Is SheerVideo faster than uncompressed, None, or Component Video?
Yes, in any situation where transmission, storage, or retrieval is the bottleneck, (which is to say, in just about any situation), SheerVideo is more than twice as fast as uncompressed, because SheerVideo is faster than just about any transmission or storage device, and slashes storage and transmission data rates in half. Thus, any time you are using Apple’s None (uncompressed RGB[A] 8b) codec or Apple’s Component Video (uncompressed Y’CbCr 8bw 4:2:2) codec with a disk or network or bus that goes slower than SheerVideo, you could save time by using SheerVideo instead of None or Component Video. For example, even if you have a slow single-CPU 500 MHz G4 computer and a fast disk with a transfer rate of 30 MB/s, you could work twice as fast with SheerVideo.
