Ask Slashdot: Tips On 2D To Stereo 3D Conversion?

An anonymous reader writes "I'm interested in converting 2D video to Stereoscopic 3D video — the Red/Cyan Anaglyph type in particular (to ensure compatibility with cardboard Anaglyph glasses). Here's my questions: Which software(s) or algorithms can currently do this, and do it well? Also, are there any 3D TVs on the market that have a high quality 2D-to-3D realtime conversion function in them? And finally, if I were to try and roll my own 2D-to-3D conversion algorithm, where should I start? Which books, websites, blogs or papers should I look at?" I'd never even thought about this as a possibility; now I see there are some tutorials available; if you've done it, though, what sort of results did you get? And any tips for those using Linux?

Special FX

[damaki]

A friend of mine used to work for a French special effects company and he had to work on this. He told me that this is basically a world of pain and it produces great piles of smocking shit. It just sucks, even when done properly by highly trained people. Can you imagine making 3D out of a 2D tree? Make every background 3D or properly cut out the character to get the desired effect?
It sucks, it's mostly manual, get over it.

this can be done easily with ffmpeg and imagemagic

[nitrofurano]

this can be done easily with ffmpeg and imagemagick - you need two video sources, and from a ffmpeg script, extracting a picture sequence from both videos, one sequence from the left camera, and another from the right - with a bash script using imagemagick you will separate the colour channels from each frame: red from one camera, and green/blue from another - and having the separation done, you will join with imagemagick again the red channel picture frame from one and green/blue from another, into a new picture sequence, and when you have this sequence ready, you convert it into video again with ffmpeg - try googling for ffmpeg and imagemagick instruction arguments when coding this bash script