SPLICE HERE POSTS '3D SUN'
December 7, 2007

SPLICE HERE POSTS '3D SUN'

The project offers the first high definition 3D stereoscopic images of the Sun.

Splice Here handled offline/online 3D editing, visual effects, color correction and finishing for the project. Editor Carl Jacobs says the project was edited in DV 25 using Apple's Final Cut Pro 6. "We only went to high definition when we absolutely had to. A big reason for that was the fact that, for 3D, we were editing one 'eye' at a time, and only bring them together at the end. Handling two HD streams simultaneously would have been a slower process, so we performed all our testing at DV 25.

Jacobs also contributed cinematic animations of the Earth's magnetic field to complement more photorealistic representations of the spacecraft that were provided by NASA. Final Cut Pro's ProRes codec allowed him to store HD imagery at much smaller file sizes. "We were able to deal with huge uncompressed images in a much more economical manner, which saved us a huge amount of work."

To view a sample, CLICK HERE.