About 3D editing

karihamalainen wrote on 11/8/2012, 3:09 AM

Hello,
I am planning to buy a computer for 3d-videoediting.
My camcorder is Sony HDR-TD10E 3D Camcorder, my TV is Sony KDL-55HX855 Led-3D TV and I have Sony TDG-BR750 active glasses to watch the 3D movies played on Sony BDP-S480 BluRay player.

I edit my home movies with MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus version 18 software and my plan is to burn the edited movies on BluRay -discs.

What kind of Monitor and Graphic Card I need when editing ? Are the active glasses necessery or can I use passive glasses ?

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john-auvil wrote on 11/8/2012, 9:55 AM

Thats a really good question... one I unfortunately do not know. I think for the graphics card it will not matter much, other than having one with an abundance of integrated resources.

I personally haven't created any 3D project other than anaglyph. I am hoping this thread picks up more traction as I would be interested in the results myself.

johnebaker wrote on 11/9/2012, 5:19 PM

It is a very good question that I have been trying to resolve on and off for nearly a year now.

I too have a Sony 3D TV and BD player with the active glasses and so far I have hit a brick wall in getting my own 3D BD discs to play correctly in anything other than Anaglyph format. Problem solved- I was assuming the TV would auto detect 3D side by side - it does not - you have to set it manually using the TV remote control Options button, 3D Menu. - however this has introduced another issue when watching satellite 3D TV - I cannot change channels on the receiver (seperate remote) until I switch back to normal viewing on the TV !!!!

Anaglyph is the easiest to do - you need the red/blue static glasses - you should have a basic pair with the software which you can use on any computer monitor - I would recommend having a 22" monitor at least.

The same glasses are required for viewing the Anaglyph 3D movie on TV, you can also export as AVCHD and play directly on the TV from memory stick or external hard drive plugged directly into the TV or stream from your computer if you have networked the TV. I successfully stream AVCHD files to my TV over my 150N wifi network.

I have analysed some commercial 3D movies I have and they use the Multi View Coding (MVC) codec.

The MVC option (left and right images are interleaved in the video) for burning to BD is not an available option for in MX (18) and is not possible due to licensing restrictions in Video Pro X.

Note the MVC codec has to be purchased and AFAICS it is for decoding only in MX.

If you want to work with active glasses then you need a graphics card which supports active 3D glasses eg NVidia, although this is not strictly necessary as you can do everything in Anaglyph and then export in one of the available 3D formats eg one of the Side by side options.

HTH

John