How this tutorial feels like: Lift up your left leg! Great! Now move your left leg forward! Nice! Put down your left leg! Awesome! Now lift up your right left! Cool! Move your right left forward! Amazing! Now put it down! Congratulations now you know how to walk! Great vid though
Lots of useful info. My take on it is that a 2D to '3D' movie isn't really possible, but to have the illusion of stereoscopic images, all you can do is start one of the video screens a few frames before the other one. I make 3D photos and I realised something: if you pan your camera when taking a video, frames 1 and 4 (give or take) will likely be Stereoscopic (3D). If I was to try and make a 3D-ish movie from a 2D one, I'd just load the same movie into premier elements 2 times, delete the audio from one track, and advance one movie by about 4 frames. The eye can't tell the difference, the audio stays with the unaltered video and in certain scenes you'll think it's 3D. It's a lot quicker
Quicker yes, but the result isn't as consistent. To be honest this whole process is more of a novelty to play around with (which I find super fun haha) and can't compare to ripping a 3D movie like in my other vid. That's very cool about frame 1 + 4, makes perfect sense as stereoscopic images are essentially just 2 slightly offset and sometimes warped variations of each other presented at the same time separately to each eye. Nice tip/trick!
Hey, thanks for the vid, still a top result after all this time. So I tried it out and everything works as you said. The 3d is pretty odd (compared to a real3d) and it's hard for me to watch. So just curious if paid products produce a better, more watchable result? If so, what's a good one for it? Thanks
I see myself using this some in the future. 3D blurays have begun to decline sadly. A few movies in particular are hard to find in 3D depending on the regions. For US regions, I can't find Thor: Ragnarok. I just went to Best Buy last week and they told me they are not getting RP1 in 3D. So it's around $50 on amazon. I'll probably have to buy that one, but one day when I just can't get them anymore or I am not willing to pay, this is definitely my solution. Thanks again for showing us. Seems similar to the last method with a few differences.
Yeah this method is cool but it's a much lesser effect than the 3D Blu-ray rips. I hope VR can catch up fast enough and show everyone how good 3D movies are in VR before 3D movies disappear altogether. 3D TV's were never gonna cut it but in VR it's fucking great. Just picked up Tron Legacy after your recommendation, it's on my GO and gonna watch in about an hour. Psyched!
@Cory C I wholeheartedly disagree. I'd rather lower res in VR than 3D tv faux depth. Each to their own I guess. If you prefer resolution then 3D tv could be better for you but that point alone is beginning less and less relevant
i know what You mean , i feel so sad they are not really making 3d tvs anymore :( everything is 4k. i have 4k and i am not impressed unless it is a really nice movie like Martian,otherwise if i were able to i would trade 4k for 3d Blue ray Letterbox any day
Same. I'm concerned that as VR headset resolution gets better, this great tech for watching 3D movies will be held back by the fact that there won't be any 3D movies.. Hopefully VR can get that segment of the home market some life, but it'll need to move quick
Finally got around to your video converting series and it was well worth my time. Now I can finish what George Lucas started and convert the entire 6 film Star Wars saga into 3D. :D
Haha yeah. With this one in particular I'd say trial a smaller clip first as the results aren't exactly mind blowing. I mean, it def works and it's cool but I found that this one is more suited to things like home videos etc... Or cartoons even
I tried this exact process and made a 5 minute '3d' video conversion . The result was mid compared to what other 3d movies i watched using vr glasses. There's not much depth but some frames does have little 3d effect. But the process was quick and easy to follow. Just cant expect too much with the result though.
why isnt there just software that will just put copy of whats playing to the side so its just SBS easy? Without having to render a movie and go thru all the processes of ripping and rendering. Takes half a day just to do 1 video that might not be great. I seen a Desktop SBS app I tried but it doesn't work quite right.
It seems to delay the one half a frame to get the 3d from what I can tell so far, Makes it look kind of bad on motion and cuts which is i think you said. That being said tho I did Robocop and so far it's pretty sweet so thanks. I was going to try to convert some timelapses or something over
Yeh that's basically what it does. Things like RoboCop and stuff would be pretty decent, glad you got good results. I definitely wouldn't watch Transformers the movie with it though! Was tough enough at IMAX 3D
Awesome! Will have to try this script to turn racing drone footage into 180 degree youtube videos in 3D. Probably even crazier to experience than those VR rollercoasters.
These instructions were amazing, and very thorough. This did *technically* work, but you were not kidding. I tested it by using a music video. Whenever there was any dance movement or quick moving colored lights it became really disorienting and eyes could see a bit of "double" vision on the things that were moving. Unfortunately, I couldn't enjoy the video this way. :(
Thanks for the video. Very interesting. This is similar to the Pulfrich effect. If you put a dark neutral lens over one eye and watch TV you will notice a 3D effect whenever there is lateral movement horizontally (e.g left to right or right to left). I used to do it as a kid watching TV ! The effect collapses on still images. The Pulfrich effect is similar to electronically delaying one of the eye image frames but uses the biological latency of the human eye on darker images to create a similar effect so your visual cortex receives the darker image after the other eye which has the brighter image. If you can change the brightness on only one eye watching a 2D VR image it should also create the Pulfrich effect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulfrich_effect
Interesting. When I look at certain pictures through a vr headset, specifically ones with the colors red and blue, they have a 3d effect to me. Could my color blindness have anything to do with that or does everyone see that?
hey i get this every time i try this is there a way to fix it (unsupported input channel number set Error initializing output stream 0:1 -- Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:1 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height Conversion failed!)
Thanks for the infornation and free software but omg I almost fell asleep watching this - would rather buy a 3d converter online if it's at least half the hassle than doing all this .
I realize isn't not likely anyone will follow up 2 years later, but I followed the instructions as exactly as I could, and ended up with a SBS video that when I play it in the Rift default 3d player in SBS / flat mode is double-wide. So the video in a normal player is 3840 x 1080 (with 2 frames side by side). The trouble is that when the Rift player combines the SBS frames, I get a "3D-ish" single frame that's 3840 x 1080 with the people looking extra wide. Not even COVID lockdown had made me THAT wide. ;) Am I making some common beginner error?
Face man great tutorial, I know this stuff takes ages to get all figured out. I like 3D movies, I have an LG OLED with passive 3D and sometimes buy 3D Blu-ray but I think I'm pretty much the only person who still does. I bought the Terminator 2 3D Blu-ray recently, great job and fascinating how they converted it. Not too sure what I'd think of the results of this method, what do you think?
Hmm, this isn't as good a result as 3D Blu-ray. To be honest I like to have this for videos that will never be 3D. Or like home videos. The other tutorial I did with 3D Blu-rays in VR I'd way better imo, this is more like a complimentary vid for vids that will never be 3D. Its funny I think 3D Blu-ray were always gonna miss their mark with 3D TVs as the result just isn't that mind blowing. But in VR it is. If VR were mainstream right now I think 3D movies would be a much bigger industry. But yeah, as for this tutorial, if you have something you really wanna see in a discount 3D that you cant get in 3D then this is cool. But it's limited
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Ok... so I did everything and it worked fairly well. Just one problem... I have videos that are in a 4:3 aspect ratio, and with these settings, the vid gets skewed/stretched. Is there a setting that can maintain the 4:3 aspect ratio? Or am I S.O.L.?
I already have a Side by Side VR video but it's not working right in VR at all. I can still see both sides as if I were crosseyed, rather than them combining and viewing in VR as normal. How can I fix this? Do I need to dome it some how?
Hi, I have followed the instructions and so far all is good, but... I left the VirtualDub to do its thing and when I came back to check up on it (after about 15 minutes) it seemed to have finished. After checking the AVI conversion it has only done about 20 minutes on the film. The progress meter on VD seems to fill rather quickly hence (i would suppose) only a short part being encoded. Any help appreciated. I have enough HD space also over 2 Gb.
Everything was working well but my resulting two-hour movie had a grey band across the entire screen, making the video semi-transparent. Any idea what I did wrong?
I wonder if there's a simpler way to do this. If you had a prog like VLC split the 2d into a left and right image eg SBS and then delayed the left or right image by a frame or a couple of frames. You would effectively create a marginaly diferent view of the scene for each eye. The vr could then use the normal SBS formating rule to create the 3d. This would work on some scenes better than others since there is no real analysis of the image involved. Then there's the Pulfrich effect where you have one eye slightly dimmer.
i used to have a program that did this on the fly , just picked a non 3d-movie and played it as stereoscopic to then send to my VR headset it was called TRIdef , but it doesn't work anymore , maybe there's another program that does the same thing
@@ThermaL-ty7bw I'll give this a try if i can find an older stand alone version. so far it seems their server may be down , eg authenticity checker. required to active and run the program. [edit] OK I found the 'fix' player file, and this still works. its just a shame it wasn't also set up to work with a capture card as the file input, that would be the ultimate. But it does work for normal 2d files. thanks.
Followed this to the letter and got stuck in the end, after 3 hours!!!! The VirtualDub wont actually open the 2d-to-3d-03b file! Saying Directshowsource couldnt open file, can anyone help?
Nah not yet. I'm going to order a t-shirt from YT and see what the fit is like. Whenever I've bought from online stores that handle the t-shirt (while the artist just does the graphics) have always been a totally shit fit. If I'm gonna put my logo on something I want people to get something that's worth buying you know. I have a couple artist friends who can design some sick stuff so maybe looking at just doing a separate limited. Just ideas right now but could be cool :) And will do sooner rather than later
Oh fuck. I used to drive an old f150 for work occasionally to move bricks from one site to another. Thing was a beast and drove like one too haha. Seen an f500 (may have been 350, can't remember) years ago in the city which may not be out of the ordinary for the US but in AU it's a fucking giant, was pretty impressive to see one all tricked out
did everything and when i open the main video file it just sits there with the cone on the screen and the bar going back and forth. no errors or messages. any ideas?
This does not sync the frames between left and right for me. They are off a frame or so....making anything converted, completely unwatchable. Thoughts?
@@2Takki I didn't think it was a matter of being a frame or two behind, but rather one frame offset on the screen, but still in sync. It wouldn't even make sense to watch video where each eye sees a completely different frame. ANY other sbs video, has BOTH screens in sync, just offset on the screen space, and works well. This, is impossible to watch.
@@F4CEpa1m With AI image processing and machine learning techniques becoming shockingly powerful late, I'm curious if you have revisited 2D to 3D video conversion lately to see if there are much better results just becoming possible now.
@@F4CEpa1m Diving into it now. Hope to find something very solid. Here are some movie trailers that have been converted from 2D to 3D using Google AI techniques. ua-cam.com/users/pusuxuvideos The results are more 3D then the above technique, however there seem to be some fairly common mistakes made by the AI when determining a objects depth as well as some artifacting along some of the edges. You can see it's close and has real potential. Looking around this week to see if there is anything else even further along.
Not sure if I would do this as it is a lot of steps but I am curious if it would be better than the 2d-3d feature of my tv. Love your tutorials though, very clear and easy to follow!
Yeah it's quite involved this one. Took me fuckin ages to figure it out and was like meh I'll share it :D I only use it rarely for something I really want to see how it looks in 3D. To be honest I'm addicted to ripping 3D blurays and watching them in VR (from the last tutorial). That works really really well
Think I will check out some 3d content, last time I tried in VR was using bigscreen and streaming 3d UA-cam content, not particularly exciting I know XD and the 3d feature of my tv has not been used in a long time. Shame really since I have a small collection of 3d Blu-ray disks.
Oh mate use my last tutorial to rip them all to your PC/mobile VR hmd and use Skybox media player to view. It's so much better than a 3D TV. Tbh I think that's where 3D went wrong, the TV's just don't have the size required to really blow your face off
i am stuck at 4.43 when you need to open power shell, on the same folder do not see this option plus i have opened it on my search bar but it does not recognize the copy and paste was trying mp4 convert help please
I know this was a long time ago but maybe someone having the same problem sees this. When you have an Explorer open (to browse files) you can go into the adresssbar, delete everything and just type "cmd" a command prompt will open with the path you had open in the explorer. For this here, is no need for powershell as it is a simple command prompt.
Nah it makes them 3D. Nothing can take a 2D image and make it in to a 180 or 360 movie. I mean you could stretch the image that far but it wouldn't be anything worth watching
Oh ok, thanks for the tutorial tho, still a cool feature.. I thought maybe a program out there could do it, maybe bend the picture around.. what if u played a video on like a surround imax video player in 3d.., wouldn't that give a similar type of effect?
Nah it's just for taking an existing 2D movie file that you have and forcing it to a faux SBS 3D mode. If you have 3D movie files already, Skybox should play them directly I think. Or if you have a Blu-ray 3D movie my last tutorial gets much much more impressive results. In fact I'm addicted to finding 3D Blu-rays now, ripping them and watching in VR :D so good
I tried this on 7 different movies. Only about 1% of the 14-ish hours worth of content are in 3D. And of those 1%, it's just the intro animations before the actual film. Update: GITS finished, tried it out before using handbrake, looks decent. I'm going to redo the others and see if HB is the issue.
It's worth noting that if you have any of those on an actual 3D Blu-ray then definitely use the other vid instead. Gives waaaay better quality: ua-cam.com/video/hYnGhhVJ7TA/v-deo.html
Yeah for sure. Out of all those though Skybox plays videos the most consistently. A couple people here mentioned their videos wouldn't play correctly in Bigscreen, but Skybox worked perfectly. I've seen similar behaviour. Watching in Bigscreen with friends is really tough to beat though!
This did *technically* work, but you were not kidding. I tested it by using a music video. Whenever there was any dance movement or quick moving colored lights it became really disorienting and eyes could see a bit of "double" vision on the things that were moving. Unfortunately, I couldn't enjoy the video this way. :(
Love the tutorial! I had been using IQmango, but it actually shrinks the filesize to be even smaller than the 2d source. This worked great for saving the quality! Now, a question... As I only have a PSVR headset, I use DeoVR player since I can use my gamepad controller to select things. But there's an issue where the video is stretched really wide like it's made for a wide imax screen. Basically, it retains the 3840 resolution width but with the sbs video. Do you know a way to fix that? If not, do you know if Skybox can be controlled by a regular controller? I just don't want to drop $15 on the chance I can't even navigate it. And based on your video, Skybox will force the 1920x1080 ratio, right? Really appreciate the video, and hope you can help!
This doesn't make videos 3D at all... If you compare the two sides of the video everything has the same offset (will be at the same depth). There's no depth difference between objects in the scene. Lots of comments excited that it's free, but that doesn't matter if the process doesn't actually do any 2D -> 3D conversion...
When I try to open '2d-to-3d-03b.avs' in VirtualDub it says: 'Avisynth open failure: DirectShowSource Could not open as video or audio' etc... I was fallowing all of your steps in the video. What did I wrong? Thank you!
Not quite. What this process basically does, is delay the frames by a small amount for the other eye. It only works better with horizontal movements, so the results will vary depending on what happens on screen.
Not that I'm aware of. 180 degree video is usually filmed with 180 degree cameras and I'm not sure what software exactly devs use to warp it out. Faking this in software is possible I suppose from a flat video, but it would surely reduce the res further and wouldn't have any sort of depth. Honestly I think it'd look really poor, and flat, like a big stretched out bent up image..
Anyone know how you could use your VR headset to simply watch movies? And I don't mean a virtual theater, no motion or anything just turning your headset into a simple monitor. Just wanna watch netflix and not wake my wife or baby up.
Oculus GO and the Netflix app is your best bet for that, and it works really well. For PC VR there is a void environment in Virtual Desktop or Bigscreen as well, so no virtual theatre
F4CEpa1m x_0 yes I mean Nintendo 3ds. The reason I ask about this, because there is a website that gives all new movies in 3d however when I try to view them in 3ds the 3d effect looks wanky however it works perfectly good with VR devices. I like to use Nintendo 3ds because I dont have to wear googles or glasses. It feels more natural and relaxed. Check this website 3donlinefilms.com
Thank You for Your kind reply. i would like to know how they add special effects into movies like an object being thrown at You. it it can be done without a 3d camera and just one video that has the effect and the other two side by side over layed
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My old TV converts 2D to 3D on the fly. It's actually really impressive.
I can't wait until someone makes an app that does this with VR on the fly.
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How this tutorial feels like:
Lift up your left leg! Great!
Now move your left leg forward! Nice!
Put down your left leg! Awesome!
Now lift up your right left! Cool!
Move your right left forward! Amazing!
Now put it down! Congratulations now you know how to walk!
Great vid though
Lots of useful info.
My take on it is that a 2D to '3D' movie isn't really possible, but to have the illusion of stereoscopic images, all you can do is start one of the video screens a few frames before the other one.
I make 3D photos and I realised something: if you pan your camera when taking a video, frames 1 and 4 (give or take) will likely be Stereoscopic (3D).
If I was to try and make a 3D-ish movie from a 2D one, I'd just load the same movie into premier elements 2 times, delete the audio from one track, and advance one movie by about 4 frames.
The eye can't tell the difference, the audio stays with the unaltered video and in certain scenes you'll think it's 3D.
It's a lot quicker
Quicker yes, but the result isn't as consistent. To be honest this whole process is more of a novelty to play around with (which I find super fun haha) and can't compare to ripping a 3D movie like in my other vid.
That's very cool about frame 1 + 4, makes perfect sense as stereoscopic images are essentially just 2 slightly offset and sometimes warped variations of each other presented at the same time separately to each eye. Nice tip/trick!
a.i. like Owl3D can do it pretty well, just only does 1 minute for free you got to pay for more as far as i know
'Share, help spread the virus' That aged well...
Frankie Thomas LOL
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Hey, thanks for the vid, still a top result after all this time. So I tried it out and everything works as you said. The 3d is pretty odd (compared to a real3d) and it's hard for me to watch. So just curious if paid products produce a better, more watchable result? If so, what's a good one for it?
Thanks
I see myself using this some in the future. 3D blurays have begun to decline sadly. A few movies in particular are hard to find in 3D depending on the regions. For US regions, I can't find Thor: Ragnarok. I just went to Best Buy last week and they told me they are not getting RP1 in 3D. So it's around $50 on amazon. I'll probably have to buy that one, but one day when I just can't get them anymore or I am not willing to pay, this is definitely my solution. Thanks again for showing us. Seems similar to the last method with a few differences.
Yeah this method is cool but it's a much lesser effect than the 3D Blu-ray rips. I hope VR can catch up fast enough and show everyone how good 3D movies are in VR before 3D movies disappear altogether. 3D TV's were never gonna cut it but in VR it's fucking great. Just picked up Tron Legacy after your recommendation, it's on my GO and gonna watch in about an hour. Psyched!
@Cory C I wholeheartedly disagree. I'd rather lower res in VR than 3D tv faux depth. Each to their own I guess. If you prefer resolution then 3D tv could be better for you but that point alone is beginning less and less relevant
i know what You mean , i feel so sad they are not really making 3d tvs anymore :( everything is 4k. i have 4k and i am not impressed unless it is a really nice movie like Martian,otherwise if i were able to i would trade 4k for 3d Blue ray Letterbox any day
Same. I'm concerned that as VR headset resolution gets better, this great tech for watching 3D movies will be held back by the fact that there won't be any 3D movies.. Hopefully VR can get that segment of the home market some life, but it'll need to move quick
Finally got around to your video converting series and it was well worth my time. Now I can finish what George Lucas started and convert the entire 6 film Star Wars saga into 3D. :D
Haha yeah. With this one in particular I'd say trial a smaller clip first as the results aren't exactly mind blowing. I mean, it def works and it's cool but I found that this one is more suited to things like home videos etc... Or cartoons even
It probably won't be the best for the speeder bike sequence, but the slave Leia bits should be pretty good. :D
I tried this exact process and made a 5 minute '3d' video conversion . The result was mid compared to what other 3d movies i watched using vr glasses. There's not much depth but some frames does have little 3d effect. But the process was quick and easy to follow. Just cant expect too much with the result though.
Hi, this is the only tutorial that worked for me, million thx! One question plz, how to keep original sound track?
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I don't understand this part : I have to do what when he says? : "copy the other settings and then click on ok"
why isnt there just software that will just put copy of whats playing to the side so its just SBS easy? Without having to render a movie and go thru all the processes of ripping and rendering. Takes half a day just to do 1 video that might not be great. I seen a Desktop SBS app I tried but it doesn't work quite right.
It seems to delay the one half a frame to get the 3d from what I can tell so far, Makes it look kind of bad on motion and cuts which is i think you said. That being said tho I did Robocop and so far it's pretty sweet so thanks. I was going to try to convert some timelapses or something over
Yeh that's basically what it does. Things like RoboCop and stuff would be pretty decent, glad you got good results. I definitely wouldn't watch Transformers the movie with it though! Was tough enough at IMAX 3D
DO I understand it right that all this does is the split view or are there any color or timing changes going on?
Awesome! Will have to try this script to turn racing drone footage into 180 degree youtube videos in 3D. Probably even crazier to experience than those VR rollercoasters.
Yo let me know how it turns out! Single shot files with smooth panning should come out good
Hi! Did you get this working for drone footage?
Thanks bro, i tried many 3d converters but this process works perfectly
Nice. Great to hear :)
But I can't identify the 3d effects because the effects are so sharp. So can you suggest any setting for this.
What about the apps that make any video side by side and has the 3D filter ? Wouldn't that work
Having problems getting audio in the video to work, it's working on SBS but audio doesn't get into the video.
These instructions were amazing, and very thorough. This did *technically* work, but you were not kidding. I tested it by using a music video. Whenever there was any dance movement or quick moving colored lights it became really disorienting and eyes could see a bit of "double" vision on the things that were moving. Unfortunately, I couldn't enjoy the video this way. :(
Thanks for the video. Very interesting. This is similar to the Pulfrich effect. If you put a dark neutral lens over one eye and watch TV you will notice a 3D effect whenever there is lateral movement horizontally (e.g left to right or right to left). I used to do it as a kid watching TV ! The effect collapses on still images. The Pulfrich effect is similar to electronically delaying one of the eye image frames but uses the biological latency of the human eye on darker images to create a similar effect so your visual cortex receives the darker image after the other eye which has the brighter image. If you can change the brightness on only one eye watching a 2D VR image it should also create the Pulfrich effect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulfrich_effect
Interesting. When I look at certain pictures through a vr headset, specifically ones with the colors red and blue, they have a 3d effect to me. Could my color blindness have anything to do with that or does everyone see that?
@@iamvulgar8188 Same for me when I'm looking at webpages with images on the oculus browser
@@iamvulgar8188 It has to do with color wavelengths, and the speed red vs blue reaches your that eyes. I do see it sometimes.
This worked for me.
hey i get this every time i try this is there a way to fix it (unsupported input channel number set
Error initializing output stream 0:1 -- Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:1 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
Conversion failed!)
Thanks for the infornation and free software but omg I almost fell asleep watching this - would rather buy a 3d converter online if it's at least half the hassle than doing all this .
I tried this and ended up with the same movie playing next to itself side by side.
Lol yes that’s the 3D movie. U need to use a vr headset 2 watch it in 3d
looooooooooooool
Oh, that's not complicated at all. Just a few hundred mouse clicks
I am dropping a like and subscribing even though I don't watch this content regularly just because they make a written guide
I realize isn't not likely anyone will follow up 2 years later, but I followed the instructions as exactly as I could, and ended up with a SBS video that when I play it in the Rift default 3d player in SBS / flat mode is double-wide. So the video in a normal player is 3840 x 1080 (with 2 frames side by side). The trouble is that when the Rift player combines the SBS frames, I get a "3D-ish" single frame that's 3840 x 1080 with the people looking extra wide. Not even COVID lockdown had made me THAT wide. ;) Am I making some common beginner error?
I dont understand, it still looks 2d. if i switch to the 180 fisheye mode, it just makes the video super distorted.
You did not understand, it does not transform a 2D film into a 180 ° or other film. It is to have a 3D effect in SBS mode
Is there a way I can do this but keep the video/film in 4K quality?
So cool but how we can do it with “Half width”
This is great but now I need a way to do a batch of videos. Why can't handbrake do all of this so I can queue everything up in one program?
Face man great tutorial, I know this stuff takes ages to get all figured out. I like 3D movies, I have an LG OLED with passive 3D and sometimes buy 3D Blu-ray but I think I'm pretty much the only person who still does. I bought the Terminator 2 3D Blu-ray recently, great job and fascinating how they converted it. Not too sure what I'd think of the results of this method, what do you think?
Hmm, this isn't as good a result as 3D Blu-ray. To be honest I like to have this for videos that will never be 3D. Or like home videos. The other tutorial I did with 3D Blu-rays in VR I'd way better imo, this is more like a complimentary vid for vids that will never be 3D.
Its funny I think 3D Blu-ray were always gonna miss their mark with 3D TVs as the result just isn't that mind blowing. But in VR it is. If VR were mainstream right now I think 3D movies would be a much bigger industry.
But yeah, as for this tutorial, if you have something you really wanna see in a discount 3D that you cant get in 3D then this is cool. But it's limited
What about streaming services?
Im getting an error when opening the 2d to 3d file with virtualdub: AVI import filter error: (Unknown) (80040154)
You need to make sure both Virtualdub and Avisynth are either 32-bit or 64-bit. Any difference between the two and you'll get that error.
@@2Takki Thanks!
The FFMPEG download link listed in the description no longer exists. However, you can download the FFMPEG file here:
www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/
Then click on the link that says:
ffmpeg-git-full.7z
i love this guy
hell none of the links work to download any of the software mentioned. this tutorial is bull.
Also.. 6 years old. I'll check them out when I can and see if any replacements
Ok... so I did everything and it worked fairly well. Just one problem... I have videos that are in a 4:3 aspect ratio, and with these settings, the vid gets skewed/stretched. Is there a setting that can maintain the 4:3 aspect ratio? Or am I S.O.L.?
you could convert your 4:3 into 16:9 with black bar around it then convert it to 3d
I already have a Side by Side VR video but it's not working right in VR at all. I can still see both sides as if I were crosseyed, rather than them combining and viewing in VR as normal. How can I fix this? Do I need to dome it some how?
lol
Hi, I have followed the instructions and so far all is good, but... I left the VirtualDub to do its thing and when I came back to check up on it (after about 15 minutes) it seemed to have finished. After checking the AVI conversion it has only done about 20 minutes on the film. The progress meter on VD seems to fill rather quickly hence (i would suppose) only a short part being encoded. Any help appreciated. I have enough HD space also over 2 Gb.
what did you use xvid for?
Hi!
Virtual Dup -> AVI Filter import error ? thanks for answering
Everything was working well but my resulting two-hour movie had a grey band across the entire screen, making the video semi-transparent. Any idea what I did wrong?
I wonder if there's a simpler way to do this. If you had a prog like VLC split the 2d into a left and right image eg SBS and then delayed the left or right image by a frame or a couple of frames. You would effectively create a marginaly diferent view of the scene for each eye. The vr could then use the normal SBS formating rule to create the 3d. This would work on some scenes better than others since there is no real analysis of the image involved. Then there's the Pulfrich effect where you have one eye slightly dimmer.
i used to have a program that did this on the fly , just picked a non 3d-movie and played it as stereoscopic to then send to my VR headset
it was called TRIdef , but it doesn't work anymore , maybe there's another program that does the same thing
@@ThermaL-ty7bw I'll give this a try if i can find an older stand alone version. so far it seems their server may be down , eg authenticity checker. required to active and run the program. [edit] OK I found the 'fix' player file, and this still works. its just a shame it wasn't also set up to work with a capture card as the file input, that would be the ultimate. But it does work for normal 2d files. thanks.
Followed this to the letter and got stuck in the end, after 3 hours!!!! The VirtualDub wont actually open the 2d-to-3d-03b file! Saying Directshowsource couldnt open file, can anyone help?
help.. my Virtual Dub said Out of memory ?
thanks for this man , do you have t shirts for your logo yet? or stickers ?
Nah not yet. I'm going to order a t-shirt from YT and see what the fit is like. Whenever I've bought from online stores that handle the t-shirt (while the artist just does the graphics) have always been a totally shit fit. If I'm gonna put my logo on something I want people to get something that's worth buying you know. I have a couple artist friends who can design some sick stuff so maybe looking at just doing a separate limited. Just ideas right now but could be cool :) And will do sooner rather than later
i would love a tag for my truck , licence plate i have 2 holders on it.
Ah mate that'd be sick, I'll let you know soon as I get something :) Is that the one you use for sound comps?
yeah i don't do it any more but that is the truck that i used its a twin turbo ford f150
Oh fuck. I used to drive an old f150 for work occasionally to move bricks from one site to another. Thing was a beast and drove like one too haha. Seen an f500 (may have been 350, can't remember) years ago in the city which may not be out of the ordinary for the US but in AU it's a fucking giant, was pretty impressive to see one all tricked out
right frames appears a bit later than the left ones, any solution?
That's what gives the video the 3d illusion
did everything and when i open the main video file it just sits there with the cone on the screen and the bar going back and forth. no errors or messages. any ideas?
i think I should download the 3d movie and just watch
If a 3D version is available then yeah, 100%
So what do you do when you follow the instructions exactly but when you go to open the 2d-3d file in VirtualDub it says it can't open it
I have discovered, do not put the .avi after title video, so if anyone has the same as I did just title the file video
This does not sync the frames between left and right for me. They are off a frame or so....making anything converted, completely unwatchable.
Thoughts?
It's supposed to do that. That's what creates the 3D effect.
@@2Takki I didn't think it was a matter of being a frame or two behind, but rather one frame offset on the screen, but still in sync. It wouldn't even make sense to watch video where each eye sees a completely different frame.
ANY other sbs video, has BOTH screens in sync, just offset on the screen space, and works well.
This, is impossible to watch.
Does this work for quest 360 vr movies too?
Stop giving me stuff to try! ;) - Nice video buddy!
HAHAHA.. exactly.
It's a problem I know, I'm sorry :)
not sorry :p
@@F4CEpa1m With AI image processing and machine learning techniques becoming shockingly powerful late, I'm curious if you have revisited 2D to 3D video conversion lately to see if there are much better results just becoming possible now.
I haven't but will do at some stage, have you seen anything in particular that's interesting?
@@F4CEpa1m Diving into it now. Hope to find something very solid. Here are some movie trailers that have been converted from 2D to 3D using Google AI techniques. ua-cam.com/users/pusuxuvideos The results are more 3D then the above technique, however there seem to be some fairly common mistakes made by the AI when determining a objects depth as well as some artifacting along some of the edges. You can see it's close and has real potential. Looking around this week to see if there is anything else even further along.
Not sure if I would do this as it is a lot of steps but I am curious if it would be better than the 2d-3d feature of my tv. Love your tutorials though, very clear and easy to follow!
Yeah it's quite involved this one. Took me fuckin ages to figure it out and was like meh I'll share it :D I only use it rarely for something I really want to see how it looks in 3D. To be honest I'm addicted to ripping 3D blurays and watching them in VR (from the last tutorial). That works really really well
Think I will check out some 3d content, last time I tried in VR was using bigscreen and streaming 3d UA-cam content, not particularly exciting I know XD and the 3d feature of my tv has not been used in a long time. Shame really since I have a small collection of 3d Blu-ray disks.
Oh mate use my last tutorial to rip them all to your PC/mobile VR hmd and use Skybox media player to view. It's so much better than a 3D TV. Tbh I think that's where 3D went wrong, the TV's just don't have the size required to really blow your face off
Awesome I`ll give it a go!
Doh just realized my computers drive is dvd only and as it is a slot in disk drive in my MSI G series mini gaming pc I can`t change it :(
Legendary... A+++
It's a little more blocky than the original, but it does have a 3D affect to it.
i am stuck at 4.43 when you need to open power shell, on the same folder do not see this option plus i have opened it on my search bar but it does not recognize the copy and paste was trying mp4 convert help please
I know this was a long time ago but maybe someone having the same problem sees this. When you have an Explorer open (to browse files) you can go into the adresssbar, delete everything and just type "cmd" a command prompt will open with the path you had open in the explorer. For this here, is no need for powershell as it is a simple command prompt.
This was very elaborate
I wonder if this just makes a 3d movie or an actual VR movie where you can look around a little bit.. can you use 180 mode with these 3d movies or no?
Nah it makes them 3D. Nothing can take a 2D image and make it in to a 180 or 360 movie. I mean you could stretch the image that far but it wouldn't be anything worth watching
Oh ok, thanks for the tutorial tho, still a cool feature.. I thought maybe a program out there could do it, maybe bend the picture around.. what if u played a video on like a surround imax video player in 3d.., wouldn't that give a similar type of effect?
Great video thanks!
You could do all this with a simple batch script.
So does this work better with 3d movies? Or is it meant just for 2d movies?
Nah it's just for taking an existing 2D movie file that you have and forcing it to a faux SBS 3D mode. If you have 3D movie files already, Skybox should play them directly I think. Or if you have a Blu-ray 3D movie my last tutorial gets much much more impressive results. In fact I'm addicted to finding 3D Blu-rays now, ripping them and watching in VR :D so good
Any way to get GPU acceleration working on VirtualDub?
It worked for me but the audio runs much later than the video, can someone help me?
Having the same issue.
I tried this on 7 different movies. Only about 1% of the 14-ish hours worth of content are in 3D. And of those 1%, it's just the intro animations before the actual film.
Update: GITS finished, tried it out before using handbrake, looks decent. I'm going to redo the others and see if HB is the issue.
It's worth noting that if you have any of those on an actual 3D Blu-ray then definitely use the other vid instead. Gives waaaay better quality: ua-cam.com/video/hYnGhhVJ7TA/v-deo.html
There's Bigscreen, Virtual-Desktop and dont forget "VR Toolbox: 360 desktop"
Yeah for sure. Out of all those though Skybox plays videos the most consistently. A couple people here mentioned their videos wouldn't play correctly in Bigscreen, but Skybox worked perfectly. I've seen similar behaviour. Watching in Bigscreen with friends is really tough to beat though!
This did *technically* work, but you were not kidding. I tested it by using a music video. Whenever there was any dance movement or quick moving colored lights it became really disorienting and eyes could see a bit of "double" vision on the things that were moving. Unfortunately, I couldn't enjoy the video this way. :(
Thank you for the Lovely tutorial but i was wondering if i could create a half SBS video. Could you help me out? Thank you in advance!
just get wondershare uniconverter, 2 clicks and it will do it for you.
Love the tutorial! I had been using IQmango, but it actually shrinks the filesize to be even smaller than the 2d source. This worked great for saving the quality! Now, a question... As I only have a PSVR headset, I use DeoVR player since I can use my gamepad controller to select things. But there's an issue where the video is stretched really wide like it's made for a wide imax screen. Basically, it retains the 3840 resolution width but with the sbs video. Do you know a way to fix that? If not, do you know if Skybox can be controlled by a regular controller? I just don't want to drop $15 on the chance I can't even navigate it. And based on your video, Skybox will force the 1920x1080 ratio, right? Really appreciate the video, and hope you can help!
idk how you ever got it to work. it always showed one eye to slow for the other. This software never helped and.
This is the simple way?
Do you have to handbrake it again if you have done it once in the last video ( rip blueray to pc).
Nah, only needs one pass through handbrake. This video is completely independent from the other one
@@F4CEpa1m thanks so much for getting back to me. ^_^
This doesn't make videos 3D at all... If you compare the two sides of the video everything has the same offset (will be at the same depth). There's no depth difference between objects in the scene. Lots of comments excited that it's free, but that doesn't matter if the process doesn't actually do any 2D -> 3D conversion...
Converted a movie like instructed, but it stutters like hell on my Oculus Go. Tried different VR Players, but all with the same result. :(
It just keeps telling me I am out of space, I have well over 600GB available. Anyone know what the issue could be?
any way to use the gpu for encoding ?
It is not a free, if you have to buy Skybox VR
There are plenty of other players out there for free
When this video was made SkyBox was free. A free VR Player to use is Big Screen.
thanks a ton
No worries :)
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Yo did you see the trailer for Zero Calibre on UploadVR? It's out in September, around the same time as Firewall on PSVR, interesting.
When I try to open '2d-to-3d-03b.avs' in VirtualDub it says: 'Avisynth open failure: DirectShowSource Could not open as video or audio' etc... I was fallowing all of your steps in the video. What did I wrong?
Thank you!
possible You needed the .Avi file in that folder to exist (just how you spelt it in the notepad),or it will not find it?
@@sweetleaf7751 thanks dear it helped
need a program that does all of this shit for me.
Yeah there are a couple of paid options that will do it
the ffpeg link is not working for me
It's work on 3D TV
your fmpeg command doesn't work. It requires q:a or q:v
the script link shows 403 forbidden
well - thats 2D to 2D ( SBS Flat ) but not 3D ( SBS VR180 / SBS VR360 ) !!
Not quite.
What this process basically does, is delay the frames by a small amount for the other eye.
It only works better with horizontal movements, so the results will vary depending on what happens on screen.
2D to 3D Converter Script: link doesnt work
is it possible to remove the distortion you get when playing in VR from a 2D video?
What distortion do you mean?
@@F4CEpa1m what I mean is instead of playing it in theater mode, play it in 180 degrees mode without distortion?
Not that I'm aware of. 180 degree video is usually filmed with 180 degree cameras and I'm not sure what software exactly devs use to warp it out. Faking this in software is possible I suppose from a flat video, but it would surely reduce the res further and wouldn't have any sort of depth. Honestly I think it'd look really poor, and flat, like a big stretched out bent up image..
@@F4CEpa1m that sounds correct, thanks for replying
Cant you just use Handbrake to convert the vid to avi?
only on HandBrake 0.9.2 and earlier versions, newer Hand Brake will not
*NO 60fps???* 🤯😭
Why so much work? Vr video apps should have a feature that converts 2d to 3d in real time, just like my old 3d tv.
That'd be sick
I have an Irusu Play VR Ultra VR Headset and I want to watch movies, documentaries or for educational purpose. Will try this out thanks. 🙏
Is it possible to convert a single image into an SBS?
it certainly is and you can make it proper 3d by drawing a depthmap. try 3dCombine.
Could provide another link for 2d to 3d converter script.zip please? The one above is not working.
just use wonder share and You come up with the same results
The version of wondershare that does that conversion isn't free
@@F4CEpa1m Yes that is true i know
first link not working please new link ffmpege
Anyone know how you could use your VR headset to simply watch movies? And I don't mean a virtual theater, no motion or anything just turning your headset into a simple monitor. Just wanna watch netflix and not wake my wife or baby up.
Oculus GO and the Netflix app is your best bet for that, and it works really well. For PC VR there is a void environment in Virtual Desktop or Bigscreen as well, so no virtual theatre
Does this work with 3ds?
I have no idea tbh, great question. You mean Nintendo 3DS yeah?
F4CEpa1m x_0 yes I mean Nintendo 3ds. The reason I ask about this, because there is a website that gives all new movies in 3d however when I try to view them in 3ds the 3d effect looks wanky however it works perfectly good with VR devices. I like to use Nintendo 3ds because I dont have to wear googles or glasses. It feels more natural and relaxed. Check this website 3donlinefilms.com
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Did not work,still a 2d movie .
Cool story bro
well it will be, its just a 2d movie split into 2 channels.
It has some Depth but no true 3D
Nah, definitely not true 3D. But about as good as I could get it with free software
Thank You for Your kind reply. i would like to know how they add special effects into movies like an object being thrown at You. it it can be done without a 3d camera and just one video that has the effect and the other two side by side over layed