Editing 3D (interlaced) footage in Sony Vegas Movie Studio or Sony Vegas Pro

I am opening another thread related to editing interlaced footage, based on Joseph Clark's comment:

I agree. Moreover, 60p (50p) full HD versions should be included as well. It's about time to do that.
Anyway, I am also projecting the shows on two passive projectors, so for me it is not a problem to show 60p full HD side-by-side.
By the way, is there any other standard which includes 60i/50i or 60p/50p full HD video (per eye) which can be played by 3D BD players or similar devices? AVCHD?

Now I have one question regarding editing 60i (50i) footage.
What should I do in Vegas editors in order to edit 60i footage and stereoscopically adjust the picture? I have tried several different approaches, but I'm always getting problems with moving objects. It seems that Sony editor does not take into account interlaced property of the clip during stereoscopic adjustment, so it mixes fields and therefore makes garbage out of the clip. I hope that I messed something and that it was my fault.

Yes, I know how to prepare interlaced footage (without deinterlacing left and right clips!) and edit it stereoscopically (including stereoscopic adjustments) in Sony Pro/MS, virtually without loosing video quality. However, such path engages VirtualDub and Avisynth scripts.

Maybe I did not read it properly. I've got an impression that it was 1080i squeezed side-by-side version of stereoscopic video, but maybe it isn't.

Ahhh, that was the case. I want to keep the highest quality during and after editing, so I don't want to deinterlace the footage by blending or interpolating it. It seems that I'll keep my way of editing. I'll soon upload some results on our server.

Suppose that you need Edius for the task?!?
In this case I'll rather produce two independedant streams and wait for better times... :-)

This is great news! I'll try it immediately. Since it is used internally, it probably does not matter what kind of deinterlacer we choose.
Still I can't understand why you, as the user, have to choose "denterlacing" if it has to be done internally by default on interlacing footage.

Concerning editing interlaced footage - it is true that you can do it. Thanks! The only drawback is subtle decrease of sharpness.

I also did not manage to achieve skipping renderning interlaced footage which is not modified.

I thought about "subtle decrease of sharpness" when comparing to alternative way of editing the footage (converting it into fields, first). Such editing does not change the apparent resolution at all (you preserve pristine sharpness/resolution), while "interlaced editing" adds slight fuzziness (nut much, though).

The workflow is the following (for Vegas Pro):

- convert interlaced footage into fields and put left over the right one
- import it into Vegas Pro and select progressive Over/under half-size configuration
- edit it and save it in the same format

Now we've got the final video. The remaining steps are the following:

- Make interlaced files
- Deinterlace them

The quality is stunning.

For Vegas MS (I have version 11), in the first step you have to convert interlaces footage into fields and put them in side-by-side configuration. The drawback is that you edit vertically squeezed picture. However, the final quality is still perfect.

I'll try to make a simple SW which will produce all the necessary Avisynth files which will be used by VirtualDub for conversion of formats.

I was always using 24p/25p video for my stereo projects (was using pairs of Panasonics GH1 and GH2). I was never even thinking about using 50i/60i footage until I met TD1/HMZ1.
After some preliminary tests I decided that using 60i option on HMZ1U isn’t such a bad idea at all. Here is a link to the original two clips in 24p and 60i modes and the resulting clip made in Xvid codec. The resulting clip is in 60p mode. Please, play it with Bino player or Stereoscopic player (switch deinterlace OFF in stereoscopic player!):

http://we.tl/a7yJXxs0T7

The final clip (20 seconds long) was made in Vegas Pro 12, the project was 60i full side-by-side (as suggested by Wolfgang), deinterlace method is set to “Interpolate” (also suggested by Wolfgang). The only task before editing was that I first deinterlaced footage which was used for slow-motion. After editing was finished, I deinterlaced the footage to obtain the final 60p clip. Both deinterlacings were made automatically (I wrote dedicated SW).
In my opinion, the result is very good. I like 60i->60p mode much more than 24p (when played by Bino or Stereoscopic Player). There were no filters applied to the clips, only “disable resample” was used.
Just on purpose, there is a star-chart on the video and the girl is wearing red T-shirt (both are problematic on interlaced video).

By the way, I never had a success by importing separate left/right files into Vegas Pro or Movie Studio, since sooner or later there were some artefacts appearing on the video (compression blocks, disappearing one of the views for some frames, etc.). Therefore I always import the footage in side-by-side format (full HD per eye).

Does anybody know if there is a way to achieve fluid editing of full HD side-by-side stereo project on Vegas Pro or Movie Studio?

Did you mean to edit in anaglyph mode and before rendering to change it again into full side-by-side? At least I am doing it so. I envy you for not having any problems with separate 2x1080p50 footage. It's far from fluid in my case.
The situation is better (more fluid) if using freeware Cineform codec (instead of UT), but I have no idea how to correct false colours (red shirt becomes orange). I tried with different encoder settings (with or without BT709, RGB), but I could not get close enough to "accurate" colours obtained with UT codec. Namely, I don't want to colour correct every single clip in my video.

Thanks!
I'll try with different project settings and find out the best ones for my footage.

Thank you Wolfgang! It seems that I stumbled upon the same problem. I am just wondering if there is any other way how to change those colo(u)rs.

Just to explain to others what;s happening (if somebody else knows what can be done), there is pdf file which can be downloaded from WeTransfer:

http://we.tl/EnQJ1EjSWu

I've finally managed to get similar colours of exported Vegas clip to the uncompressed one when importing it into VirtualDub and applied some filters.

The exported Vegas clip by CineForm codec should be opened in VirtualDub. In Video -> Video Color Depth, you have to choose the appropriate colour formats:

Decompression format = 4:4:4 planar YCbCr (YV24)
Output format = 24 bit RGB (888)

You don't have to choose any filter.

I tried to export the clip with uncompressed, UT422, UT RGB and Xvid codec. Uncompressed and UT RGB gave correct colours in VirtualDub, Media Player Classic and Bino. UT 422 and XVid codec gave false colours (orange) only in Media Player Classic, in Bino & VirtualDub it was OK.
Edited by crunchy3d - 2/12/13 at 1:18pm