On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:12:12 -0500, "Dave Whitney" wrote:

>You rock!
>Youretheman!

>>Well, here it is...! ;-)
>>3-D TV --- IT WORKS, IT WORKS!!!
>>A couple of days ago I rigged two VX-1000's together
>>with a few inches of separation between them (with .5X
>>WA converters on the lenses, and the zooms at the short
>>end - using a "clicker" to synch the two tapes at each
>>scene-change/camera-startup). I shot about 18 minutes
>>of material on a local street, and in a Cornell
>>arboretum/herb-garden (then my back gave out, holding
>>those two camcorders up, ending the experiment...;-).
>>I set up a test in Premiere 4.2 with a split screen
>>(cropping the two images to side-by-side verticals),
>>which turned out to be quite easy. Tonight I made a
>>quick test with a few seconds of material, looped it,
>>and sent it out to tape.
>>It worked fine on both a 13" TV, and a 27" TV (viewed
>>at about 6'), using a finger or cupped hands to establish
>>the crossed-eye stereo image (see my web page for still
>>3-D images, and the methods for viewing...).
>>I just did the first test run of a piece a couple of
>>minutes long. It works quite well, though you get a
>>rather slim-cropped vertical image to look at... But,
>>I T W O R K S ! ! ! S - T - E - R - E - O T - V !!!
>>It turned out to be easier to set up on the computer
>>than I expected, and it needs no fussing around with
>>image centers changing with distance (it would be
>>better if I did adjust the cropping/positioning for
>>this, but without doing it the apparent picture width
>>changes to accommodate...).
>>Hmmmm, B&W infrared video, stereo video..., what else
>>shall I try.....? (B&W IR stereo video...? ;-)
>>David Ruether

Well, 5-hours of computer-processing time later, I have
9 minutes of stereo video, but a hitch has developed, alas...
The tall vertical images work fine with middle-to-long
distant subjects (and the occasional pass-through of fairly
near subjects), but the frame width visually changes with
the nearness of the subject, and very near subjects cause
the apparent frame width to narrow to almost nothing.
Redirecting the wide-angle equipped cameras inward would
help (as would moving the cropping for near subjects),
but this would introduce perspective/fusing problems
(and reduce the "pop-out" aspect of near features...).
So, back to the drawing boards, with either a letter-box
format with double-squares, or a wide-letterbox format
with the full stereo frames shown. I will try both soon...