Systems and methods may provide for utilizing stereoscopic inputs to take advantage of a codec to improve encoding and processing efficiency. The left and right channels of the stereoscopic inputs provide inputs for views of the same image frames. The frames may be offset by the parallax effect. The systems and methods utilize similarities between the left and right channels to allow motions (i.e., motion vectors) related to an object in the scene for one view to be spatially translated for the other view based on known differences in distance and geometry to avoid the necessity to encode and process both channel views. The system and method thereby improves the encoding and processing efficiency of motion processes such as motion vectors, motion sampling, macroblock sampling, edge sampling and the like.