Jun 012012
 


Notice in this video that my new homemade Bloggie microphone windscreen doesn’t seem to muffle the sound, which is good, since I can just leave it attached to the camera.
What is that sound in the background, though? The refrigerator? My computer?

Getting only one or two video views is no longer fun for me (Jim and/or Janice?). I don’t see any way around this problem other than to shoot half nude women at the mall and chicks in bikinis at the beach. If teenage girls, Orange County housewives, Los Angeles ladies, Hollywood hopefuls, beautiful babes, young, old and everything in between, can’t generate enough video views to keep my interest going, then it’s pretty much over for me.
This is also a good thing for Janice, since she will save lots of money if I don’t have to go look for another more expensive hobby like most men have.
Thank God it doesn’t take much to make me happy.

Watch this video in 2D or 3D by clicking on the “3D” button under the video and selecting your options, e.g., “Turn off 3D”.
If you are using red/cyan anaglyph glasses, be sure to select “Red/Cyan” then “Optimized (Dubois)”.

Mar 012012
 

Janice Maddy threatened me today at lunch, and I’m a little freaked out about it. I’m hoping she will watch this video and help me understand exactly what she meant, but I’m sure I will hear about it later, too, oh yeah, baby. She said she was going to take pictures of me and do “something” with them. It hasn’t been a great day, as you can see in this video. I went to the Dollar store to get five rubber duckies and they only had one rubber ducky, so I’m unable to do my stereoscopic 3D demo showing the Designated Near Point row of rubber duckies gag. I didn’t really have anything interesting in the 2 to 15 feet range to make an interesting 3D video, so I just threw an old quilt over a home-made backdrop frame that I made, and set it off to one side. Not very exciting, but it’s a perfectly cubic illusion with a .8 inch stereo base. And who says we need 2.5 inches between our lenses to make it look “normal”? Normal shnormal, hokus pokus… yet another one of a bazillion stereoscopic myths.

Sep 202011
 

Watch this video in 2D or 3D. Viewing options are in the bottom of the media player.

Also uploaded to 3D Feed: http://www.3df33d.tv/node/3527
and 3Dtuber: http://3dtuber.com/video/9D68AK178XKA/Janice8217s-Feet

A short speed-vlog, starring Janice and her feet, while she was watching a Walton’s rerun on TV. Testing my AviSynth and VirtualDub editing process with the Sony Bloggie 3D MP4 file. As soon as I’m sure that my editing process is stable, I’ll share the filters and tell more about the process. I had to locate old filters that I originally used almost 10 years ago, when I first started experimenting with stereoscopic 3D video.
This is also my first video using my monopod with the Bloggie. It stops up and down movements, but it doesn’t help with the side-by-side sway… ending up with a “rock the boat” sort of effect, LOL. :)

Thanks,
Roger Maddy
Blog: http://rogermaddy.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rogermaddy

Sep 142011
 

This video was also uploaded to my http://3dtuber.com/user/rogermaddy account and my http://www.3df33d.tv/node/3492 account.

Watch this video in 2D or 3D. Choose your poison. ;)
My first 3D talking head vlog with my new Sony Bloggie 3D camera. Lots of strange issues with the camera, but all (or most) seem solvable. The native file crashes Adobe After Effects during rendering, so I first had to convert the file to AVI with a freeware program called “MP4Cam2AVI” and VirtualDub. What else is new, eh? If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, ya know… ;)

Thanks,
Roger Maddy
Blog: http://rogermaddy.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rogermaddy