Cape Denison, Antarctica - Stereoscopic 3D Test (2007/2011)

A test of some stereoscopic footage I shot in Cape Denison, Antarctica in 2007, during a small blizzard.

We see Mawson's Huts (built during 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition) and the Transit Hut, used for astronomical observations.

This was shot with a dual-camera rig (Canon HV20s.) It's pretty hard to keep the lens clean in this circumstance (it was bitterly cold!), so there are some screen artefacts. But not too bad. No colour grading has occurred - just image alignment.

I have tested this footage on a Panasonic Viera 3D Stereoscopic Plasma TV (TH-P50VT20A), playing simply in QuickTime Player Pro on a Mac Pro, via a long HDMI 1.4a cable. All that's necessary is to 'present movie' under QuickTime player, choose the TV screen, and then set the TV into 3D stereo mode, using the 'Side by Side' setting - and lo and behold, stereoscopic 3D.

Much easier than faffing around with the NVIDIA 3D vision kit & 3DTV play under Windows running on Bootcamp - though that does work too. But what a pain to set up. This is much simpler and the video looks surprisingly good, given that it is not frame-sequential, so that you end up with only half horizontal resolution (effectively 960x1080).

It works on the Panasonic in stereoscopic 'side by side' display, from YouTube, when using an Apple TV. VieraCast seems to disable the stereoscopic display.

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