And... Back in 2009, Bastian and Tino used two DV cameras connected through 
Firewire and a BoinxTV layer to produce this 3D episode of Digital Upgrade:

http://www.digitalupgrade.de/show-47-3d/

I am sure we can dig up the BoinxTV layer used if someone is interested.

Best,

Oliver.

On 10.05.2011, at 07:56, Achim Breidenbach wrote:

> Hello Nathan,
> 
> we at Boinx know of this problem very well. Our BoinxTV customers always want 
> multiple cameras connected to one computer. The problem is, that the firewire 
> video stream is somewhat odd, so that two signals interfere with each other 
> on the bus. The only way we found to have two firewire cameras connected to 
> one computer is to have a second independed firewire bus. You may look up 
> some 3rd party hardware here on our Studio Equipment page in the "Video 
> Input" section. (e.g. for a MacBook a Sonnet FireWire ExpressCard does a good 
> job)
> 
> http://www.boinx.com/boinxtv/equipment/
> 
> best,
> 
> Achim Breidenbach
> Bonix Software
> 
> 
> On 10.05.2011, at 03:36, Nathan Sims wrote:
> 
>> On May 5, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Christopher Wright wrote:
>> 
>>>> QuickTime doesn't seem to directly support this, but I'm hoping that QC 
>>>> might... I would like to take 2 camera video feeds and combine them to 
>>>> produce "3D" output when viewed with red/blue glasses. Would there be a 
>>>> way in QC to do this?
>>> 
>>> google quartz composer anaglyph
>>> http://paulbourke.net/texture_colour/anaglyph/   is the first hit, and 
>>> there are likely to be other good resources as well.
>>> 
>>> Your biggest problem might be getting 2 camera feeds working.
>> 
>> How right you are! Getting two camera feeds working is my stumbling block. I 
>> have the basic composition working, and can use it successfully with two 
>> prerecorded input movies. But placing two Video Input patches in the 
>> composition, only one camera gets activated, regardless of how I set the 
>> input selector of the video patches. For this test, I'm using two external 
>> Firewire iSights with a Belkin Firewire hub. Note: I can use one of the 
>> external iSights and the internal iSight of my MacBook simultaneously, but 
>> the video feeds of these two cameras are too different for stereo viewing to 
>> work well.
>> 
>> So, is there any possible way to get two external iSight video feeds working?
>> 
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