DNxHD Compression Names

Ever since the introduction of the DNx compression, Avid has based the compression names on their data rate per second.

But with the introduction of Media Composer 2019.12, Avid changed the name of the DNxHD compressions to instead reflect the quality of the encoding.

Flame Family products use the new naming convention. This does not affect compatibility of older DNxND media files.

Old Name New Name
DNxHD 36 DNxHD LB
DNxHD 80 DNxHD TR
DNxHD 115 DNxHD SQ
DNxHD 175 DNxHD HQ
DNxHD 175x DNxHD HQX
DNxHD 350x DNxHD 444