Avid DNxHD
Avid DNxHD ("Digital Nonlinear Extensible High Definition") was a lossy high-definition video post-production codec developed by Avid for multi-generation compositing with reduced storage and bandwidth requirements, incorporating the initial version of the SMPTE VC-3 standard . The latest version (2026) of this standard is now incorporated by the Avid DNxHR codec, which completely contains Avid DNxHD. == Overview == DNxHD is a video codec intended to be usable as both an intermediate format suitable for use while editing and as a presentation format.