Do not miss the opportunity to see the 1st serious documentary in the cinema shot in stereoscopic 3D. A film about choreographer / dancer Pina Bausch made by german director Wim Wenders.
It is a wonderful example of a film where 3D really adds to the experience and was used very skilful.
SMPTE Expo and Conference in Sydney, 16-22 July, Sydney Convention Centre
SMPTE’s biennial Conference and Exhibition is the pre-eminent event for suppliers, technologists and content creators in the motion-imaging, sound and broadcast industries in the Australasian region. Maintain your competitive edge through exposure to the latest technologies, workflows and creative tools; and through ideas, key trends and case studies in the Conference programme.
Check it out, registration for the expo is free and conference participation as a student is cheap.
If you get your act together you could submit your short film to this festival.
Deadline 31st of october, submission is free and they do have a category called “alternative content”. Only problem is they expect the submission in the so called Digital Cinema Package format (DCP). To create such a 3D DCP you need specialised tools or the festival does it for you (cost involved).
There are free tools available though:
great tool, clever concept and good fun
Interesting research.
KDDI R&D Laboratories has developed the world’s first technology for synthesizing and displaying 3D video of stadium sports in real time, from any angle chosen by the viewer. This technology was exhibited at CEATEC JAPAN 2010.
Youtube link
General 3D announced a web-based 3D stereoscopic system to stream 3D stereoscopic videos using only a browser. This new system uses the HTML5 and WebGL standards being built into Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari (you need to use the latest beat versions for WebGL).
Great technology, being able to play HD stereoscopic movies in your browser with on the fly image processing dome in the GPU.
An interesting and odd machine at the same time. Technically not a 3D camcorder, but a three CMOS standard HD camera with 3D lens attachment. It does 60p, meaning 60 frames per second progressive (none interlaced) which is great. Would work for a slow motion sequence. A 35mm wide lens (35mm film camera equivalent) is nice, but this is probably less then half that with the 3D lens attached..
I don’t think there are any controls for interaxial distance, maybe some convergence adjustment. Interaxial of the 3D conversion lens seems to be very small, maybe 20-30mm, don’t think there is actually a beamsplitter involved to increase the stereo base. More like a macro stereo lens really. An average scene form 1.5 – 3m should result in some binocular disparity and depth. No depth at more then 4-5m is my guess.
For the wedding or birthday video in 3D could be ok, but not for the stereoscopic enthusiast.
Should be plug and play with a panasonic 3D TV, using the camera native side by side format. The lens must be aspherical to keep the 16:9 aspect ratio of the image.
Also note, a stereoscopic lens attachment halfs the horizontal resolution (960 from 1920)
