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About Avid codecs and resolutions

About Avid codecs and resolutions - Media Composer Tutorial

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About Avid codecs and resolutions

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- [Instructor] Some time ago Avid developed the DNxHD codec. This goes inside the MXF file wrapper that you see when you look in the Avid media files folder. The DNxHD codec allowed various different data rates that you would choose depending on the purpose of your project. So as you can see from this chart DNxHD 36 is 36 megabits per second and that's really used for offline editing which, of course, is usually perfectly good quality if all you want to see is what's going on in the action. You're not delivering this for broadcast. DNxHD 145 is 145 megabits per second and this is standard high definition broadcast quality. It's actually very good quality and has been used countless times for professional broadcast television. The 175 megabit variant is described by Avid as high quality broadcast codec and as you can see from the numbers the data rate isn't that much higher than the 145 version. Still it is higher quality…

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