

“- i” is where you set the pattern for the image sequence naming (where the %02d means that zeros will be padded until the length of the string is 2 i.e 01…20…30… and so on. When using your own media, you can change these settings as needed: The rest of this is based on the tips from,Īnd here I’ve adapted the example ffmpeg command to instead export to HAP,įfmpeg -r 30 -f image2 -s 1920x1080 -i test%02d.tif -vcodec hap -pix_fmt rgba test.mov I was recently asked over email if there is a good way to go from an image sequence to a HAP movie file directly – this can be done easily from the command line using FFmpeg.įirst make sure to install FFmpeg with HAP using these instructions: Usually a setting of 2 or 4 is appropriate.


For the best playback results, make sure to use an SSD or other high speed drive.The HAP codecs are optimized for low CPU usage during playback, at the expense of quality and file size, to handle extreme situations that traditional codecs can not handle. Video codecs are typically a trade off between quality, file size and playback efficiency.On the HAP website are instructions for transcoding media files using our free batch exporter, QuickTime, FFMPEG and other conversion utilities:
