



SheerVideo lets users convert between RGB and Y'CbCr color spaces nondestructively. It provides direct lossless support for all professional pixel formats for digitized film & synthetic imagery (RGB[A]) and video (Y'CbCr[A]), both with and without alpha, in high (10-bit) and standard (8-bit) precision, full-range and video-range, uniformly sampled (4:4:4[:4]) and 1:2 chroma-subsampled (4:2:2[:4]); at any resolution, including HD (high definition) and SD (standard definition), NTSC, PAL, & SECAM; 4:3 & 16:9, progressive and interlaced.
The new SheerVideo for Mac+Intel edition lets SheerVideo run in native mode on the new Intel Mac systems, while the Universal Binary edition runs both in native Intel mode and in Rosetta PowerPC emulation mode, as well as on any PowerPC running Mac OS X. These products join the existing lineup of editions for Mac OS X, Mac OS 8/9 and PC+Windows. The initial release, scheduled for the end of January, will take full advantage of multiple cores and multiple processors on Mac+Intel platforms, as SheerVideo already does for Mac+PowerPC, where it also takes advantage of the AltiVec vector processing capabiliites of the G4 and G5, according to the folks at BitJazz. A later release will add MMX+SSE vector optimization for a further boost in performance on Intel processors, they add.
SheerVideo Reader is free for all platforms. SheerVideo Pro costs US$149, as does SheerVideo Pro for Mac OS X+Intel. SheerVideo Pro for Mac OS X Universal will be available for $189. Customers who purchase SheerVideo Pro for Mac OS X this month or who have already purchased it will receive a complimentary upgrade to the Universal Binary edition.
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