User Manual

Stereoscopic Workflows
Creating a stereo 3D project is a multi-step process that benefits from careful media
organization. This chapter covers how to set up for working on stereoscopic projects, how to
import stereoscopic projects, and how to export stereoscopic media.
First, stereoscopic pairs of clips, i.e., the individual left- and right-eye media files, are imported
into the Media Pool, organized, and then linked together using the “Stereo 3D Sync” command
to create a new set of linked stereo clips. Then, these clips stereo clips can be either edited or
conformed to imported project data using a single Timeline. DaVinci Resolve lets you manage
left- and right-eye grades and sizing in the Color page using the controls found in the shortcut
menu of the Thumbnail timeline, and in the Stereo 3D palette.
If you’re using stereoscopic CineForm media, which contains muxed left-eye and right-eye
image data that can be decoded by DaVinci Resolve, you still need to go through this process,
although you’ll be using duplicate clips to populate Left and Right folders with matching
sets of clips.
Hardware Requirements for
Working in Stereo 3D
With DaVinci Resolve on Mac systems, dual 4:2:2 Y’CbCr stereoscopic video streams are output
via SDI from a compatible Blackmagic Design video interface. You can select either
Side-by-Side or Line Mesh output to be fed to your stereo 3D-capable display, depending on its
compatibility. Alternately, if you turn on the “Enable Dual SDI 3D Monitoring” checkbox in the
Video Monitoring group of the Master Settings panel of the Project Settings, your compatible
Blackmagic Design video interface outputs full resolution 4:2:2 Y’CbCr for each eye to
compatible displays.
When setting up a 3D-capable DaVinci Resolve workstation, keep in mind that the dual video
streams of 3D projects make greater demands on disk bandwidth, media decoding via your
workstation’s CPU, and effects processing via your workstation’s available GPU cards.
Setting Up to Display Stereo 3D via SDI
All DaVinci Resolve systems can output a side-by-side frame-compatible signal that can be
viewed on a stereo 3D-capable display via a single SDI connection, output from a DeckLink
HDExtreme card or better. For higher-quality monitoring, two SDI signals can be used to output
the left-eye and right-eye images separately at full resolution using one of the following
Blackmagic Design video interfaces:
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DeckLink HD Extreme 3D+
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DeckLink 4K Extreme
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DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G
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DeckLink 8K Pro
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UltraStudio 4K
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UltraStudio 4K Extreme
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UltraStudio 4K Extreme 3
Very old legacy systems accomplish this via NVIDIA dual SDI monitoring outputs.
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