Just dropping SheerVideo into your otherwise unchanged workflow in place of uncompressed or Animation video formats will usually save you a lot of time and space. But it's likely that you can speed things up and shrink things down even more by considering additional factors that influence the performance of SheerVideo and other codecs:

• storage and transmission issues such as sustained transfer rates, fragmentation, and contiguity
• content issues such as noise
• display parameters such as precision, resolution, cropping, and masking
• working-workflow issues

For final renderings, on the other hand, accuracy is usually more important than speed, so you need to consider

• final-workflow issues