I edited this music video (in 3D) in southern California in October during 3 sleepless days to get it delivered to Sony Pictures in time. You can view it in true 3D right now if you go see it play in theaters before Arthur Christmas. Even if you’re not a Bieber fan, check out the excellent urban dancing from many members of The LXD!
The music video was filmed on two RED Epic 5k cameras and we used Cineform’s 3D codec to edit the muxed files in 3D using Final Cut Pro 7 and a Blackmagic output box, viewing the stereoscopic picture on a passive 3D 1080p monitor (we wore 3D glasses).
The video is directed by Charles Oliver, who directed many episodes of The LXD. The director of photography was Alice Brooks (also the DP of The LXD) and it was produced by Kyle Sonia (also of the LXD family).
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Please tell em you didn’t have to wear the 3D glasses the entire time you were editing. You could edit with just one of the pictures, right?
Well, yes and no:
We only wore glasses when we needed to view it on the 3D screen, which was maybe 20-30% of the time.
My initial plan was to almost never wear them, but I quickly learned that if the final output is a 3D image (especially if it’s on a 40-foot movie theater wall), most of the reviewing and polished editing has to take place in 3D. Some elements worked better in 2D than in 3D, and vice versa. Usable shots in 2D looked awful in 3D, and 3D technical errors (like reverse-muxing when the Epic rig was upside down in low-mode) went unnoticed in 2D but broke the 3D picture completely.