So Avid is changing the codec naming from the usual DNxHD 36, 120, 185 and 185x (25p) to DNxHD LB, SQ, HQ and HQx.
Now, I've been involved with pushing Red Digital Cinema to implement MXF recording on their cameras and it's now possible to shoot with Red Weapon 6K with both R3D RAW and Avid MXFs at the same time. However, they use the new naming and that would be ok, as long as the quality was on par with the old version of the codec.
DNxHD 36 is supposed to be the go to codec for editorial that looks good enough for reviewing edits and client approvals. The corresponding codec should be DNxHD LB but it's no where close to the quality of DNxHD 36. I'm very surprised that something that's supposed to look the same looks this awful. There's blocky compression all over the image and it's just bad in all ways possible. The only way is to step up to DNxHD SQ, but that codec is way heavier to work from on a laptop with a regular USB3.0 drive (which most client works are done from) while taking up unnecessary space on both the Red Minimag recording cards and drives for editiorial.
Seriously, how can Avid mess this up this badly?