Is SheerVideo faster than PhotoJazz?
Yes. On a single-CPU 1 GHz Mac G4, for example, SheerVideo encodes (110 MiB/s) and decodes (100 MiB/s) 50 times faster than BitJazz’s PhotoJazz (1.9 MiB/s). Note that SheerVideo is only 11% less powerful (2.20) than PhotoJazz (2.51) for real-world footage, and, unlike PhotoJazz, SheerVideo supports native video formats as well as RGB[A]. On the other hand, PhotoJazz supports many other formats as well, such as RGB[A*] 16b, CMYK[A*] 8b & 16b, multispectral, multitone, monochrome, and spot colors, and is also a much more powerful compressor for poster-quality imagery.
