Ever since the news came out about YouTube experimenting with 3D video making, many users have started making their own. If you would like to join in the fun and maybe show YouTube the potential of the feature, simply (or not) make one and tag it with yt3d:enable=true, before leaving the link as a comment on YouTube’s blog.
It seems like FlippyCat has done it right!
To try your hands at making 3D videos, YouTube has some basic instructions for you:
- Use two cameras arranged like a pair of eyes
- Start both cameras recording simultaneously
- In your video-editing program, place the footage for the left and right eyes together in the frame side by side, with the right eye on the left and the left eye on the right
- Upload your video!
- Edit your videos tags and add yt3d:enable=true. If video is widescreen, add yt3d:aspect=16:9
You might also want to learn the meaning of some tags from Pete, the Googler who has been spending 20% of his time at work developing the 3D player:
- yt3d:enable=true Enables the view mode
- yt3d:aspect=3:4 Sets the aspect of the encoded video
- yt3d:swap=true Swaps the left and right sources. You may need to add this to videos when the player with fixed anaglyph modes ships
- yt3d:left=0_0.1_0.5_0.9 and yt3d:right=0.5_0.1_1_0.9 These tags are very provisional and most useful for fixing up old videos. They set the source area for each eye as pairs of coordinates x1_y1_x2_y2. The scale of these coordinates is 0,0 for the top left down to 1,1 for the bottom right
YouTube might have made 3D video making sound easy but I must warn you – get ready for hours of debugging and possibly, migraines!
