# Get the Best Playback

Get the right playback experience for your needs

July 9, 2026

## Change the picture quality

1. Click the sliders icon to open **View settings**.

2. Pick the mode that fits what you're doing:

- **Auto** (default) — best for most reviews; adapts to your network and device.
   - **Accuracy** — the best available quality, for colour and image review.
   - **Compatibility** — optimised for low-bandwidth networks or legacy devices.

A **Now viewing** line at the top of the panel shows the format being streamed right now — resolution, colour and bit depth (e.g. `FHD · SDR · 4:2:0 · 8-bit`) — and, if converted, what it was converted from.

When you're not on the best available quality, the panel warns that the image is reduced. Switch to **Accuracy** before making any colour, lighting or focus decisions.

## Export the timeline

For the highest-fidelity playback in a screening theatre — from local media rather than a stream — you can export a published review's reel as an interoperable timeline and open it in Avid Media Composer.

Open the review drawer, open the **more actions** menu in its header, and choose a format:

- **OTIO** — OpenTimelineIO, an open timeline interchange format (recommended).
- **EDL** — a widely supported edit decision list (CMX 3600).

You'll get a message confirming the export, or telling you if it couldn't be made.

No media is exported — only the timeline. It carries everything Avid needs to relink automatically (tape, start timecode, clip name and frame rate), so it conforms against your own lab-delivered media with no manual matching, ready to play back in the theatre.