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SheerVideo Pro X 2.8.0.7

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QuickTime video codec. Demo ($149)

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SheerVideo Pro is a powerful faster-than-real-time perfectly lossless software video codec for production, postproduction, and archival. Compared to uncompressed formats, Sheer will

double your disk speed
double your disk size
double your transmission bandwidth
maintain absolutely perfect fidelity, bit-for-bit identical to the original

SheerVideo Pro supports all standard uncompressed formats, including:

RGB[A] and Y'CbCr[A]
4:4:4[:4] and 4:2:2[:4]
with and without alpha
8-bit and

What's New

Version 2.8.0.7:

Support for the RGB[A] 8bf pixel formats ABGR, RGBA, BGRA, RGB, and BGR has been switched on in SheerVideo for Mac, to facilitate conversion of files imported from PC+Windows systems.

Requirements

PPC / Intel
PowerPC G3 | G4 | G5 or Mac Intel
Mac OS X 10.1+

Related Links
PPC version available here. Intel version available here.

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SheerVideo Pro X User Discussion (Write a Review)

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Anonymous reviewed on 03 Aug 2005

...ummmm... is this used by anyone for more than archiving purposes?

[Version 2.3.5.7]

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Anonymous commented on 19 Oct 2005

Yes, we use it for live ingest of 8 sources in 1080i/29.97.

Using a KONA2 and VirtualVTR, it works quite well. It also is editable in FinalCutPro. Your AGP card has got to be a fairly powerful one though and turn off 3D (if an ATI card).

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DesterWallaboo replied on 16 Dec 2005

Not sure why you have to have a powerful AGP card or have 3D turned off to use SheerVideo Pro... that doesn't make any sense at all!

Anyway, with that said, we use this codec daily in our regular workflow. We rarely render out in any other codec except for final delivery. Keeping animation files and such in a smaller, pristine lossless format is priceless. When we changed over to Sheer from using Animation codec we literally saved over 2TB of file size by simply converting our existing Animation codec files to Sheer. Also, Sheer supports 10-bit color space... something Animation doesn't support.

Anonymous reviewed on 06 Jan 2005

Come on BitJazz, you guys used to have this program really together...now I don't know what I've got or what you are doing...
You are watering down your own progress with these dumb updates...make a real jump in progress then release an update...it's boring to try to follow all these tiny adjustments

[Version 2.0.2.2]

Anonymous reviewed on 16 Mar 2004

What has changed since the last update?

[Version 1.3.7.8]

Anonymous reviewed on 23 Feb 2004

Keep in mind that it can't be compared to Indeo or DivX, as they're not editable. This one is made for very high quality demands, and big bandwith, like Pixlet. Not to forgot that it's not aimed for the large public like the 3ivX, DivX and so on, but for pro's. And it's loseless codec... so a little like the PNG's for video ;)

[Version 1.3.4.0]

Anonymous reviewed on 09 Feb 2004

I would steer clear of exotic codecs... anyone remember Indeo? Intel developed it, then sold it off to a company that doesn't produce it for the Mac any more. If you want to run Indeo video on a Mac now you have to run the old OS 9 Quicktime player under Classic.

It's bad enough keeping up with DivX and 3ivX and all the variants. Not to mention that even on my G3/400 I get frame drops because it's too CPU-intensive. I don't care if it takes more space, the old MPEG codecs work on any platform and don't use up a lot of CPU power... and disk is getting cheaper all the time.

[Version 1.2.9.1]

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Anonymous commented on 18 Feb 2004

I don't think the previous anonymous poster had much of a clue what he was talking about. This is a relatively esoteric codec, but then it's for a relatively esoteric application, namely the archiving and transfer of high-speed, full-resolution, uncompressed video for use in editing environments. You're not likely to ever see consumer content distributed in this format, so I wouldn't worry too much about it "disappearing".
If you value being able to deliver 18Mb/sec video quality at half that rate without any other compromise, use this codec.
If you're a script-kiddie DVD-ripper, look elsewhere.

Anonymous commented on 16 Mar 2004

If it's advertised on a consumer site like MacUpdate then the ad copy needs to be a little more specific about what the product actually is... particularly given the current intellectual property environment where companies are using every loophole they can to lock information up and keep it from ever reverting to the public domain, and the codec wars are part of that strategy.

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MacUpdate Lon replied on 16 Mar 2004

I really don't know what you are going on about, but we at MacUpdate post what the respective companies give us to post. And the info is not always correct nor complete.

Anonymous commented on 19 Mar 2004

Steady on, friends! I know that MacUpdate can't post what the developer hasn't sent them, I just think the developer was doing MU and MU's readers both a disservice by not making it clear that this wasn't a consumer app.

Anonymous reviewed on 02 Feb 2004

Sheer Video is a solid video codec which has true lossless encoding and doubles the performance of disk access while halfing the space of video files in the process (typically). The only problem is that the developer is making constant "stealth" updates to this codec but does not share with end-users on the software update sites (nor its own web page) exactly what the changes are from version to version. There are frequently only a day to several days between releases. Overly frequent updates with no "changelog" or other update history to be found is a source of user Update Fatigue.

[Version 1.2.7.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 15 May 2003

Don't like the fact that the demo expires. What happens if you convert all your important vids and the company goes out of business? Your vids encoded with this proprietary codec will be lost!

[Version 0.9.8.6]

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DesterWallaboo replied on 16 Dec 2005

You can always playback even if the demo expires... you just will not be able to encode anymore.

This is the best codec I've used for post-production animation/fx bar none.

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Date:17 Aug 2009

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SheerVideo Pro is a powerful faster-than-real-time perfectly lossless software video codec for production, postproduction, and archival. Compared to uncompressed formats, Sheer will

double your disk speed
double your disk size
double your transmission bandwidth
maintain absolutely perfect fidelity, bit-for-bit identical to the original

SheerVideo Pro supports all standard uncompressed formats, including:

RGB[A] and Y'CbCr[A]
4:4:4[:4] and 4:2:2[:4]
with and without alpha
8-bit and 10-bit
progressive and interlaced
SD, HD, and any-D
NTSC, PAL, and SECAM
4:3, 16:9, and any:any
at any frame rate

And now, with Synchromy, SheerVideo Pro can interconvert between all standard pixel formats with unrivalled accuracy.

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