Science! Anyway, I was recently doing an inventory of our gear and realized that with the 5D2’s shoot-video-in-disguise and the HF100’s small size, I didn’t have any real use for our two RCA Small Wonder cameras. We bought them as quick little things to mess around with anyway (and they were new enough at the time that Kim got interviewed in the Wall Street Journal!) so now that they’re just sitting in a box, I looked for a fun experiment that would put them both to use. The answer: Stereoscopic 3D!

Obviously we will need another audio solution, so I will likely plug a mic into the HF100 and boom with it, but syncing sound is not going to be too bad, since we’ll be using a slate anyway to make sure the two video devices are matched up. Then we’ll either need an Avid/FCP plugin that will do the color channels for the two video layers, or to come up with our own red/blue solution. I honestly haven’t done a lot of research in that area, but from what I’ve found there are plenty of resources out there.

I found a supplier of anaglyphic 3D glasses (the red/blue ones) for $.25-.35 apiece, or nice ones for around $4. If we screen the project anywhere like Channel101, I would be happy to drop $50 on 150 glasses to show off the work.

First step: Building the side-by-side mount. To Home Depot!