[RED Hydrogen One Questions & Answers] TheMactrix:
Hi ... this is a little late and I may not have it down pat... but I have some data. I bought a new RHO cheap...and it has not come yet... but I have been researching things.

I found a post on YouTube...

Michael Johnston

1 year ago

3840x2160 are the largest dimensions. To upload h4v video to YouTube like this you just change the file name from .h4v to .sbs as far as still images go I am not sure if that is possible. The h4v format works with a specific screen made by a company called Leia. It uses nanoparticles somehow and without the screen you don't get the effect. Of course the screen technology is not specific to hydrogen, it seems Leia wants to make it available more widely. The Hydrogen One is just the first device to employ it.

This allows you to upload a side-by-side video. Also, there are 2 video streams that are combined to make the 3D video that results. These videos however are not simply 2 streams... they are basically 4 streams with 2 more streams being interpolated from the existing 2 streams.... this is to support the Leia light filed display and the way it works.

Obviously, a developer somewhere has the software to convert content... but with the RHO being abandonware... both as hardware and software... chances are good that we will never see this software for purchase or release. It is industrial Movie publication type software I am sure... and I would not have any idea where to even get it.

The programs in the RHO... the ones for downloading games and such ... are supposedly still open... at least the game one... but the sharing aspect I hear is kaput! I see that Leia does have ... if you are a developer... a beta software that you can get that transfers between formats into their Lightfield sharing site. I think you have to be a developer...and it will be commercial software as well... in terms of being a development tool. It is called "Lightfield Studio"...

Lightfield Studio - Developer Docs

Bring your videos to life by converting them into Lightfield videos optimized for LitByLeia devices.

docs.leialoft.com

I think it goes both ways.... MP4 to the MP4 H4V variant... and then back to normal video.

Lightfield Studio: Beta Version has three core features:

Orbital Content Conversion

Stereo Content Conversion

2D Content Conversion

Input Filetypes Supported:

3D SBS MP4: A 3D video in an SBS format appended with _2x1.mp4 at the end of the filename.

H4V: A file extension used in the RED ecosystem for 3D video files.

Export Filetype:

Quad Lightfield: Your converted output file will be an MP4 video in the Quad 4V Lightfield format, with _2x2.mp4 appended to the end of the filename.

For pictures and videos that you want to share as H4V check out the beta software "Lightfield Image Tools".

H4V Image tools for RED Hydrogen One

arch Hare Software Ltd. 85-87 Bayham Street Camden Town, London, NW1 0AG, United Kingdom

March Hare Software LLC. 200 Broadhollow Road, Suite 207, Melville, NY 11747, United States

March Hare Software UG. Europadamm 4, 41460 Neuss, Germany

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email hydrogen@4vmail.com

It will populate the metadata on your exported H4V clips and will also add a watermark. It will output your 3D pics... as one image with side-by-side.

This is beta software...and runs under MacOS. For now it is command line driven... and it is beta. I don't know if this software will ever come out of beta or not. It would be nice if the author is able to do it. He says he will sell this software to others when it is done.

The magic behind the H4V format is hooked to the RHO screen by Leia. Without the physics of the display... you cannot directly output the file to a projector. If you can convert it to a SBS image then you can process it to the red/blue 3-D glasses and you could probably have some type of 3D presentation. Those types of glasses are available in plastic... and you don't have to have a cheap cardboard pair from a cheesy 1950's movie.

I am not an expert on this subject matter but I still have a first generation Lytro Lightfield camera.... and I still use it. I just wish that there was a way to convert those lotto images to the RHO format. Ah well, the Lytro software will export I think into 3D -Glasses type output...and that Leia software... seems to be able to take the SBS format and put it into the RHO format. Oh, that Leia software... they are developing it for Windows AND MacOS.

Hopefully I have been helpful. If you learn anything about this... hit me up... or for that matter ... IF ANY OF YOU OUT THERE READ THIS... hit me up ;-)