives you complete independent control over the imagery alignment _and_ the masks, which can provide many more options for manipulating the stereo window edges.
Someone who knows AviSynth better than I do might be able to provide a script that can animate the masks.
You can create the masks in Photoshop or with <a href="http://gimp.org/">GIMP</a> freeware.

Here are the scripts. It takes three of them (unless someone knows how to combine them). You change the information in the first two, then open the third one in <a href="http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stvmkr/index.html">StereoMovie Maker</a> or <a href="http://virtualdub.org/">VirtualDub</a>:

1) Script for applying mask to the left perspective movie clip. Save this as a separate AVS file (e.g, "leftmask.avs"):

clip1 = AviSource("C:\left.avi").Crop(0,0,-0,-0).AddBorders(0,0,0,0)
clip2 = ImageSource("C:\featheredblackmask.bmp")
Overlay(clip1,clip2,-14,-5,mode="darken")

2) Script for applying mask to the right perspective movie clip. Save this as a separate AVS file (e.g, "rightmask.avs"):

clip1 = AviSource("C:\right.avi").Crop(0,0,-0,-0).AddBorders(0,0,0,0)
clip2 = ImageSource("C:\featheredblackmask.bmp")
Overlay(clip1,clip2,-6,-5,mode="darken")

3) Script for combining both left and right movie scripts (1 and 2) into a parallel, side-by-side movie for importing into StereoMovie Maker or VirtualDub:

left= Import("C:\leftmask.avs")
right= Import("C:\rightmask.avs")
StackHorizontal(left, right)  less