BitJazz Delivers Real-Time Nondestructive Video Codec
October 26, 2004
Marin County, CA - BitJazz Inc. announces the immediate availability of version 2.0 of SheerVideo, its real-time lossless software video codec.
SheerVideo is available for Mac and Windows, and as described by the manufacturer, doubles both the speed and the capacity of transmission and storage while encoding and decoding on the fly with perfect fidelity, thus helping to overcome the tremendous temporal and spatial obstacles that hinder the use of studio-quality uncompressed film and video.
The new version adds many new professional features, including 10-bit channels, an optional alpha channel in all formats, gamma tracking, and interconversion between all standard pixel formats. And version 2.0 introduces Synchromy, the world's most accurate color converter. In many workflows, Synchromy interconverts between spectral RGB colors and video Y'CbCr colors absolutely without any information loss, a feat previously considered impossible. Designed to facilitate the interchangeability of studio-quality video, film, and CGI image formats in professional video and film production and postproduction, Synchromy permits editors to switch between their favorite tools without worrying about error accumulation - nor any error at all - arising from repeated conversion between RGB and YUV color spaces. (SheerVideo and Synchromy patents pending.)
SheerVideo Reader for Mac and Windows is free. SheerVideo Pro v2.0 for Mac is available now at the introductory price of $149, and can be downloaded and evaluated for free for 20 days.
SheerVideo Pro v2.0 for PC+Windows is currently available as a public beta, and will be available at the same price in about a month. This preliminary release of SheerVideo v2.0 is not yet optimized for MMX or G5, and does not yet run as quickly on the G5 as on the G4. Customers who purchase SheerVideo Pro v2.0 will the G5- or MMX-optimized version for free.
Currently implemented as a set of QuickTime components, SheerVideo is also being developed for Windows Media (AVI) on the PC.
For more information, visit
www.bitjazz.com
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