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This is totally non-commercial, using freeware. I am doing this purely out of passion. I spent over 12 hours yesterday going through all the tests to figure it out, then today I have put it into action. The conversion is as easy as pouring milk on Cocoa Puffs. The results look identical to shutterglasses. Page-flipping, of course, will always produce the best results, but that's true for both interlaced anaglyphs and shutterglasses videos (field sequential 3D :-) Sit down when you read this ;-) I can't get this to _not_ work, now ;-) I just did the conversion to interlaced anaglyph to a commercial interlaced DVD... the conversion is simple... but first, read this... Interlaced anaglyph DVD (shade corrected, half color, of course ;-) playback seems to be working on everything, with almost perfect results, with near-shutterglasses quality. I just played it from a DVD player and ran it via S-Video to my TV card on my old computer. Listen to this... if you use the "force bob" option, you can resize it to any resolution! How's that for weird? If you use "force weave", you have to treat it just like an interlaced 3D DVD (for shutterglasses), i.e., you have to play it at the original resolution on a computer CRT. (I still don't know about LCD or other non-CRT types, yet). Since I can't get this to _not_ work, I'm thinking it's going to work on any kind of system. It works great from a DVD-Rom, using Power DVD, and the same thing holds true as above with a TV card... use "force bob" and you can resize it to any resolution. Now, using an existing interlaced DVD has it's drawbacks... since it's already a lossy MPEG format, you are recompressing it again when you go through this conversion, so starting with an uncompressed original would be ideal. But, at least this does work. For DVD conversion, loading the DVD into VirtualDubMPEG2 is probably the easiest solution (www.google.com for link). You can load it directly from the original DVD. Then just apply the interlaced RGB filters, and take some time to play with the additional hue and color equalizer filters that are in listed in the parallel conversion on this page: http://www.puppetkites.net/virtualdub3d.htm Don't forget... you have to substitute these steps for steps #3 and #4 on the VirtualDub3D page, above. If you mess this up, you'll think I'm crazy if you try to look at the DVD: When you apply the "Interlaced RGB" filter, instead of choosing "Clone R" in the even lines and "Clone G and B" in the odd lines, you choose "Cancel G and B" in the even lines, and "Cancel R" in the odd lines. That's all there is to it. Remember also to put a check in the "interlaced" box in the resize filter when you resize the video. Also, be sure to make a compliant interlaced DVD. Some DVD authoring programs seem to be deinterlacing videos! Ugh! I do know for sure that TMPGEnc in combination with Ulead DVD Factory 2 and TMPGEnc DVD Author works, and I also know that Nero 6's Nero Vision Express 2 _does not_ work, because it deinterlaces the video! -- P. K. Kid 3D Adventures Of The Puppet Kite Kid: (All G-Rated) http://www.PuppetKites.net |
