Avid's DNxHD codec approved for VC-3 standard
Avid has been working with the SMPTE organization for two years, and can finally announce that its DNxHD codec, intended for use in HD postproduction, has been approved as compliant with the newly created VC-3 standard. The upshot of this is a standard that can be used to work with and transfer high quality HD media at lower bitrates and file sizes, without being locked into just one hardware manufacturer. We'll have to wait and see who else adopts this standard, and what cost/time savings are to be had, but things are looking up for our art house production of Format War: The Tale of Two Brothers, Blue and Red.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Truth Teller @ Feb 13th 2008 1:53PM
VC-3.
You have to laugh.
Making Blu-ray's layer sizes and peak raw bit-rate even more pointless.
Still, it'll leave plenty of room for all that 'security' BS they're going to shove down you PS3 fanboys willing throats, eh?
domerdel @ Feb 13th 2008 4:22PM
you make no sense.
Sam Winter @ Feb 14th 2008 4:54AM
VC-3 is a high-bitrate lossless post-production format you DUMBASS! It has NOTHING to do with normal transfer encoding for home video.
But then again I wouldn't expect a rational argument from the reigning king of bullshit. Are we a little butt-hurt from our inferior format losing? If you are so distraught, I'm sure Nfinity would be happy to come over to your logic-obscured universe and cuddle with you.
Truth Teller @ Feb 14th 2008 7:19AM
LMAO
As usual the PS3 game cionsole kids can't see the wood for the trees.
This is about advances in compression technology.
That means my comments about Blu-ray's capacities being redundant & already outdated stand.....and this will be very relevant with downloading high def.
Ignore the truth if you like.
I know you can't abide to hear anything less that devotional to your beloved but there you go.
Also have to LMAO at your violent/abusive anal/gay sex obsessions getting an airing again.
Closet case.
Too funny.
xemumanic @ Feb 13th 2008 2:08PM
CassilineKnight, have at it.
Maybe something like this:
Where's the comparisons to VC-1 and AVC? The compression ratios may turn out to be the same or worse. No one is going to even care. Especially when this format war is all but over, for a THIRD format to come of it? Yeah, right.
Cass-D @ Feb 13th 2008 2:16PM
Damn this is funny. Blu had to play catchup at first to HD-DVD using the VC1 Codec now we have VC3 waiting in the gates. You have to laugh :)
CharlieX @ Feb 13th 2008 2:57PM
It blows VC-1 and AVC out of the water, but also at MUCH larger filesizes. It's a mastering quality compressed codec for use in post production
xemumanic @ Feb 13th 2008 3:03PM
Yeah, I'd been reading around, this is a format for the pros to use, not for those who consume the media.
And even then, if I wanted to be like the dynamic duo, I'd mention that this would only be useful on something that has the capacity that Blu Ray has, but I won't. :P
shakes2 @ Feb 13th 2008 4:36PM
technically, the reply to this comment is absurd. We would be talking about a format that would make even your theorhetical 75GB discs the relative size necessary for a TV show in highest quality. Understandably that would be higher than 1080p at whatever framerate you are currently running. As a side note, the optical capacity of HD hit 100GB in lab tests on four layer discs from disc production companies, so just like the three layer BD-RE's we havent been seeing, HD's can be even larger but really it doesnt matter. I have a hunch we will be leaving the optical disc market for containing media before we need that much storage. Just like we are seeing with some software on video game systems emerging, discs might become keys with small amounts of personalized or special content while the remainder of the information will be downloaded or transfered via a secondary proxy.
1stGreg @ Feb 13th 2008 3:51PM
This is a Post-Prod format Lie Teller, you idiot.
It is intended to carry HD information without or little loss on quality, but with limited bandwidth (for RT treatments by NLEs and to be easier on the HDs).
VC3 is not intended to save space on plastic discs for consumers.
And even if there was a declination with that goal, VC3 has been developped by AVID and SMPTE, not MS, and thus:
"DNxHD is intended as an open standard. Ikegami's Editcam camera system for example records directly into DNxHD encoding. Such material is immediately accessible by editing platforms that support the DNxHD codec. The source code for the Avid DNxHD codec is licensable free of charge."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNxHD_codec
But maybe you were thinking about VC-2 ?
Too bad, despite misinformation from some members of AVS/ engadget, I finally found some interesting facts about this.
VC-2 is being reviewd by the SMPTE, and has been finalized on Jan. 21st 2008. The other name it is known under is Dirac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_%28codec%29
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp-pdf-files/WHP159.pdf
It has been developped by the BBC, and is also under open standard licence.
Morale: If a new gen codec were to show up at this point in time, be it VC-3 or VC-2, Blu Ray could use it just as much as the dead HD-DVD.
Come on man, stop BSing around.