A high-quality
video production
codec that works on both Mac and PCs and can scale from standard-definition to 4k film resolution. Cineform is a wavelet codec (not a DCT codec) that is often used as a digital intermediary codec for editing video captured in formats like HDV that, because of the way they’re compressed, are difficult to edit on many systems.
See also “A Complete Guide to Video Codecs” on WebVideoUniverse.com.