Is SheerVideo more powerful than the PhotoJazz codec?
No. For real-world RGB imagery, SheerVideo (2.20) is 11% less powerful than BitJazz’s PhotoJazz codec. However, in most situations, that extra 11% compression is easily outweighed by the fact that SheerVideo is 50 times faster than PhotoJazz. Also note that, unlike PhotoJazz, SheerVideo supports native video formats as well as RGB[A]. On the other hand, PhotoJazz also supports many other formats, such as RGB 16b, CMYK 8b & 16b, multispectral, multitone, monochrome, and multiple alpha channels and spot colors.
