Is SheerVideo useful for the Animation codec?
Maybe. If you are using Apple’s Animation codec for the traditional low-detail constant-shaded 2-dimensional content it was designed for, you will probably find it to be the best choice, since it compresses such material with much higher power than SheerVideo. And Animation directly supports low-precision color formats that are ideal for such material. However, if you’re using the Animation codec to compress naturalistic, high-detail animation, especially 3-dimensional animation such as Pixar’s, or if you’re using the Animation codec for live-action footage just because it was the only codec fast enough to be worthwhile, you will find that SheerVideo is the best choice. SheerVideo not only compresses such material 100% more powerfully than the Animation codec, SheerVideo also compresses 140% faster (110 versus 43 MiB/s on a single-CPU 1 GHz Mac G4) than Animation. Within RAM, SheerVideo decompresses 30% slower (100 versus 145 MiB/s) than Animation, but for real-world content, SheerVide
