Puppet Rick Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 I am new to A:M and hopeful that this is just user error, but searching the forums for things like +anaglyph +purple and +stereo +magenta are not showing me any posts. I find that any time I turn on the stereo options (for anaglyphs), my movies come out GROSSLY tinted purple or magenta. I do anaglyphs in Photoshop and other software, and only see the expected cyan and red fringes. A:M adds a DEEP purple tint regardless of whether I set it to PURE, GRAY or COLOR for the color. Oh, I am setting it for red/blue, of course. I am using an older version (admitting I bought it and never was wise enough to make the time to learn it) so maybe that is the nature of the old versions? I do not remember seeing purple movies on the Hash site when I bought this. It is the version with the Yeti (11.0t). Anyway, I am hopeful that this is either user error or a problem with the version I am using. Anyone have any ideas? Oh, if it helps, I am using Windows Vista (and it crashes a lot, so no, I do not recommend using this version on Vista) but even in XP things were purple. Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 19, 2007 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 19, 2007 The deeply colored version is what "Pure" is supposed to be, but if "gray" isn't getting you a more conventionally colored anaglyph something is wrong. V11 wasn't written for vista but I doubt that's the trouble. V11.0 was dropped pretty quickly for V11.1, but I'm not sure either one ran on the Yeti disk. My 11.1 runs on the Orangutang disk. different thing to try: -help>reset all -uninstalling and reinstalling. -try v11.1, available on upgrade server. as a workaround you could render to "cross-eye" and combine the separate images in Photoshop as you are accustomed to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 19, 2007 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 19, 2007 It also occurs to me that V11 had a somewhat confusing way of choosing between the render settings you made in the preferences tab and the render settings you made on the camera. It's possible you are setting one and unknowingly rendering with the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyvern Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 It definately sounds like you are using the "pure" option. You want the... er... other one... the gray option whatever it is called. The pure option is... icky. There is 3D stuff I've seen that has that look. I've never cared for that type. Side Note Years and years ago I shot photos at my sisters wedding in 3D. The actual photos were shot on slide film, developed, cut and put in special mounts with a battery powered stereo lighted viewer, but I also scanned and photoshopped some of these shots to be printed for the 3D wedding album I gave to them. I had to carefully tweak the colors in photoshop to get them to match the red blue glasses and to also adjust the "grayscale" so they had enough contrast. I generally like to render stereo from AM as two separate full color images so I have total control over the "depth" and contrast using photoshop. Sliding one "layer" in photoshop left or right changes how far out of the "frame" 3D objects stick out. You can do this in AM of course but it is faster and more flexible doing it "by hand" in my opinion. I even have a 3D template in Photoshop with the hue saturation and levels adjustment layers in place so I just drop them on to new images. I don't like full color anaglyph, I aways convert to "gray" and colorize. -vern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puppet Rick Posted October 19, 2007 Author Share Posted October 19, 2007 It is fixed! As robcat noted, there are two places to set the stereo rendering options. They did not match, and the settings in the render to file dialog seem to override the ones I set for the camera. I made a classic "beginner's mistake" I suppose. Ooh, another mistake I made is that you are right, it is the Orangutan, not a Yeti. I ran an update that turned it into something else when I first installed (a witch, I think) but that failed miserably, so I went back to the orangutan. I'm so glad you helped because redering as a stero pair then using Photoshop will not work in this case since I am creating a movie (I hope) rather than a single image. Otherwise, I absolutely agree that Photoshop creates much better anaglyphs due to the increased control. Anyway, thanks so much. I'll pay it forward and help some other newbie once I learn a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 19, 2007 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 19, 2007 hey, don't miss the Stereoscopic AniJam (anaglyphic version) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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