Sick of making BORING two dimensional movies? Watch this episode to learn how to shoot and edit 3D video and even build a rig just for 3D movie making.

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Indy Mogul presents today’s episode of Four Minute Film School in 3D. To take full advantage you can pick up pair of 3D glasses and watch until the end to find out how you can win a pair of 3D glasses signed by a member of the Indy Mogul crew. Start the clock in 3D. [Music Playing] Stereoscopic or 3D cinematography takes advantage of the fact that we have two eyes. You can use 3D glasses that have red in the left eye and blue or more specifically cyan in the right eye. You can also just make them yourself, if you can find some colored transparency in those colors. These two cameras are going to mimic what my eyes are supposedly seeing. The distance between the center of your two lenses should be about 2.5 inches but it is best to experiment yourself and find what works best for you and your cameras. You can not get them close enough together on two separate tripods and they will not fit on one tripod or do they? Let us go to the BFX workshop for a little segment I like to call “two cameras, one tripod.” So, Steve came to me asking me make a plate form that have two cameras side by side facing in the same direction. So, I just took a piece of scrap wood, drilled some quarter inch holes to it at various distances running bolts through that go unto the tripod mound at the button of your camera and just like on a turbo mini jib. Drill the five-sixteenth holes here counter board through a T knot. So that whole thing can go on top of a tripod. Now, once you have your rig you can shoot some test footage and bring it in your editing program. Now, drop your left camera footage in the bottom video track of your time line and the right on top. You saturate both clips which is fancy talk for make them black and white. And while on the right video, go to modify, mode and select add. Then go to video effects, color balance, and add the RGB balance effect. For your right video, turn the red all the way down, and for your left video turn the blue and the cyan all the way down, render, and you now have 3D video Female: Erick, why are you crying? Eric: Because I do not have enough quick tips. Female: How can you get more quick tips? Eric: I do not know. [Music Playing] Now, we were so excited about how easy this was to do it yourself. And, we have been spending the last week practicing with mathematics to get the best shots possible. And, I can not even remember last time I was this excited about mathematics except when I had a geometry class back in freshman years sitting behind the most beautiful girl in the entire school. But, that was not really the math that got me excited. Now, beside school subjects, we also tried throwing this 3D effect in some of our older projects, experimenting with crazy new ideas. And here the coolest and/or most important shots and tips we came across. Use a clap board or smack your hand in front of the camera for sinking purposes. 15 to 25 feet is the ideal for distance between your actor and camera. You can go larger for the difference between your actor and background. But, too far will ruin the effect. If your actor is too close, this will also ruin the effect. But some careful movement of the layers can save a lot of mistakes. My two favorite shot center office and on the subway, the difference between the support and the back wall and the window in the building best shows the 3D effect. This title that we use in the beginning of the episode is just two layers of the same file, with one moved over to the left a little bit, dimming at the left video and then the respective effects from before at it. Then Eric had the wacky idea of putting that 3D title over 3D video for what I like to call, 3D Square. This can also be done with green screen footage on top for 3D effect with out two cameras. Alright guys, you have been patient. Time to tell you how to get your 3D glasses. Anybody that is a new subscriber to our youtube channel between today which is Friday, April 11 and next Friday April the 18th is eligible to win one of a hundred price packs, which includes the 3D glasses, hand numbered and hand sign by member of the Indy Mogul team and an Indy Mogul sticker. Visit www.indymogul.com for more details. Just remember subscribe on youtube this week and you could win.