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Video Quality Options for Playback
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Video Quality Options for Playback
Your Avid editing application provides a range of video quality options for playback. Depending
on your system configuration and the complexity of your sequence, you might need to switch to
a lower quality option to avoid missing frames or choppy video during real-time playback.
The options available vary depending on your attached hardware. Some third party hardware
might not support Draft Quality and Best Performance options.
The options are also different when you are working in MultiCamera Mode. For more
information, see “Real-time Playback in MultiCamera Mode” on page 1300.
Your Avid editing application can only play back interlaced stereoscopic material using one of
the Full Quality options. When you are working with interlaced stereoscopic material, other
options are not available.
Your Avid editing application also provides an option that improves image quality during
playback of mixed-format sequences where material requires resizing. You might need to
deselect this option to avoid missing frames or choppy video during real-time playback.
The first of the following tables describes the video quality options. The second of the following
tables lists the options available for each configuration.
Video Quality
Name and Icon Description
Full Quality Processes and plays the full image raster for the project. Uses a bit depth of 8 bits.
This option provides the highest video playback quality by processing every image pixel. In
interlaced projects, this option processes the full width of every line in both fields. In
progressive projects, this option processes the full width of every scan line.
Full Quality 10-bit Processes and plays the full image raster for the project, as described for Full Quality in the
previous row. However, this option uses a bit depth of 10 bits, which provides higher quality
processing for some effects. For more information, see the “Change the Bit Depth for
Effects Processing” section in “Options for Controlling Real-Time Effects Playback” in the
Help.
DNxHD Native Processes and plays the full image raster of DNxHD native media only. This option does not
process any effects in the sequence or any media that is not DNxHD encoded. Non-DNxHD
media is replaced by black frames.