This codec is used by the MainConcept digital video editing software. It is widely seen as one of the best DV codecs in existance, offering excellent quality and speed.

The codec is a COmpressor/DECompressor that provides enhanced rendering speed and quality to a variety of editing software, and allows low-priced OHCI Firewire cards to be used with the popular Adobe Premiere program. Most of these cards are bundled with software which is not compatible with Premiere, and which uses an inferior codec that introduces significant quality loss during rendering (the process of applying transitions, titles or other changes to frames of video.)

MainConcept also offers a high-quality Motion JPEG codec, which allows users of many popular video editing cards to play back their creations on computers that do not have the hardware installed. The Motion JPEG codec offers a complete, software-only solution which is also ideal for devices like webcams and surveillance equipment.