January 27th, 2010· The Sheer Y'CbCr[A] 10bv 4:4:4[:4] QuickTime decoder mistakenly proceeded to decode frames even when certain critical errors had been detected. This has now been corrected.
January 27th, 2010· Support for the RGB[A] 16bf pixel format 'A46L' has been switched on in the Sheer Y'CbCr[A] 10bv 4:2:2[:4] codec, where it had inadvertently been switched off.
January 27th, 2010· Support for the Y'CbCr 8bv 4:2:2 pixel format 'UYVY', which had been switched off by a typographical error, has been switched on.
August 17th, 2009· Support for the RGB[A] 8bf pixel formats ABGR, RGBA, BGRA, RGB, and BGR has been switched on in SheerVideo for Mac, to facilitate conversion of files imported from PC+Windows systems.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:4:4 i decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 13% on Mac Intel. Note that this pathway has not been optimized for AltiVec G4 or G5 on Mac PPC.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:4:4 i decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 24% on Mac Intel. Note that this pathway has not been optimized for AltiVec G4 or G5 on Mac PPC.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:4:4 i decoder for 'v210' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 8% on Mac Intel. Note that this pathway has not been optimized for AltiVec G4 or G5 on Mac PPC.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:4:4 i decoder for 'v216' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 9% on Mac Intel. Note that this pathway has not been optimized for AltiVec G4 or G5 on Mac PPC.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:4:4 i decoder for 'v408' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 22% on Mac Intel.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:4:4 i decoder for 'v410' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 18% on Mac Intel.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:4:4:4 i decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 29% on Mac Intel. Note that this pathway has not been optimized for AltiVec G4 or G5 on Mac PPC.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:4:4:4 i decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 29% on Mac Intel. Note that this pathway has not been optimized for AltiVec G4 or G5 on Mac PPC.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:4:4:4 i decoder for 'v210' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 24% on Mac Intel. Note that this pathway has not been optimized for AltiVec G4 or G5 on Mac PPC.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:4:4:4 i decoder for 'v216' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 27% on Mac Intel. Note that this pathway has not been optimized for AltiVec G4 or G5 on Mac PPC.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:4:4:4 i decoder for 'v408' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 38% on Mac Intel.
May 11th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:4:4:4 i decoder for 'v410' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 35% on Mac Intel.
May 8th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:2:2 p decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 31% on Mac Intel.
May 8th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:2:2 p decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 31% on Mac Intel.
May 8th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:2:2 p decoder for 'v210' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 23% on Mac Intel.
May 8th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:2:2 p decoder for 'v216' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 29% on Mac Intel.
May 8th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:2:2:4 p decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 27% on Mac Intel.
May 8th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:2:2:4 p decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 27% on Mac Intel.
May 8th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:2:2:4 p decoder for 'v210' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 27% on Mac Intel.
May 8th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:2:2:4 p decoder for 'v216' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 26% on Mac Intel.
April 7th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:2:2 i decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 23% on Mac Intel.
April 7th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:2:2 i decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 21% on Mac Intel.
April 7th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:2:2 i decoder for 'v210' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 1% on Mac Intel.
April 7th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:2:2 i decoder for 'v216' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 25% on Mac Intel.
April 7th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:2:2:4 i decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 20% on Mac Intel.
April 7th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:2:2:4 i decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 20% on Mac Intel.
April 7th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:2:2:4 i decoder for 'v210' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 5% on Mac Intel.
April 7th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:2:2:4 i decoder for 'v216' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 20% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· The switch to turn on the SSE optimizations added to the Sheer Engine in v2.7.0..2.7.3 was inadvertently disabled in SheerVideo. Since Mac OS X's overzealous DRM measure now make it virtually impossible to debug QuickTime codecs, this problem was rather difficult to detect and confirm.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGB 10bf p decoder for ARGB pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 45% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGB 10bf p decoder for 'F210' (full-range 'r210') pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 44% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGB 10bf p decoder for 'F10k' (full-range 'R10k') pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 44% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGB 10bf p decoder for 'b64a' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 54% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGBA 10bf p decoder for ARGB pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 53% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGBA 10bf p decoder for 'F210' (full-range 'r210') pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 47% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGBA 10bf p decoder for 'F10k' (full-range 'R10k') pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 45% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGBA 10bf p decoder for 'b64a' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 56% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGB 10bf i decoder for ARGB pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 21% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGB 10bf i decoder for 'F210' (full-range 'r210') pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 17% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGB 10bf i decoder for 'F10k' (full-range 'R10k') pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 16% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGB 10bf i decoder for 'b64a' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 28% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGBA 10bf i decoder for ARGB pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 34% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGBA 10bf i decoder for 'F210' (full-range 'r210') pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 28% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGBA 10bf i decoder for 'F10k' (full-range 'R10k') pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 27% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGBA 10bf i decoder for 'b64a' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 39% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· The MMX+SSE versions of the Sheer Y"CbCr[A] 8bu,v 4:4:4[:4] p,i decoders for 'v408','r408' pixel output have been sped up by a further 1% on Mac Intel.
March 30th, 2009· The MMX+SSE versions of the Sheer RGB 8bf p,i decoders for ARGB pixel output have been sped up by a further 1% on Mac Intel.
March 22nd, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bu 4:4:4 p decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 38% on Mac Intel.
March 22nd, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bu 4:4:4:4 p decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 37% on Mac Intel.
March 22nd, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:4:4 p decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 39% on Mac Intel.
March 22nd, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bv 4:4:4:4 p decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 31% on Mac Intel.
March 22nd, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bu 4:4:4 p decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 39% on Mac Intel.
March 22nd, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bu 4:4:4:4 p decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 37% on Mac Intel.
March 22nd, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:4:4 p decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 36% on Mac Intel.
March 22nd, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bv 4:4:4:4 p decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 33% on Mac Intel.
March 21st, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bu 4:4:4 i decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 20% on Mac Intel.
March 21st, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bu 4:4:4:4 i decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 32% on Mac Intel.
March 21st, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:4:4 i decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 11% on Mac Intel.
March 21st, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bv 4:4:4:4 i decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 31% on Mac Intel.
March 21st, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bu 4:4:4 i decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 20% on Mac Intel.
March 21st, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bu 4:4:4:4 i decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 33% on Mac Intel.
March 21st, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:4:4 i decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 6% on Mac Intel.
March 21st, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bv 4:4:4:4 i decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 30% on Mac Intel.
March 17th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bu 4:4:4 p decoder for 'r408' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 25% on Mac Intel.
March 17th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bu 4:4:4:4 p decoder for 'r408' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 42% on Mac Intel.
March 17th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:4:4 p decoder for 'v408' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 25% on Mac Intel.
March 17th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bv 4:4:4:4 p decoder for 'v408' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 42% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bu 4:4:4 i decoder for 'r408' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 1% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bu 4:4:4:4 i decoder for 'r408' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 18% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:4:4 i decoder for 'v408' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 1% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bv 4:4:4:4 i decoder for 'v408' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 18% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:2:2 p decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 30% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:2:2 p decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 25% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bv 4:2:2:4 p decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 26% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bv 4:2:2:4 p decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 26% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· The vectorized Sheer Y'CbCr[A] 8bv 4:2:2[:4] i decoders for '2vuy' and 'yuvs' pixel output have been sped up by 1% on Mac Intel and 2% on Mac PPC G4 and G5.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:2:2 i decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 17% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:2:2 i decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bv 4:2:2:4 i decoder for 'yuvs' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 17% on Mac Intel.
March 15th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer Y'CbCrA 8bv 4:2:2:4 i decoder for '2vuy' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 14% on Mac Intel.
March 9th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGBA 8bf i decoder for 'ARGB' pixel output, “speeding up” this common pathway by a sad 0% on Mac Intel. Maybe it performs better on other Intel or AMD CPUs.
March 9th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGB 8bf i decoder for 'ARGB' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 18% on Mac Intel.
March 9th, 2009· The MMX+SSE version of the Sheer RGB[A] 8bf p decoders for 'ARGB' pixel output have been sped up by a further 2% on Mac Intel.
March 9th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGBA 8bf p decoder for 'ARGB' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 28% on Mac Intel.
March 9th, 2009· MMX+SSE optimization has been added to the Sheer RGB 8bf p decoder for 'ARGB' pixel output, speeding up this common pathway by 17% on Mac Intel.
May 9th, 2008· Decoding Sheer RGB[A] formats to Y'CbCr[A] pixels has been sped up by an average of 6%, due to a new optimization in Synchromny.
April 30th, 2008· iMovie bug workaround: v2.6.7.1: iMovie mistakenly accepts many pixel formats it cannot handle. As a result, Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:4:4 movies imported into iMovie were displayed as blank green, because the preferred pixel format for the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:4:4 decoders is 'v410', which, although defined by Apple many years ago, is still not supported by iMovie or other Apple applications. Sheer Y'CbCrA 10bv 4:4:4:4 movies imported into iMovie were likewise displayed as blank green, because the preferred pixel format for the Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:4:4:4 decoders is 'V416', a non-Apple custom pixel format. Similar problems may also have occurred for other Sheer decoders. When running under iMovie, all Sheer decoders now offer only pixel formats recognized by iMovie.
April 21st, 2008· Avid Meridien uncompressed support: v2.6.7.0: Support for the RGB[A] 8bv 4:4:4[:4] pixel format 'VRGB' used by Avid's Meridien uncompressed codec has been added to all Sheer QT codecs, making it possible to export uncompressed video from Avid to standard QuickTime applications by setting the 'RGB Input Range' to 'Video range' in the Sheer Settings dialog. Internally, AVUI is a Y'CbCr[A] 8bv 4:2:2[:4] format, but the only pixel format supported by Avid's AVUI QuickTime codec is an RGB[A] 8bv pixel format which we call 'VRGB', to distinguish it from the standard QuickTime 'ARGB' pixel format. Unlike 'ARGB', a full-range RGB[A] 8bf format in which the red, green, and blue components have the range [0..255], the RGB components in 'VRGB' are ITU-R BT.601-4-compliant video-range, [16..235], preserving much of the footroom for subblacks and headroom for superwhites in standard video pixel formats. But since essentially no QuickTime applications other than Avid's can deal with 8-bit video-range RGB[A] data, uncompressed video exported from Avid inevitably gets misinterpreted as full-range, reducing the contrast by over 14%, so that for example true black and true black merely look dark and light grey, respectively.
March 11th, 2008· In SheerVideo Pro v2.6.6.3..v2.6.6.6, the Sheer QT encoders erroneously reverted to progressive mode after the first frame. So for Sheer video tracks supposedly encoded in interlaced mode, the Sheer QT decoders detected that the Sheer format in the header of subsequent frames did not match the expected (interlaced) format, and incorrectly deduced that the encoded data had been corrupted, which they reported as 'codecBadDataErr' (-8969), and did not decode the data. Most applications did not pass this information on to the user, instead continuing to display the first frame as though nothing were wrong. This release fixes the problem at both ends: The Sheer encoders no longer incorrectly revert to progressive mode; and the Sheer decoders now check whether the scan mode has changed, and switch modes accordingly. Footage encoded with SheerVideo Pro v2.6.6.3..v2.6.6.6 play correctly with v2.6.6.7.
March 5th, 2008· 'VUYA' pixel-format support for Adobe Premiere; 'L64A' pixel-format support for Adobe Premiere; Backward compatibility fix; Sheer RGB[A] 8bf and Y'CbCr[A] 8bv 4:4:4[:4] decoder speed-up; Sheer RGB 10bf and Y'CbCr 8bv 4:2:2 decoder speed-up; 'V416' pixel-format support for Adobe Premiere
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