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Capturing Side by Side Footage

You can capture side by side footage and create a stereoscopic clip.

To capture side by side material as a stereo clip:

1. Open Input Clip.
2. From the Input Type box, select Dual Image - Slice.
3. Capture the clip.

   This creates a single clip with a stereo track, with the material half the horizontal resolution of the original footage. The left half of the footage is the Left eye, and the right half of the track is the Right eye.

To capture side by side material as a stereo clip and resize it to full resolution:

1. Open Input Clip.
2. From the Input Type box, select Dual Image - Scale.
3. Optional: In the Eng menu (Engineering menu), set the Dual Image Resizing Filter.

   The filters go from Triangle (low quality) to Lanczos (high quality). The default is Lanczos, but if there are dropped frames during capture, you will need to use a lower quality filter to get perfect capture.

4. Capture the clip.

   This creates a single clip with a stereo track, with the material resized to the full horizontal resolution of the original footage. The left half of the footage is the Left eye, and the right half of the track is the Right eye.

NoteIf you intend to output back to tape side by side stereoscopic material, then consider using the Dual Image - Slice option, therefor working on an image half the horizontal resolution of the target output. Using the Dual Image - Scale introduces resize artefacts that get magnified by the Real-Time Deliverables Dual-Image - Scale option, which will also apply a resize filter to resize each stereoscopic track to half the horizontal resolution.

EDL Capture of Side by Side Footage

If you import an EDL referencing stereoscopic footage recorded as side by side images, and if you use the Dual Image - Slice option in the EDL Import module, the events might not relink to the captured material; this requires you to set a custom resolution.

To set a custom resolution for the captured material in the EDL module:

1. Open the Assembly Options menu.
2. Enable Override Project Res.
3. Set the actual resolution of the captured stereoscopic clip.

   Set the Width to half the horizontal resolution of your project; leave the Height to the full resolution.