Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel - Manual (Page 381)

CHAPTER STEREOSCOPIC GRADING
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With DaVinci Resolve on Mac systems, dual 4:2:2 Y’CbCr stereoscopic video streams are output via HD-
SDI on the Blackmagic DeckLink HD Extreme 3D card. You can select either Side-by-Side or Line Mesh
output to be fed to your stereo-capable display, depending on what it’s compatible with.
Note: If you turn on the Enable Dual SDI 3D Monitoring checkbox on the Settings tab of the Config
page, the DeckLink HD Extreme 3D will output full resolution 4:2:2 Y’CbCr for each eye.
When setting up a 3D-capable Resolve workstation, keep in mind that the dual video streams of 3D
projects make greater demands on disk bandwidth, media decoding via CPU or RED Rocket, and
effects processing via GPU.
On Linux systems, stereoscopic performance is similar to that of a qualified Mac Pro with the same
number of GPUs. Similarly to the Mac Pro, stereo is output via HD-SDI on a Blackmagic DeckLink HD
Extreme 3D card using either Side-by-Side or Line Mesh output.
Linux systems have greater GPU expandability, offering the possibility of greater stereoscopic
performance, and support for up to 4:4:4 RGB or XYZ monitoring at HD resolution for each eye..
Creating a Stereoscopic Project
Working on stereo in DaVinci Resolve requires very specific project setup. You can create the necessary
pair of stereoscopic sessions from an edited EDL by either preconforming two flattened media files,
one each for the left and right eyes, or by conforming two sets of discrete media files that have been
carefully organized. Either way, you can use the following procedure to create a stereoscopic project.
To create a stereoscopic project:
1. In the Browse page, create two Media Pool subfolders (one for each eye), and name
them “Left” and “Right.”
2. When importing the stereo media used by your project, place all left eye files in the
”Left” folder and all right eye media in the ”Right” folder.
Tip: Non-3D projects can be converted to 3D projects at any time, simply by adding the
second eye media in its own Media Pool sub-folder.
3. Open the Conform page, and create the default timeline in the Conform screen.
4. Now, load an EDL or use Pre-Conform to create a session, and you’ll be automatically
prompted to select one one of the Media Pool sub-folders you created in the first step.
Create two sessions, one using the media in the “Left” folder, and one using the media in
the “Right” folder.
5. Now, choose the session that uses the left-eye media, right-click anywhere within the
Conform timeline and choose Stereo Left Eye. That session is now the left-eye stereo-
identified session.
6. Select the session that uses the right-eye media, and similarly right-click in the Timeline
and choose Stereo Right Eye to make it the right-eye stereo-identified session.
At the end of this process, you have two matching stereo-identified sessions, and you’re ready to
begin grading.
Stereoscopic Grading