Tools
Tools from the field
Programs we wrote for our own work, in the field and at the desk. They save us hours every week, so we're sharing them.
New Dome Viewer
Watch your dome master from any seat in the house, right in your browser.
Dome Viewer is our in-house tool for fulldome content. Drop in a dome master and it plays in a 3D theatre, where you can sit anywhere and pin notes to the exact moment and spot on the dome.
- Open it and drop in a file: no install, no account, and the file never leaves your computer
- Every seat in the house: jump between seats, click any chair, or step outside for a cut-away of the whole theatre
- Collaborate with your team: write notes at an exact frame and spot on the dome, and sync them to your workflow
- For productions: upload a clip, send each reviewer their own private link that expires, and collect every note in one place or in your Notion
Runs on: A web browser. For HEVC video, use Safari, or Chrome or Edge with hardware video decoding.
A frame from Nordic Glaciers, seen from a seat in the far corner.
White label
Put your name on the dome
Dome Viewer is also available as a white-label app. Planetariums can let producers preview their shows before booking dome time, and studios can let clients review a cut from anywhere, all under your name.
Your brand
Your logo, your name and your colours. Your reviewers see you, not us.
Your domain
It runs on your own address, such as dome.yourvenue.com.
Your workflow
An expiring link for each reviewer, and notes that go to your own Notion.
Your theatre
We can model your own theatre, with its tilt and its rows of seats.
Tell us about your dome, and we'll come back with a setup and a price.
Ask about a licence
Beta Offload
Empty your memory cards without that nagging doubt.
After a shoot you have to empty the cards, and you can never be quite sure every file made it or that the card is safe to format.
IVAR Offload copies a card to up to three drives at once, checks every file on every drive, and only turns green when your footage is safe. Back home, one click moves the videos out of a mixed folder, ready for the edit.
- Checks every copy against the card, and never changes anything on the card itself
- Works with cards from just about any camera or drone
- Nothing to install: download, double-click, done
Runs on: Windows 10 and 11
Pick your card and the drives you want copies on.
Beta glTF Viewer
Press Space on a 3D file and see it, like Quick Look on a Mac.
A folder of .glb and .gltf files tells you nothing until you open each one in a heavy 3D program. On a Mac you would just press Space. On Windows there has been nothing like it.
IVAR glTF Viewer sits in the system tray. Select a 3D file in Explorer, press Space, and the model opens with studio lighting, animation controls and a validation report. Press Space again and it is gone. The arrow keys step through the rest of the folder.
- Fully offline: no network requests, no telemetry
- Opens Draco, KTX2 and Meshopt compressed files straight away
- Installs per user in seconds, with no admin rights needed
Runs on: Windows 10 (1809 or later) and 11, 64-bit
Studio lighting and a dark background, with nothing in the way.
New md-writer
A calm, minimal place to write and read markdown.
Markdown is how we write now: notes, plans, scripts, and the files AI agents read and write all day. Most of it gets edited in a code editor that treats prose like source code, or in a notes app that wants to own the file.
md-writer is just a page. The text you see is the markdown, styled as you type with the syntax still on screen, and Ctrl+S saves it back exactly where it came from, byte for byte.
- Shows the new version as it lands when an agent or another app changes the file, and asks before replacing your unsaved edits
- Right-click any .md, .txt or .log file and choose Open with, one window per file
- Works fully offline, with no account and no telemetry. Open source under the MIT License
Runs on: Windows 10 and 11
No Windows? The same editor runs in any browser at md.ivar.studio.
A one-minute tour of md-writer.
Fisheye Stitcher for Resolve
Stitch fulldome and 360° films right inside DaVinci Resolve.
Stitching fulldome and 360° footage usually means rendering in separate programs and huge temporary files, all over again every time the edit changes.
Fisheye Stitcher does the stitching inside DaVinci Resolve instead. Set up each shot once in PTGui, and it stitches as you edit and export. We use it on our own fulldome productions and are opening it to a few early testers.
- Works inside DaVinci Resolve, with no extra render steps
- Straight from your camera's original files
- Set up each shot once in PTGui, and that's it
Runs on: Windows, DaVinci Resolve Studio and PTGui Pro
Social Media Prepper
Captions, alt text and keywords, written into your photos.
Before you post a set of photos, every image needs a caption, alt text and keywords. Writing them by hand takes hours, so it rarely gets done properly.
Social Media Prepper reads a short brief about the set, has an AI model that sees the photos draft the text, and writes it into the files once you've checked it. Lightroom and every other program can read it from there.
Runs on: Windows 10 and 11, ideally with an NVIDIA graphics card with 8 GB or more
No suitable graphics card? It can use the Claude API instead, which uploads each image to Anthropic.
A few sentences about the set: what, where and who to credit.