Using Igloo Encode
If you have created a piece of Igloo 360 content, we recommend outputting it from Adobe Premier Pro (or alternative video creation tools) in the most lossless codec possible.
These codecs, such as HEVC, or Apple ProRes will play using our Igloo Warper, however they will not play as well as our preffered codec HAP. Igloo Recommends the HAP codec and a .mov container for any videos running through Igloo software. Where this is not possible though, Igloo recommends outputting in any lossless format, and transcoding it to HAP using Igloo Encode.
This is due to the HAP codec using the graphics card (GPU) to process the movie rather than the CPU. This stops bottlenecks occuring occurring when playing large resolution videos, which is all Igloo Structures play. Unfortunetly .
While aftermarket plugins are available for the big video-editing tools, the HAP codec is not often supported as a direct output from most video creation packages, so we created our own Drop & Go piece of software to convert any video to HAP.
Igloo Encode should be included as part of the IglooShowroom.zip, and can be installed using it’s own Wizard. Once installed, simply load it using the Start Menu, or Desktop shortcut if you created one. comes installed on all IMPs as standard
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Drop your content onto the Grey window, choose an Output Directory, and then click Go!
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This will create a copy of your movie, converted to the HAP codec. There are advanced Options if you wish to explore them, or if you’ve found the conversion to contain errors.