Projection Design

“Projection Design” offers a hands-on approach to the design, planning and execution of digital projections in a variety of performance spaces by using a combination of industry standard and open source research software tools. This blog will serve as an online text for the developing book, "Technical Ecstasy" and link for the web-readings, online tutorials,software resources historical examples, video art and performance examples and essential class communications for Projection Design class taught by Patrick Pagano

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Hap Codec

Hap is a new video codec that is designed for digital video artists. The goal with MAC NJ’s is achieving higher-performance video playback in OpenGL based applications such as VDMX.  Instead of using a Central Processor Unit to decode video frames. Hap compresses image data diretly to your computer’s graphics card to perform hardware-accelerated ( decompression) of movies during playback.
There are also three different Hap codecs to choose from: Hap offers the lowest data rates for playing back the most video clips at a time, Hap Alpha is avery similar to Hap with the support of transparency, and Hap Q offers improved image quality at a higher data rate. Reminds me of HD quality. Movies that use Hap Code will play in QuickTime.


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