StickyColor offers Nondestructive Color-Conversion

 BitJazz has announced the development of StickyColor, a new process for interconverting between spectral RGB color pixels and video Y'CbCr color pixels with "absolute zero loss in image quality...[It] permits editors to switch between their favorite tools without having to worry about error accumulation from repeated conversion between RGB and YUV color spaces." StickyColor will be incorporated in the upcoming version 2 release of BitJazz's real-time nondestructive SheerVideo codecs for QuickTime, which will ship in May.

"Imagine if you could repeatedly edit your video footage with RGB tools, or repeatedly edit your CGI footage with YUV tools, without having to worry about generational loss or even first-generation loss. StickyColor does that for you. Untouched pixels in the final output are bit-for-bit identical with the original source pixels, and the rest have the highest possible accuracy."



BitJazz says that StickyColor supports fixed-point RGB[A] and Y'CbCr[A] 4:4:4[:4] pixel formats of any precision, from 8 to 16 bits per component and beyond. StickyColor supports any resolution, including SD and HD, NTSC and PAL, 4:3 and 16:9, progressive and interlaced, with or without alpha.



StickyColor technology is based on a branch of mathematical information theory company dubbed "discrete deprecision theory," which was previously used to develop BitJazz's PhotoJazz and SheerVideo products. The company says StickyColor maintains the theoretically highest possible accuracy in converting between RGB and Y'CbCr color spaces and in cases where the two color spaces have the same precision, it says that "StickyColor has measurably lower error than any other method."



StickyColor also will be released as an independent set of cross-platform uncompressed codecs, first for QuickTime and then for Windows Media (AVI). The technology will also be available for licensing. Pricing is not yet set.

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