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a simple google search will bring this up

https://www.bitjazz.com/en/products/sheervideo/

No offense be you can often save yourself a ton of time waiting for answers from others, please try doing a little looking yourself before asking.

[Rafael Amador]

Very sorry for my suggestion. i promis I won’t do it again.
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

Dave,
As I wrote in the other piece of thread, I think that the option you pointed was more logic and easy.
I’ve got Sheer since almost to years and I’m very happy of the money I’ spent. I’ve got some friends that work with AE in PC. They started to use the codec to share files with me, but now they only use to inter-change files between them.
Any way I recognice that I know almost nothing about AVI and WM. I’ve got not real contact with the film-video industry because where I live there is not such a. My only conexion with this world is my work and this forum. And I;m very happy to learn workflows that, as the one that you pointed, can help me some time.
Cheers,
Rafael

[Andreas Wittenstein]

Dave,

Before you call products “stupid” and exhort their users to “forget” them in this forum, I suggest you reread the Creative Cow’s Code of Conduct.

Windows Media and AVI codecs are in no way more “standard” than QuickTime codecs. In fact, until Flip4Mac came out, QuickTime formats were clearly more standard in the sense that they alone were available cross-platform. Even now, QuickTime remains more standard in the sense that readers are available for free on both platforms. Moreover, AVI itself historically derives from QuickTime for Windows.

It’s simply not true that using Windows Media or AVI codecs lets everyone see your files. On the Mac, the only people who will be able to see them are those who buy the Flip4Mac reader, which is not free. In contrast, if you use SheerVideo, everyone on either platform can see them, because the SheerVideo Reader is free on both platforms.

We believe that both QuickTime and Video for Windows are standards worth addressing, and for those who prefer the latter, we plan to release SheerVideo AVI later this month.

I’d like to know in what sense you feel that the SheerVideo Reader is “stupid” or “special”, as opposed to the decompressors that come with Flip4Mac. It’s free. It works. It’s readily available. Hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded it. If you would like to see the product improved, please let us know, rather than publicly dissing it.

Also, it’s not true that the Flip4Mac Studio Pro HD ($179) costs the same as SheerVideo Pro HD ($149).

Finally, the SheerVideo family of codecs offers features that no other set of codecs provides. No other codec, whether QT or AVI, offers real-time lossless compression and decompression of both RGB[A] and Y’CbCr[A], both 10-bit and 8-bit, both Y’CbCr[A] 4:4:4[:4] and Y’CbCr[A] 4:2:2[:4], or optional alpha in all codecs. And no other product anywhere offers lossless interconversion between RGB[A] and Y’CbCr[A].

Andreas Wittenstein
BitJazz Inc.
https://www.bitjazz.com/

[Ron Lindeboom]

Okay Dave, this has gotten just a bit too out there and I am not going to let this one slide without a bit of “slappage” of my own…

You are entitled to your opinions. You are NOT entitled to bitch slap a guy as you have done to Andreas. Period.

You don’t like his codec? Fine. That is your opinion. But there is a whole article, for example, in the new issue of Creative COW Magazine on why Mac users, in particular, would want to use it in cross-platform production environments. Can you spell “ProRes can’t function in a cross-platform environment but Sheer can capture and create great looking images that *are* instantly available to their PC counterparts (and even other Mac users) who are working in the same production chain but don’t have FCS2 on their machines”???

In our tests we found the Sheer codec was as much as 50-times faster than other lossless codecs. Our tester, David Battistella, found it to be nearly twice as fast as uncompressed. For a lossless codec that beats the crap out of many of those out there.

Is it perfect? No. I have yet to see anything that is.

And no, Andreas didn’t buy an ad or ask us to do the article. We did the story as when we saw ProRes, it became clear to us that only those with the latest revision of FC Studio 2 were going to be able to read it — other machines in the studio that may be running After Effects or older versions of FCP but don’t have FC Studio 2, per se, and so can’t use ProRes. Period.

Again, as I said earlier, there are no perfect solutions and I have yet to see one. But I have had it with people wanting to insult others and think that they have some god-given right to do so.

Think what you want but you hardly have all the answers, Dave. You may think you do but that is hardly the case…

And if you wish to insult me, then feel free but take your best shot because it will be your last…

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net, co-founder
Creative COW Magazine, publisher

[Ron Lindeboom]

Hello Dave,

Over the years you have been a great guy, and one full of ideas and answers. It has been great to have you here at the COW.

All of us get those days when we go beyond where we probably should go but that’s part of being human.

Thanks for your understanding, Dave.

Have fun,

Ron Lindeboom