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Step 4—Grading Stereo Media
Grade the clips in the Timeline as you would any other digital dailies, with the sole addition of
using the controls in the Stereo 3D palette to control monitoring and manage the adjustments
made to each eye as necessary. As when creating any other kind of dailies, you can use LUTs,
the Timeline Grade, and individual clip grading to make whatever adjustments are necessary to
create useful media for editing.
Grading Windows
If you’re using windows, The Color group of the General Options panel of the Project Settings
has a checkbox called “Apply stereoscopic convergence to windows and effects” that correctly
maintains the position of a window that’s been properly placed over each eye when
convergence is adjusted.
You must turn on a checkbox in the Project Settings
to enable stereo convergence for windows
When this option is enabled, the Window palette displays an additional Transform parameter,
“Convergence,” that lets you create properly aligned convergence for a window placed onto a
stereoscopic 3D clip.
The Convergence control in the Transform
section of the Window palette
After placing a window over a feature within the image while monitoring one eye, you can
enable Stereo output in the Stereo 3D palette and use the Pan and Convergence controls to
make sure that window is properly stereo-aligned over the same feature in both eyes. At that
point, adjusting the Convergence control in the Stereo 3D palette correctly maintains the
position of the window within the grade of each eye.
A convergence-adjusted window in stereo
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