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Case study: Love letter to skating - VR180 stereoscopic post-production workflow

Author(s)

Andrew Woods | Curtin University HIVE
Daniel Adams | Curtin University HIVE
Cassandra Edwards | Curtin University HIVE
Kerreen Ely-Harper | Curtin University - MCASI
Andrea Rassell | Curtin University HIVE

Abstract

In 2024, the VR180 3D short film “Love Letter to Skating” was produced as part of a Curtin University HIVE Summer Internship project conducted by Curtin University student Cassandra Edwards. The film topically explores Cass’s fascination with skating since her childhood years.  The location for the shoot was Hyde Park, a beautiful inner-city park with extensive gardens and large over-hanging trees in Perth, Western Australia. The production was filmed using a Canon R5C camera fitted with a Canon Dual Fisheye lens. This particular paper focuses on the stereoscopic post-production workflow. All stereoscopic content filmed natively with two lens cameras with have some level of stereoscopic alignment errors. In the post-production stage the native dual-fisheye 8K footage from the camera was converted to equirectangular format using the Canon EOS VR Utility software. The equirectangular VR180 3D footage was then rectified using Stereoscopic Movie Maker V2 software from Masuji Suto. The rectified footage was then imported into Adobe Premiere where it was edited and combined with sound, music and graphics for the final production.  Computer graphics were composited into the final film at the correct depth within Premiere. The final production premiered at the MINA 2024 – the 13^th International Mobile Innovation Screening and Smartphone Film Festival November 8^th 2024.