Hi @Kris
I had never heard of HAP before you mentioned it here.
It turns out that SC will happily import and export HAP videos.
Took a 5 min video in h.264 (640 X 360) and imported it into SC, then exported as 1920 X 1080 in HAP
wrapped in a .mov container.
Pretty impressed with how nicely it scrubbs even though the resulting HAP video was exported at 115Mb/s.
Left the settings as they were but I’m sure by twiddling, one can favour either better quality or smaller file sizes.
EDIT:
Just loaded the HAP video into SMPlayer on a lowly Celeron 2.4GHz with 2GB RAM (running Debian) and I’m astounded at how smooth it plays and if I make big jumps forwards or backwards it’s instantaneous.
Absolutely briliant, considering that this little Celeron is playing a 1920 X 1080 115Mb/s video without even breaking a sweat.