Left eye, Right eye: The preview for stereoscopic content can be set to show only its left or right eye view. This helps keep things simple at times when a stereoscopic preview is unnecessary. Editing in these views is carried out as for a 2D movie.

Side by side: This mode displays the frames for both eyes horizontally adjacent to each other, with the left eye on the left and the right eye on right. When editing, no stereoscopic equipment is needed.

Differential: Differential mode is good for detecting the ‘depth’ of an image more easily, and especially for revealing areas of ‘zero depth’. Differential mode show a 50% gray for areas where identical information is being presented to both eyes; a color difference is shown if the areas are not identical. If 2D material is added to a stereoscopic 3D timeline in differential mode, since the same content is shown to both eyes, the image will be a uniform gray.

Checkerboard: Checkerboard mode breaks the image up into a 16 x 9 checkerboard pattern. The ‘white’ squares of the checkerboard contain the view from one eye, the ‘black’ squares the other. Checkerboard mode provides a quick check on the ways the left and right frames differ across the whole image.

3D TV (Side by Side): Use this mode to preview stereoscopic content on a 3D TV display or with a 3D projector by connecting it as a second monitor. This obviates the need for a special graphics card or additional hardware. Configure the second display to operate in its native resolution, and to extend your desktop, not just mirror it. Make sure the input format is side- by-side.

Anaglyph: An Anaglyph stereoscopic preview is suitable for viewing with red-cyan stereoscopic glasses, with no additional hardware support required. Pinnacle Studio’s anaglyphic display works well even for images with a lot of red, thanks to a method very similar to the ‘optimized anaglyphs’ technique.

3D Vision: This stereoscopic mode is available with many NVidia graphics cards after the 3D Vision feature has been