How to see more immersive videos.
There are three major ways to view 3D videos on Lume Pad:
LeiaPlayer: For local video files
LeiaTube: For video streams from YouTube, Twitch, and other services
LeiaFlix: For renting Hollywood movies in 3D
LeiaPlayer lets you play back a variety of 2D and 3D filetypes on your Lume Pad's storage in 3D View Mode. To learn more, go to the LeiaPlayer page.
To learn about which filetypes are supported, go to the Supported Filetypes in LeiaPlayer page.
LeiaTube is a service that lets you take an online video stream from your favorite platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, DailyMotion, and more and have them automatically convert to 3D. You can use 2D video streams, SBS 3D video streams, and even VR180/360 video streams.
LeiaFlix makes it easy to rent high-quality Hollywood movies on the Lume Pad. Simply make a LeiaFlix account, add a payment method, and voila! You can easily rent a huge variety of movies from studios like Warner Bros. and Universal.
Everything you need to know about 3D videos on Leia devices.
Sharing 3D Video is easy! You can simply send the LVF or SBS video file to the other person using any communication platform that supports sending video (and doesn't compress the video in the case of LVF) and it will be able to be played back on the recipient's Lume Pad.
If you'd like to share it to many people, you can upload it to YouTube or another video platform that's supported by LeiaTube in SBS format. If you want the video to work for users of legacy 3D devices and VR headsets as well as Lume Pad, share SBS video to YouTube. Convert from LVF to SBS using FFMPEG To convert your LVF video to SBS, you must follow the following steps:
Install FFMPEG on your computer. This will be different depending on which operating system your computer uses, but you can Google how to do so. Using a package manager like Chocolatey on Windows or Homebrew on MacOS can make it much easier.
Run the scripts below with the LVF file you want to convert by utilizing the example command in the following line:
sudo sh /filepathOfScript/lvf2sbs.sh /filepathOfLeiaCamVideo/nameOfVideo.mp4
Link to scripts:
NOTES: Sudo isn’t required but is probably a good idea. You may need to add the script to your PATH variable if you have any issues and didn't use a package manager. You should also ensure you're running the command inside the directory you want the constructed file to end up in. To make it easy, you should probably have the script and original LVF in the same folder as you want the output files to be. The instructions for lvf2sbs and lvf2lr are the same, with the only difference being one gives you a constructed SBS, the other gives you the left video, right video, and audio all as separate files.
In most cases, editing 3D video for Lume Pad is largely the same as editing 2D video. However, there are some caveats.
Firstly, you must ensure you're working with SBS video, and not with LVF video. You can learn more about how to convert from LVF to SBS in Sharing 3D Video.
One major consideration is that Lume Pad has a 16:10 ratio. If you'd like to make use of full screen on Lume Pad, you may want to create a 16:10 video. However, 16:9 and wider ratios will play on Lume Pad with horizontal black bars above and below your content.
There are two kinds of video you can edit into Lightfield video that can play on Lume Pad:
2D Video
3D SBS Video
For 2D video, you have one major consideration which will affect decisions you make: will you want to keep the output in 2D and have it converted on-the-fly in LeiaPlayer? Or will you want to convert the finished product (or the original clips) into SBS?
If you wish to play it back on Lume Pad using Instant 2D to 3D conversion in LeiaPlayer, then the process is identical to editing a regular 2D video.
If you wish to adjust the depth of the conversion, make manual edits to the 3D views, or use the 2D clips as part of a larger 3D video, then you must first do as much editing as you can to the 2D video until the clips look the way you want, then convert the videos to SBS 3D using a third party tool.
Working in SBS is the recommended method for creating 3D video on Lume Pad.
Luckily, most major NLE's fully support 3D SBS video. These include:
Once you have your SBS master of your video, you can use it as-is everywhere in the Leia ecosystem.
There are three major ways to create 3D video:
Shoot video with a camera
Render video using a software tool
Capture video inside real-time software
You can use a variety of 2D and 3D cameras to create 3D videos. We'll list them here from highest potential for quality to lowest.
The best way to capture 3D video is to build a custom stereo rig using two or more high-quality cinema cameras. Doing this is difficult, but can yield the highest quality results. The distance between the sensors, the accuracy of the synchronization, the precision of the calibration, and of course the quality of the sensors and optics all play a part in the quality of the outcome.
You should expect to use a 3rd party software tool to stitch, synchronize, and align the images. You should edit the two videos into a single SBS file for viewing on Lume Pad or editing.
Purpose-built stereo 3D cameras have a wide range of potential quality, even within units of the same model. While there are many different models, we recommend the Sony HDR-TD Series Camcorders for 3D video if you can find it. For subjects you're shooting from a closer distance, the RED Hydrogen One is also considered one of the best 3D video cameras available today.
One of the best ways to create 3D video is with LeiaCam, which shoots LVF video on the Lume Pad.
To learn more about LeiaCam, check out the LeiaCam page.
You can also use a variety of normal cameras to shoot 2D video to convert to 3D later. Your smartphone, a DSLR, a mirrorless camera, or even a cinema camera can all be used. You can even use a webcam!
You can convert from 2D to 3D in real-time in the LeiaPlayer app.
To learn more about instant 2D to 3D conversion, go to 2D to 3D Conversion.
To Learn more about professional quality 2D to 3D conversion, go to Editing 3D Video.
There are a variety of software tools that let you render out a stereo 3D video.
You can use plugins to render out an SBS video in Maya.
Some creators compose SBS videos in other apps using custom camera configurations.
There are plugins and/or built-in features of some game engines that allow you to render your game scene in SBS, and you can use that to render a 3D video.
You can also capture 3D video from inside some of your favorite real-time apps or games on Windows PC.
You can actually capture 3D videos from many popular PC games using a 3rd party tool that gains access to the graphics engine's depth buffer like SuperDepth3D. Try these tools yourself to experiment and see the best ways to capture 3D videos inside your favorite PC games. SuperDepth3D supports over 100 of the most popular AAA PC games of all time. Here is SuperDepth3D's game compatibility list.