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     Larry Elie Rating: N/A |
OK, I have good working 3D system with my shutterglasses on both my monitor and small Sony rear-projection at home. Here's the problem. I am running a small, free theater as part of a Church Youth ministry. I have a 3500+ lumen Proxima 9270 LCD projector with a long throw lens filling a 27' x 13.5' non-oriented screen. This isn't at all compatible with shutterglasses, even if I could afford 100 sets. Most films I show are DVD's. I have licensing to show these in public for free with some stipulations. Because of interest in Spy Kids 3D and Shrek 3D, I'm planning on a mini-3D festival using those 2 films as a starting point. The problem is, most of my 3D material is done the right way, with shutterglasses. I would like to take some of my shutterglasses films and convert to Anaglyphs for my 'theater' showing. I have made a lot of my own DVD's, and have both Premere and Media Studio Pro. As far as I can tell, NEITHER can work field wise, only as full frames. I need to extract the right and left fields somehow, then build the 3D. I'm planning on fall of this year, but need to start working on this now. Does anyone know of any free or cheap tools that can do the conversion? I would even settle for pseudo 3D for some short clips, but the tools have to make anaglyphs as the cost of the glasses would kill me for anything else. Suggestions? | ||
| Larry Elie Rating: N/A |
A follow-up on my above post. Since this will be after all a Church ministry, I would love to show the only Christian 3D movie ever made as well; "Man in the 4th Dimension" a Billy Graham short made for Expo 68. I called World Wide Pictures who made it, and they don't have any idea what happened to the prints. I'm assuming they were 16 mm (which isn't a problem; I can do 16mm) but I don't know if it was polarized or red/blue, and have no idea who might have squirreled away the last prints. Any thoughts? | ||
| GregK Rating: N/A |
Hi Larry, Have you considered Peter Wimmer's Stereoscopic Player PC freeware? http://mitglied.lycos.de/stereo3d/ I installed this software up for a friend of mine who has a LCD projector, so now he can play any field-sequential DVD and the software converts the video to anaglyph on-the-fly. There are a few rare DVDs that I needed to reauthor but the vast majority of the discs I've tried works great with this program! | ||
| Larry Elie Rating: N/A |
Thanks Greg, it looks like a winner. | ||
| Larry Elie Rating: N/A |
PS, the movie above should have been; "Man in the 5th Dimension" for the '64 World's Fair. | ||
| GregK Rating: N/A |
If you ever find out a lead on "Man in the 5th Dimension" Larry, please PM and let me know, as I would love to check that out as well. It wouldn't surprise me if that film hasn't been seen in the last 40 years. | ||
| Randy Treadway Rating: N/A |
I am not aware of a 3-D version of Man in the 5th Dimension- it certainly was not shown that way at the 1964-65 World's Fair. It WAS innovative, however. It was shot in Todd-AO 70mm and shown on a huge curved recessed screen in a 400-seat special theater built for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. About 11 prints were made- sadly all are assumed lost. HOWEVER, quite a few 16mm prints were also made for showing in churches in the years right after the World's Fair, and these are available from time to time on sources like eBay. |
