Avid DNxHD is a revolutionary HD codec technology engineered to create mastering-quality HD media at dramatically reduced file sizes, shattering the barriers to real-time HD productivity, whether using local storage or in real-time collaborative workflows.

Native HD camera compression formats are efficient, but simply aren’t engineered to maintain quality during complex post production effects processing. Uncompressed HD delivers superior image quality, but data rates and file sizes can stop a workflow dead in its tracks. Avid DNxHD delivers both efficiency and quality without compromises.

“DNxHD allows you to do things you couldn’t otherwise afford to do”
- Joe Beirne, Executive Vice President of Technology, PostWorks

• Optimal mastering picture quality
• Minimal degradation over multiple generations
• Reduced storage requirements
• Enables real-time HD sharing and collaboration
• Improved multi-stream performance

• Supported on Avid Xpress Pro*, Avid Media Composer family, Avid NewsCutter family, Avid Symphony Nitris, Avid DS Nitris, and Avid Interplay Assist
• Specifically engineered for multi-generation compositing and post production
• Full frame raster sampling
• Choice of 8- or 10-bit sampling as well as three user-selectable bit rates
• Avid DNxHD 36, a screening-quality HD offline resolution for progressive formats
• Real-time HD multi-camera performance
• Open standard: HD Codec source code is licensable free of charge
• QuickTime HD codec is downloadable free of charge for Mac OSX and Windows XP

• Find out more details on Avid DNxHD Features

* Support for selected DNxHD resolutions