NVIDIA Optix

At this week’s SIGGRAPH convention in Vancouver, Adobe and NVIDIA are giving a technology presentation of ray-traced extruded text and shapes inside a “motion graphics environment” (you can read for yourself what the menu bar says; before getting too excited, note this is a technology prototype and not an announced or released product). Obviously, there are a lot of questions left unanswered at this point in time - but as we’ve seen in the past, a lot of other Adobe technology demos eventually become products; fingers crossed that this is the case here.

NAB 2011:  GoPro Rides The 3D Wave

When I caught up with GoPro, their booth was more like one of the casinos rather than a trade show booth. There was a multitude of screens, a GoPro van and even a race car.

NAB 2011 - Stereo 3D

If you’re gonna shoot S3D, why not watch S3D? Dual PMW-F3s on a mirror rig.

I’m a Chauncey Gardner when it comes to 3D: I like to watch. But as long as stereo 3D requires a bulky mirror rig, or a data cart like the one below, watching is all I’m likely to do. Fortunately, NAB shows that I’m not the only one who feels that way: there were plenty of [somewhat more] practical solutions for shooting stereo.

NAB 2011 Video - Panasonic’s second-generation 3D Camcorder

Steve Cooperman of Panasonic describes the 1/3” 3MOS AG-3DP1 3D P2 camcorder. It should be available later this year, but pricing has not been announced.

900x506 QuickTime movie, 1 Mbit/sec h.264, 12 Mbytes.

Stereoscopic 3D in After Effects CS5.5

You may remember our blog post on the “inherent” problems with stereoscopic 3D that famed film editor Walter Murch pointed out in an open letter to film critic Roger Ebert. We took Murch’s comments as inspiration to explore workflows in the latest release of After Effects that might work around some of Murch’s concerns: Namely, getting the eyes and brain to converge and focus on the same object (preferably one the same distance from the viewer as the screen).

NAB 2011:  MIO 3D Shows a New Way to Shoot 3D

Mio 3D is a company founded by illustrious Director of Photography Sean Fairburn. He created a innovative new way of shooting 3D imagery, one that utilizes three different cameras instead of just two cameras.

NAB 2011:  Redrock’s New Micro 3D Rig

3D is rapidly becoming a standard rather than a speciality. With the advent of new cameras and new techniques, 3D has now become a viable option for those on a tighter budget. Brian Valente at Redrock Micro has the perfect solution: the Micro 3d Rig.

NAB 2011:  DasRekorder Rekords Das 3D

At NAB 2011 this past week, we ran across DasRekorder, a German based company who had a cool little device that allows for mobile 3D recording.

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