Thank you for this! My FujiFilm 3D camera has new life-- before I could only look at my 3D pictures/videos on the back of the camera itself, but I discovered I can look at them in my VR headset as well. Unfortunately, I could only look at the 3D picture files.... but NOW all of my 3D videos can be viewed there as well, thanks to your help!
@@ANAVision I prefer Vegas because color grading is easier. In PD you can only do one file at a time in Color Director. Also in Vegas you can output 10 bit if you have the file to do that. That being said if you are not doing much color grading and rendering 8 bit. PD is easier.
Thanks so much for including the script commands in the notes! Incredibly helpful. I just bought the W3 (mainly for stills) but am looking forward to your gimbal suggestions too. I see the new Qoocam Ego has just been released which does have higher resolution and better image quality than the W3. But it still lacks all the manual controls, zoom lens and other shooting functions of the W3, so I'm keen to prove that when used with Photoshop post-processing, the W3 is still the best 3D camera to have!
I know exactly what you're taking about. I bought an Ego 2 weeks ago, and a W3 this week. I'm so glad I did! I'll use both, for slightly different purposes. Horses for courses.
I've had this camera for 2.5 years and now I can finally edit 3D vids! Bizarre how the Finepix software I have only lets you watch in anaglyph or interlaced which doesn't work on my Panasonic passive. MASSIVE THANK YOU! EDIT: When I drag the files into my edit software (Magix Movie) I get no video and have to convert the converetd files in VLC. If anyone knows how to get around this please comment
Thanks so much for your feedback :) Much appreciated! I hope that get an answer the Magix Movie question to optimize your workflow. If you find a solution yourself, please also post it here for interest.
Thank you for this video. I have found I can greatly improve the quality video by running it through Topaz Video Enhance AI an even scale it up. I then run it though a frame rate increase through a tool list SVP 4Pro to get the frame rate up to 60 FPS, from 24 FPS. This makes the video much smoother and looks beautiful on a Quest 2 VR headset and 3D TV. The difference in dramatic.
@@ANAVision I just got back from a Europe trip and have a lot of video footage shot with the Fujifilm W3. I would love to see a video detailing the process of taking W3 shot video through a tool like Topaz Video Enhance to upscale, stabilize, and increase frame rate with output to a final SBS format video.
@@digitaljackson3891 I imagine that the order in which you do this would be quite important and would need some experimenting. In my thinking it's important to do the stabilizing step after SBS is stitched together, as otherwise you could get into parallax and misalignment issues.
@@ANAVision I watched your other video on editing 3D stereoscopic videos (very helpful) and see that you nested the left and right footage in Premiere so that the same stabilization operation applies to both. Since Topaz does not have the ability to nest footage, I was thinking Topaz first to upscale/enhance the separate left and right footage (and maybe increase frame rate). Then, with left and right still separate, going to Premiere or DaVinci Resolve for stabilization, color correction, etc. My thinking is that stabilizing with SBS stitched together will cause smearing along the edges versus using a cropped stabilization on the separated left and right footage which will eliminate edge issues. Processing stereoscopic footage is a new thing for me so unsure if this method will work.
@@digitaljackson3891, any operation on the video that could cause shifts in the image are the ones you need to be careful about. Upscaling, color correction, enhancements, possibly even frame rate changes are generally pixel operations, and don't transform the image position and are hence relatively low risk. You can do these anywhere (separate or together). But stabilization has the risk of causing shift transforms differently to each eye, hence for that I would recommend using the same algorithm on both (either by combining image as SBS prior to processing or bundling in other way such as nesting)
Hi Andreas, very good video. Even for me, who has Not used the command line for more than 3 decades it was possible to convert some ten year old fuji 3D videos. The loop in your script did not work for me on Sonoma. But I could handle it. Unfortunately it did not work to view it as a spacetial video on Apple Vision Pro. Do you know the correct Parameters for it?
Hi, could you explain gimbal hack? I hope to get some pointers if possible. Am planning to do a short trip with a Fuji w3 next year, which is just a couple of weeks away so am really considering whether I really need a gimbal or not. Buy or skip. Hope you can help. Cheers.
thank you for great video, I followed the instructions for fuji 3d with great result, but the mp4 video does not play on lg tv, I had to use convertor, is it possible to modify the ffmpeg command to produce mp4 for lg tv. thank you again.
Thank you for your feedback. In general, I would stay away from using a cameras feature to add a timestamp to the image even if the feature was available since it permanently changes the image. In the case of the Fujifilm you are quite right, you don't even have the option. I would rather take a clean image and add it later using the file timestamp or metadata. There are several ways of adding a timestamp to your image using your computer. I'm linking this article as it may help with this: www.findingtheuniverse.com/how-to-add-a-date-stamp-to-photos/
Hi! When I run the command that makes the SBS file in Terminal on Mac. Terminal responses "zsh: unknown file attribute: V". I correctly installed ffmpeg on my Mac. Do you know what's the problem?
are you on a PC or Mac? If on PC, ensure that ffmpeg is in your environment path variable, or execute in same directory in which you downloaded ffmpeg.
@@ANAVision i dont know what you mean when u say ffmpeg is in your environment path variable. I downloaded the videos to a folder from my SD card... should I have run the cmd commands from the SD card ?
spent the afternoon trying to figure out a mac workaround. I'm at a loss unless I could somehow get wine bottler to run it but just updated to an m2 and there does not seem to be a wine or equivalent yet. have an old xp netbook but the opposite problem there with outdated software. stereo photo maker will not recognize the file and a few other apps do the conversion but are converting from a 2d to a 3d and at that point a cell camera would make more sense. any thoughts on getting ffmeg into stereo photo (64 silicon version)? I can run the updated ffmeg but as a terminal and not a command.
Michael, how did you go with this? Have you managed to convert the videos. If you have a terminal with ffmpeg, you should still be able to execute the command. You many need to run each file separately as the for loop variable may not work in terminal. So use a command like this instead: ffmpeg -i "in.avi" -filter_complex "[0:0][0:2] hstack=inputs=2 [out]" -aspect 1.7777 -vcodec libx264 -x264opts frame-packing=3 -map [out] -map 0:1 "out_2x1.mp4"
WIth exactly the sbove, copy pasted into a terminal window in OSX Catalina (I know, I''m way behind, it's bevcause another piece of software isn't compatible with anything more modern and I'm reluctant to upgrade and lose it), I get an error message that says "zsh: no matches found: [out]" If you have nay insight that would be fantastic, thanks!@@ANAVision
@@RossAlford try using this instead: ffmpeg -i "in.avi" -filter_complex "[0:0][0:2] hstack=inputs=2[out]" -aspect 1.7777 -vcodec libx264 -x264opts frame-packing=3 -map "[out]" -map 0:1 "out_2x1.mp4". This should prevent the shell from attempting to expand it as a glob pattern
Hi! I wonder in what program could I edit the pictures Ive taken with the w3? I’m totally new to the scene and would be very happy to be able to download an editor such the one Fujifilm had but as you said are now closed for downloads. Any tips? =)
@@karlrosell3035 I work on a PC and use Stereo Photo Maker. If you are using an iPad you may want to try i3DSteroid (apps.apple.com/app/i3dsteroid/id467945370 )
I dont have W3 but as soon as I saw this video I thought you could solve my problem. There is on market "Remon 3D Smartphone Stereoscopic Lens has a unique lens that can capture 3D image" you can see video uploaded by someone ruclips.net/video/nSrsAPSF-L4/видео.html. How to convert this video to normal SBS 3D format? Thank you in advance.
@Cowboy, the video is already in SBS, but I suspect that you would want to view this in 3D mode on RUclips. This video would need to be uploaded to RUclips using the method I describe in my other video here: ruclips.net/video/MmDrnwPIWKg/видео.html&lc=UgxEJxgDL2qP1lCPPvF4AaABAg. Also you may want to resize and crop the video to get rid of the round edges. That can be done using the editing technique in my video above.
When I paste For %f in (*.AVI) do ffmpeg -i "%f" -filter_complex "[0:0][0:2] hstack=inputs=2 [out]" -aspect 1.7777 -vcodec libx264 -x264opts frame-packing=3 -map [out] -map 0:1 "%~nf_2x1.mp4" into the command prompt I get the message "Windows cannot find 'For'. Make sure you've typed the name correctly and try again." What am I doing wrong? Can I put this into a batch file and run it?
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Great explanations as usual, thanks! Looking forward to the gimbal video as I own a W3 camera as well ;)
@Linda Kazandjian, thanks for the feedback. I hope to get some time to do the gimbal video soon.
Thank you for this! My FujiFilm 3D camera has new life-- before I could only look at my 3D pictures/videos on the back of the camera itself, but I discovered I can look at them in my VR headset as well. Unfortunately, I could only look at the 3D picture files.... but NOW all of my 3D videos can be viewed there as well, thanks to your help!
I'm glad this helped :)
I use PowerDirector and Vegas Pro. Both recognize the avi file as 3d. I can edit and then produce/render side by side etc. No conversion necessary.
Thanks for sharing. I've also used Vegas Pro and found this to handle 3D video editing quite well. How are you finding Power Director in comparison?
@@ANAVision I prefer Vegas because color grading is easier. In PD you can only do one file at a time in Color Director. Also in Vegas you can output 10 bit if you have the file to do that. That being said if you are not doing much color grading and rendering 8 bit. PD is easier.
@@davidlong8500 thanks for the insight - I appreciate that.
Thanks so much for including the script commands in the notes! Incredibly helpful.
I just bought the W3 (mainly for stills) but am looking forward to your gimbal suggestions too.
I see the new Qoocam Ego has just been released which does have higher resolution and better image quality than the W3. But it still lacks all the manual controls, zoom lens and other shooting functions of the W3, so I'm keen to prove that when used with Photoshop post-processing, the W3 is still the best 3D camera to have!
How are you finding the W3 that you bought? I also see the Qoocam Ego and am keen to give it a test drive sometime. For now, still using my W3.
Paul, I've had a look at the QooCam now. If interested you can have a look at my review of it here ruclips.net/video/HtE0AFoRhK8/видео.html
I know exactly what you're taking about. I bought an Ego 2 weeks ago, and a W3 this week. I'm so glad I did!
I'll use both, for slightly different purposes. Horses for courses.
Excellent video. I have the W1 at the moment and I love taking stills with it. I haven't bothered with the
SD video capability.
These days, it's definitely a more suitable camera for the still images. I'm glad you are enjoying the camera.
I've had this camera for 2.5 years and now I can finally edit 3D vids!
Bizarre how the Finepix software I have only lets you watch in anaglyph or interlaced which doesn't work on my Panasonic passive.
MASSIVE THANK YOU!
EDIT: When I drag the files into my edit software (Magix Movie) I get no video and have to convert the converetd files in VLC.
If anyone knows how to get around this please comment
Thanks so much for your feedback :) Much appreciated! I hope that get an answer the Magix Movie question to optimize your workflow. If you find a solution yourself, please also post it here for interest.
Agree, Fuji is the best, so far.
Hey great to hear confirmation on this. Enjoying your Fuji :)
This worked perfectly, thanks!
Glad to hear this. All the best.
Thank you for this video. I have found I can greatly improve the quality video by running it through Topaz Video Enhance AI an even scale it up. I then run it though a frame rate increase through a tool list SVP 4Pro to get the frame rate up to 60 FPS, from 24 FPS. This makes the video much smoother and looks beautiful on a Quest 2 VR headset and 3D TV. The difference in dramatic.
sounds amazing, I'm going to have to try this :)
@@ANAVision I just got back from a Europe trip and have a lot of video footage shot with the Fujifilm W3. I would love to see a video detailing the process of taking W3 shot video through a tool like Topaz Video Enhance to upscale, stabilize, and increase frame rate with output to a final SBS format video.
@@digitaljackson3891 I imagine that the order in which you do this would be quite important and would need some experimenting. In my thinking it's important to do the stabilizing step after SBS is stitched together, as otherwise you could get into parallax and misalignment issues.
@@ANAVision I watched your other video on editing 3D stereoscopic videos (very helpful) and see that you nested the left and right footage in Premiere so that the same stabilization operation applies to both. Since Topaz does not have the ability to nest footage, I was thinking Topaz first to upscale/enhance the separate left and right footage (and maybe increase frame rate). Then, with left and right still separate, going to Premiere or DaVinci Resolve for stabilization, color correction, etc. My thinking is that stabilizing with SBS stitched together will cause smearing along the edges versus using a cropped stabilization on the separated left and right footage which will eliminate edge issues. Processing stereoscopic footage is a new thing for me so unsure if this method will work.
@@digitaljackson3891, any operation on the video that could cause shifts in the image are the ones you need to be careful about. Upscaling, color correction, enhancements, possibly even frame rate changes are generally pixel operations, and don't transform the image position and are hence relatively low risk. You can do these anywhere (separate or together). But stabilization has the risk of causing shift transforms differently to each eye, hence for that I would recommend using the same algorithm on both (either by combining image as SBS prior to processing or bundling in other way such as nesting)
FANTASTIC! Thank you so much!
Hi Andreas, very good video. Even for me, who has Not used the command line for more than 3 decades it was possible to convert some ten year old fuji 3D videos. The loop in your script did not work for me on Sonoma. But I could handle it. Unfortunately it did not work to view it as a spacetial video on Apple Vision Pro. Do you know the correct Parameters for it?
Hi, could you explain gimbal hack? I hope to get some pointers if possible. Am planning to do a short trip with a Fuji w3 next year, which is just a couple of weeks away so am really considering whether I really need a gimbal or not. Buy or skip. Hope you can help. Cheers.
Great !
Thanks, helpful as always :-)
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Thanks for your feedback @Karsten Bruun Qvist. Always good to hear from you.
thank you for great video, I followed the instructions for fuji 3d with great result, but the mp4 video does not play on lg tv, I had to use convertor, is it possible to modify the ffmpeg command to produce mp4 for lg tv. thank you again.
What convertor did you use?
@@ANAVision( any dvd convertor pro.) with LG TV conversion.
Very good video. I have this camera and still can't figure out how to make it to show the date of shooting on the picture. Please advise. Thank you.
Thank you for your feedback. In general, I would stay away from using a cameras feature to add a timestamp to the image even if the feature was available since it permanently changes the image. In the case of the Fujifilm you are quite right, you don't even have the option. I would rather take a clean image and add it later using the file timestamp or metadata. There are several ways of adding a timestamp to your image using your computer. I'm linking this article as it may help with this: www.findingtheuniverse.com/how-to-add-a-date-stamp-to-photos/
Hi! When I run the command that makes the SBS file in Terminal on Mac. Terminal responses "zsh: unknown file attribute: V". I correctly installed ffmpeg on my Mac. Do you know what's the problem?
it didnt work, i got a message saying 'ffmpeg is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file'
are you on a PC or Mac? If on PC, ensure that ffmpeg is in your environment path variable, or execute in same directory in which you downloaded ffmpeg.
@@ANAVision i dont know what you mean when u say ffmpeg is in your environment path variable. I downloaded the videos to a folder from my SD card... should I have run the cmd commands from the SD card ?
@@katzunjammer, I see there is an update to the ffmpeg install video I reference for 2023. Try this: ruclips.net/video/IECI72XEox0/видео.html
spent the afternoon trying to figure out a mac workaround. I'm at a loss unless I could somehow get wine bottler to run it but just updated to an m2 and there does not seem to be a wine or equivalent yet. have an old xp netbook but the opposite problem there with outdated software. stereo photo maker will not recognize the file and a few other apps do the conversion but are converting from a 2d to a 3d and at that point a cell camera would make more sense. any thoughts on getting ffmeg into stereo photo (64 silicon version)? I can run the updated ffmeg but as a terminal and not a command.
works great running windows 11 w/ parallels! TY I am running an m2 macbook pro ventura if anyone else needs help with mac I can save you some hours
Michael, how did you go with this? Have you managed to convert the videos. If you have a terminal with ffmpeg, you should still be able to execute the command. You many need to run each file separately as the for loop variable may not work in terminal. So use a command like this instead: ffmpeg -i "in.avi" -filter_complex "[0:0][0:2] hstack=inputs=2 [out]" -aspect 1.7777 -vcodec libx264 -x264opts frame-packing=3 -map [out] -map 0:1 "out_2x1.mp4"
@@ANAVision no problem and thanks for responding. Works great
WIth exactly the sbove, copy pasted into a terminal window in OSX Catalina (I know, I''m way behind, it's bevcause another piece of software isn't compatible with anything more modern and I'm reluctant to upgrade and lose it), I get an error message that says "zsh: no matches found: [out]" If you have nay insight that would be fantastic, thanks!@@ANAVision
@@RossAlford try using this instead: ffmpeg -i "in.avi" -filter_complex "[0:0][0:2] hstack=inputs=2[out]" -aspect 1.7777 -vcodec libx264 -x264opts frame-packing=3 -map "[out]" -map 0:1 "out_2x1.mp4". This should prevent the shell from attempting to expand it as a glob pattern
Hi! I wonder in what program could I edit the pictures Ive taken with the w3? I’m totally new to the scene and would be very happy to be able to download an editor such the one Fujifilm had but as you said are now closed for downloads. Any tips? =)
Im working on an iPad Pro!*
@@karlrosell3035 I work on a PC and use Stereo Photo Maker. If you are using an iPad you may want to try i3DSteroid (apps.apple.com/app/i3dsteroid/id467945370 )
Sir, after the software update of lumepad , the touch not working, now i am using with usb mouse, how to fix that problem
Hmm, that sounds strange. I'm on latest update and not experiencing that. I suggest you contact Leia support on help@leiainc.com regarding this.
I dont have W3 but as soon as I saw this video I thought you could solve my problem. There is on market "Remon 3D Smartphone Stereoscopic Lens has a unique lens that can capture 3D image" you can see video uploaded by someone ruclips.net/video/nSrsAPSF-L4/видео.html. How to convert this video to normal SBS 3D format? Thank you in advance.
@Cowboy, the video is already in SBS, but I suspect that you would want to view this in 3D mode on RUclips. This video would need to be uploaded to RUclips using the method I describe in my other video here: ruclips.net/video/MmDrnwPIWKg/видео.html&lc=UgxEJxgDL2qP1lCPPvF4AaABAg. Also you may want to resize and crop the video to get rid of the round edges. That can be done using the editing technique in my video above.
When I paste For %f in (*.AVI) do ffmpeg -i "%f" -filter_complex "[0:0][0:2] hstack=inputs=2 [out]" -aspect 1.7777 -vcodec libx264 -x264opts frame-packing=3 -map [out] -map 0:1 "%~nf_2x1.mp4" into the command prompt I get the message "Windows cannot find 'For'. Make sure you've typed the name correctly and try again."
What am I doing wrong?
Can I put this into a batch file and run it?