Make layer immune to stereo rendering

[keyframe]

I'm making a red/blue stereo animation.

Is there a way to specify a layer to be immune from stereo rendering?
Like a background layer.

Thanks.

[dueyftw]

Your not going to like my answer. You will need AS pro and Photoshop or Gimp.

Do a 2 pass render. On the first pass render out the red/blue animation. Then bring the video back in to AS with stereo off then render a second time.

Normally I would be telling you to render out as Quicktime png millions of colors+ but the stereo removes the alpha channel when rendering. So you need to render out to png pictures and manually use the magic wand tool to remove the black background in each frame then bring them back with the import image sequence script.

If anyone got a better way, please tell.

Dale

[keyframe]

I tried assembling the scene in Final Cut Express. But as you mention exporting stereo with alpha doesn't work.

[dueyftw]

As I think about it Gimp would be better than Photoshop. You can set any color to alpha, change the black to alpha.
Still a ton of work.

Dale

[funksmaname]

ive never done this - but if you use photoshop can't you just put a blending mode onto the top layer? (overlay/screen whatever?)