Related themes: Record your first own 3D movie, Convert your 2D movies to the 3D ones
Don't miss: an article How to record a 3D movie and how to upload it to YouTube, video-tutorial: How to create a 3D video/3D movie.
3D movie can be - using special methods - created even from a 2D movie as well. More about it you can read in this article. On the next lines you can read about how to create a real full-fledged 3D movie – using 2 recorders (for example 2 movie cameras).
To record a 3D movie you should keep the same guidelines as for taking of 3D photos.
Both recorders (for example movie cameras) should be directed to the same direction and should be near to each other - in a distance which is appropriate to 1/30 of the distance of the nearest recorded subject. (You can read more about the rules in this article ).If you use one or two still cameras then they have to be able to take movies and it must be possible to convert the 2 movies (taken from the left side and from the right side) to the same framerate. If you use movie cameras then there is no such problem - the framerate is standardized there.
How to do it
We will use the Virtual Dub software - you can download it here (you can find the link on our download page as well - on this page we update the link if necessary). We will use this software to convert our movie to BMP pictures.
Open your left video file (open video file) and save to a directory as an image sequence (save image sequence – choose BMP and Minimum number of digits in name choose in the way to have all image file names of the same length – if you for example convert 4 200 frames of your movie then choose Minimum number... to 4). Then do the same for your right movie.
Now open in the 3DJournal software first frame of the left movie and first frame of your right movie and create first 3D image. Use corrections as necessary. And save it.
Now choose Extra function of the 3DJournal software and in the section movie/animation/batch set the number of frames of your movie to be converted to 3D. Check the names of image files (for example vid3d0001.bmp for Save). And press button Start processing. Wait until the images are processed.
And now the last step: In the Virtual Dub software convert the 3D images back to a movie. Use item: Open video file – and open your first 3D image. Then Save as AVI. And your 3D movie is finished.
