How to extract L & R eyes from a single Cineform file?

[Dan Coplan]

I recently shot 3D footage to a Cinedeck - two streams recording to a single Cineform file. How can I extract this single file with information for both eyes into separate L and R eye files?

I've opened the footage in First Light and ReMaster, but those programs only seem to create the types of files I'm trying to crack into two.

[Mike McCarthy]

I would set your output to Left, and then import your 3D file into any app (PPro, AE, AME, etc.) and export a regular 2D CF file. Then set the Cineform output to Right, and export again. That should give you separate exported files for left and right eye.

[Dan Coplan]

Thanks for your reply. That's what I actually ended up doing through QuickTime Player. And it worked, but it was really tedious going through 20 clips one-by-one, two files for each.

There must be an easier way to batch this stuff?

[David Newman]

In the PC versions of NeoXX there is a shell tool "StereoDeMux", you could put that in a script, it is lossless and very fast. We will be adding this feature to ReMaster/Mac soon.