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Attaching Mattes to Stereo 3D Clips

If you have left- and right-eye mattes that need to be attached to stereo clips, the process

works identically to importing mattes for regular clips, except that when you’ve selected a

stereo 3D clip in the Media Pool, you have two matte import commands, “Add As Left Eye

Matte,” and “Add As Right Eye Matte.”

Organizing and Grading

Stereo 3D Dailies

A common workflow is the creation of digital dailies within DaVinci Resolve before editing in an

NLE. This provides the editors, director, and producers with the advantage of having more

attractive media to work with, that’s also more comfortable to view if handled with the automatic

geometry and color-matching functions that match the media of each pair of shots together for

a preliminary left- and right-eye balance. The resulting Timelines can then be output to

whichever media format is most convenient to use.

Step 1—Create 3D Stereo Clips

The very first step in the process of creating dailies is to import all of the left-eye and right-eye

media into individually organized bins, and to then link them together to create stereo 3D clips,

as described in the previous section.

Step 2—Edit the New Stereo Clips Into One or More

Timelines for Grading

Now that you’ve created a set of Stereo 3D clips, you’re ready to edit them into one or more

Timelines for grading. You can do this by simply creating a new Timeline and deselect the

Empty Timeline checkbox. A new Timeline will be created with the stereo 3D clips you created.

Step 3—Align Your Media

For the stereoscopic effect to work without causing headaches, it’s critical that both eyes are

aligned. This can be tricky to adjust using manual controls, but is something that can be

automatically analyzed. You can perform stereo 3D alignment to a single clip using the Stereo

3D Palette controls, or you can select a range of clips to align all of them automatically at once.

There are two methods of alignment; which is more appropriate depends on the type of

geometry issues you have to address.

 Transform Alignment: Analyzes the image and makes vertical and rotational

adjustments to line up the left- and right-eye images as closely as possible.

 Vertical Skew: Analyzes the images and makes a vertical-only adjustment to line up the

left- and right-eye images.

Controls for aligning the left- and right-eye media

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