OFFHOLLYWOOD rolls on world's first 4.5K 3D feature!

[Mark L. Pederson]

Frankly, (no offense) I've found that 3D viewing on set for anybody other that the stereographer can sometimes be a detrimental. It tends to slow things down because "people" tend to huddle around. It distracts people from thier jobs and most importantly sooner or later makes everyone think they are a 3D expert and sooner or later making the stereographers job much harder! hehe....

Is your stereographer pulling IO & convergence?

[Mark L. Pederson]

Mark its great to hear that things are going so well with our rig!! Congrats!

Well ... all the work and support from you guys at ET made it all happen. Yesterday they shot 1/2 of the day on steadicam with the NEUTRON prototype.

[Tony Lorentzen]

Well ... all the work and support from you guys at ET made it all happen. Yesterday they shot 1/2 of the day on steadicam with the NEUTRON prototype.

Was the operator okay?

[Stefan Christou]

Congrats on what look like a fun feature.

Excuse my ignorance but what are these things with the coils on them?

[Mark L. Pederson]

Was the operator okay?

The "big rig" you see in the pics with the REDs is the QUASAR rig from ET.

The ET NEUTRON is a small rig that we fly with SI2K mini-cameras - for steadicam and hand-held.

ET is building a rig called PULSAR - which will be slightly larger than the NEUTRON - but much smaller than the QUASAR - for use with the EPICs.

The NEUTRON in the photo is a prototype and when on steadicam there is wireless motor control for IO.

[Tony Lorentzen]

Nice! Thanks for the thorough explanation Mark!

[Doug Horton]

excited to see how things begin to flesh out, please update with stills when possible!

[Disco Legend Zeke]

just a thought...

If you need a quick way to view 2-camera 3-D, just use 2 monitors and learn to CROSS-VIEW.

alternate, use two viewfinders, one for each eye.

the cross viewing method was (is?) used at teaching hospitals where stereo camera rigs are attached to stereo microscopes.

when i first saw the blue/red glasses i sort of panicked, thinking you were shooting for blue red anaglyph projection *shudder* but soon i realized its just for on-set viewing.

[Joey R.]

Here is a link I've been sending to folks until we go ahead and create our own page:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/erker/freeview.html

[Pedro Guimaraes]

just a thought...

If you need a quick way to view 2-camera 3-D, just use 2 monitors and learn to CROSS-VIEW.

Well while that's true, unfortunately on a beamsplitter we cannot do that because the reflective camera's image is flipped and the last time I checked we still cannot flip the image on the RED LCD.

When we shoot parallel I freeview since the images are not flipped. It is a useful skill to develop.