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Afterwards, two new bins are created named Left and Right, containing the individual left- and right- eye clips that you’ve split apart.
Converting Mono Clips or an Entire Timeline to Stereo
Non-stereo clips (for which there are not separate left- and right-eye media files) can be converted into stereo clips either individually or throughout an entire timeline for one of two different reasons:
— You can convert non-stereo clips into stereo for use in a stereo project, so they output properly along with the rest of a stereo timeline, albeit without adjustable convergence or depth effects.
— If you want to grade an HDR and non-HDR version of your program at the same time, converting non-stereo clips to stereo makes it possible for you to a) manage two separate SDR and HDR grades for each clip in a timeline using the left- and right-eye channels, and b) output the SDR and HDR signals separately via your compatible Blackmagic Design interface’s left- and right-eye SDI outputs when you turn on the “Use dual outputs on SDI” checkbox in the Video Monitoring section of the Master Settings panel of the Project Settings.
1 Select one or more non-stereo clips in the Media Pool.
2 Right-click one of the selected clips and choose Convert to Stereo from the contextual menu.
Afterwards, that clip appears in the Media Pool as a Stereo 3D clip, and when edited into a timeline, can expose its controls in the 3D Stereo palette in the Color page.
If you have a timeline full of clips that you’ve just converted into stereo using the above procedure, you need to take the additional step of setting the Timeline to stereo in order to create stereo grades for each clip.
— Right-click a timeline in the Media Pool and choose Timelines > Set Timeline to Stereo.
For more information about using stereo timeline workflows for simultaneous HDR and SDR grading,
see Chapter 9, “Data Levels, Color Management, and ACES.”
Attaching Mattes to Stereo 3D Clips
If you have left- and right-eye mattes that need to be attached to stereo clips, the process works identically to importing mattes for regular clips, except that when you’ve selected a stereo 3D clip in the Media Pool, you have two matte import commands, “Add As Left Eye Matte,” and
“Add As Right Eye Matte.”