A decoder-only version of SheerVideo Pro, a powerful faster-than-real-time perfectly lossless software video codec for production, postproduction, and archival.

Compared to uncompressed formats, the application SheerVideo Reader will double your disk speed, double your disk size, double your transmission bandwidth, and maintain absolutely perfect fidelity, bit-for-bit identical to the original.

No other image format can make these claims. What's more, SheerVideo is the most versatile format around, with perfect-fidelity real-time support for:
· RGB[A] & Y'CbCr[A]
· optional alpha
· 8-bit & 10-bit precision per channel
· full-range, video-range, unbiassed-range, & wide-range
· 4:4:4[:4] & 4:2:2[:4]
· progressive & interlaced
· over 2 dozen pixel formats
· Synchromy perfect-fidelity color-conversion
· film & video
· SD, HD, & any D
· 4:3, 16:9, & any:any
· Mac & PC
· OS X & OS 8|9
· XP, Me, 2000, '98 & '95
· G5, G4 & G3
· P4, P3, & AMD
· single-CPU, dual-CPU, & multi-CPU
· single-core & dual-core

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

Here are some key features of "SheerVideo Reader":

· Real-time decoding
· Perfect-fidelity decoding
· Synchromy decoding
· RGB[A] decoding
· Y'CbCr[A] decoding
· Alpha decoding
· 10-bit decoding
· 8-bit decoding
· 5-bit decoding
· full-range decoding
· video-range decoding
· unbiassed-range decoding
· wide-range decoding
· 4:4:4[:4] decoding
· 4:2:2[:4] decoding
· Progressive decoding
· SD decoding
· HD decoding


Note: If you work with professional-quality digital film, video, or still imagery and need encoding features as well, then you need SheerVideo Pro and you can buy it here.

Requirements:

· Quick time installed

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Support for the Y'CbCr 8bv 4:2:2 pixel format HDYC ('CYDH') used by Blackmagic Design has been added to the Sheer AVI codecs. This pixel format is identical to UYVY ('YVYU'), except that they use the HD color space specified in ITU-R BT.709-2, rather than the SD color space specified in ITU-R BT.601-4.