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Alignment/Geometry

2. Luminance/Colorimetry

3. Depth of Field

4. Reflections, Polarization, Flares

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What is it?

What is it?

Improper vertical alignment of left and right images

Left image is brighter, darker or of a different hue than right image

What is it?

Focus not matching in the left and right eye

What is it?

What causes it?

What causes it?

What causes it?

Reflections on shiny objects not matching the left and right images

Camera/lens not matched properly in production

Cameras not matched and/or beam splitter diffraction

Different aperture settings/non-matching lens focal values

What causes it? How to fix it?

Beam splitter polarization, camera angles Cannot be fixed without significant postproduction work

How to fix it?

How to fix it?

How to fix it?

Geometry realignment

Color adjustment

Cannot be fixed without significant postproduction work or blurring the focused image to match

5. Contamination

6. Sync/Genlock

7. Full Reverse Stereo

8. Hyperconvergence

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What is it?

Dust, water, dirt or other particles in one of the images

What is it?

What is it?

Left and right images are not time accurate

Left and right images are swapped

What is it?

What causes it? How to fix it?

What causes it? How to fix it?

What causes it? How to fix it?

Objects are too close to the viewers eye to be viewed comfortably

Challenging environment, lenses/mirror not cleaned thoroughly Dust removal techniques

Non-genlocked cameras or editing error Sync: Re-edit. Genlock issues cannot be fixed without significant post-production work

Data management or editing error Swap left and right images

What causes it?

Improper camera settings or object going beyond the safe 3D zone

How to fix it?

Push convergence back, or compress the 3D space

9. Hyperdivergence

10. Edge Mismatch

11. Partial Reverse Stereo

12. Depth Mismatch

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What is it?

Objects are too far back to be viewed comfortably

What is it?

What causes it?

Left and right eye side edges not matching, either due to the addition of floating windows or beam splitter box

What is it?

Some of the layers in a 3D composition are reversed left and right

Elements within a 3D composition are not in the correct depth to the scene

What is it?

Improper camera settings or objects going beyond the safe 3D zone

How to fix it?

What causes it? How to fix it?

Remove floating windows

3D compositing error Swap incorrect layers in compositing. Cannot be fixed on the final image without significant post-production work

What causes it? How to fix it?

3D compositing error Fix composition. Cannot be fixed on the final image without significant post-production work

How to fix it?

Pull convergence forward or compress the 3D space

13. Visual Mismatch

14. 2D to 3D Ratio

15. High Contrast

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What is it?

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What is it?
Too many shots in 2D to qualify the show as genuine 3D

An element deep inside or far out of the window in high contrast with its environment, creating a double image on the display

What causes it?

Refresh rate of the display device/partial separation of left and right images by the 3D glasses

What is it?

How to fix it?

Elements within a 3D composition that do not match left and right

Reduce contrast, change convergence or compress the 3D space

What causes it? How to fix it?

3D compositing error Fix composition. Cannot be fixed on the final image without significant post-production work

What causes it? How to fix it?

Lack of 3D content Replace non-stereo content with stereo content

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