7th

Medium

6:1 compression, lowest hardware requirements

7th 420

Good

This is 2:1 compression, and can be the best compromise between quality and performance

High performance disks required

7th 420 Z

Good

2:1 compression with lossless compression.

High performance CPU and disks required

7th 422

Excellent

This is 1.5:1 compression, and improves on the 420 format for quality.

High performance disks required

7th 422 Z

Excellent

1.5:1 compression with lossless compression.

High performance CPU and disks required

7th 422 10 bit

Excellent

Added colour depth.

This is 1.5:1 compression, and improves on the 420 format for quality.

High performance disks required

7th RGB Z

Perfect

Lossless compression.

High performance CPU and disks required

7th 444

Perfect

No compression

High performance disks required

7th 444A

Perfect

No compression

High performance disks required
Alpha Layer

7th HapQ (YCgCoS)

Good to Excellent

3:1 compression

YUV 422

Excellent

Raw, single 422 frames in 2VUY 8-bit format.

SSD disks required

DPX

Perfect

No compression, can be 8 or 10-bit

SSD disks required

CIN

Perfect

No compression, can be 8 or 10-bit

SSD disks required

A7S

Perfect

No compression (can be losslessly compressed), can be 8 or 10-bit, RGB or 422 colour space.

SSD disks required

TGA

Perfect

Uncompressed or RLE compression, 24-bit (can have 8-bit alpha plane) or 16-bit (optional 1-bit alpha plane). Single file per frame TGA files are supported (will require SSD disks).

SGI

Perfect

No compression, 8-bit

SSD disks required