Stereoscopic depth of field and codec questions

[tammo]

Hi!
I am currently working on a stereoscopic animation and have some questions.

Do you still use DOF or is that wrong if your eyes can adjust to a real depth in a stereoscopic movie?
I have seen Avatar but i cant remember how they handled that.

Another problem is the codec.
The movie has to be in highres side by side configuration.
So i have to deal with a resolution like 3460 * 1050 pixel.

Every codec that i tried gave an error, except for uncompressed AVI which is to slow for the player to handle.
Quicktime is also not readable by the stereoscopic player or i could have simply used an image sequence container like PhotoJPG.

[R2J2]

Hi!
Do you still use DOF or is that wrong if your eyes can adjust to a real depth in a stereoscopic movie?
I have seen Avatar but i cant remember how they handled that.

your right that your eye is supposed to adjust but if filmed there could still be DOF, I would suggest a little for really far away, just what helps sell the image.

have you tried the h264 codec? there are a bunch of cards out now that will hardware decode, I think :P

[vlado]

I have seen Avatar but i cant remember how they handled that.

There was DOF everywhere. It was a bit annoying as you couldn't focus on anything other than the parts the film makers thought important...

Best regards,
Vlado

[MasterBercon]

IMO you should use DOF because 3D screens are still flat. There is no real depth so your eyes wont 'create' any DOF.