Compare the versions of EDIUS

All versions of EDIUS share the same pristine video quality and ease of use that make EDIUS one of the world’s most popular video editing and production solutions. Depending on the size and complexity of your projects, your feature requirements and your budget, you can choose the EDIUS version that fits you best. If you find that you need more facilities, of course, you can upgrade.

EDIUS 11

Feature EDIUS 11 Pro EDIUS 11 Workgroup EDIUS 11 Broadcast
8K support (project setting and export) Yes Yes Yes
FTP uploading and downloading No Yes Yes
Title Insertion Mode No Yes Yes
Editing while recording capture No Yes Yes
Monitor control No Yes Yes
Audio monitoring mode No Yes Yes
Loudness meter No Yes Yes
Audio bitstream pass-through No Yes Yes
Advanced MXF file exporting No Yes Yes
Video-out conversion (via I/O hardware) No Yes Yes
Video-out support for UHD/4K 50/60p (via I/O hardware) No Yes Yes
Offline activation and offline editing No No Yes
Usage of eID can be skipped No No Yes
Import of Dolby Digital Professional and Dolby Digital Plus formats No No Yes
Output of Dolby Digital Professional and Dolby Digital Plus formats No No Yes
K2 connection (SAN) No Optional Optional
K2 connection (FTP) No Optional Optional
Avid DNxHD codec Support MOV only MOV+MXF MOV+MXF

EDIUS X

Feature EDIUS X Pro
EDIUS X Workgroup
8K support (project setting and export) No Yes
FTP uploading and downloading No Yes
Title Insertion Mode No Yes
Editing while recording capture No Yes
Monitor control No Yes
Audio monitoring mode No Yes
Loudness meter No Yes
Audio bitstream pass-through No Yes
Generic MXF file exporting No Yes
Video-out conversion (via I/O hardware) No Yes
Video-out support for UHD/4K 50/60p (via I/O hardware) No Yes
Offline activation and offline editing No Yes
Usage of eID can be skipped No Yes
Import of Dolby Digital Professional and Dolby Digital Plus formats No Optional
Output of Dolby Digital Professional and Dolby Digital Plus formats No Optional
GV STRATUS support No Optional in the future
EDIUS XRE support No Optional in the future
K2 connection (SAN) No Optional
K2 connection (FTP) No Optional
Avid DNxHD codec Support Optional Yes
Feature EDIUS Pro 9 EDIUS Workgroup 9
Support of integrated subtitles (“Closed Captions”) Yes Yes
Possibility to select preview quality (“Draft Preview”) No Yes
Possibility to preview material in UHD (“4K 16:9”) at 50p/60p by using editing cards from e.g. Blackmagic Design or AJA No Yes
Loudness Auto Adjust according to R 128 (New in EDIUS 8.51) No Yes
Mync for managing video, audio and stills including import function, tagging, seraching for keywords and previewing clips in high quality. Upload function to YouTube, Vimeo and FTP-servers (New in EDIUS 8.32) Yes Yes
Optical Flow for framerate conversion and slow motion (New in EDIUS 8.30) Yes Yes
New Bin mode including the “Time Code” (New in EDIUS 8.3) Yes Yes
Disc Burner authoring in various project settings (New in EDIUS 8.3) Yes Yes
High-resolution proxy files (New in EDIUS 8.3) Yes Yes
GV Browser improvements (New in EDIUS 8.3) Yes Yes
FUJIFILM – F-Log color space in primary color correction filter (New in EDIUS 8.3) Yes Yes
64-channel audio support (New in EDIUS 8.3) Yes Yes
Import/Export improvements of MXF DNxHD (New in EDIUS 8.3) No Yes
Improved GUI for high resolution screens (New in EDIUS 8.3) Yes Yes
Installation of EDIUS without Apple QuickTime possible. (New in EDIUS 8.22) Yes Yes
ProRes material can be imported and edited natively without Apple QuickTime. (New in EDIUS 8.22) Yes Yes
Support for more color spaces by the Primary Color Correction filter.(New in EDIUS 8.22) Yes Yes
Custom LUT (.cube) file import for the Primary Color Correction filter. (New in EDIUS 8.22) Yes Yes
GPU acceleration for the Primary Color Correction filter. (New in EDIUS 8.22) Yes Yes
Improved support of Intel Quick Sync. (New in EDIUS 8.2) Yes Yes
Primary color correction (RGB) on LOG or RAW clips. (New in EDIUS 8.2) Yes Yes
Support for Sony and Canon RAW decoding. (New in EDIUS 8.2) Yes Yes
Motion tracking feature for Mask filter (New in EDIUS 8.2) Yes Yes
Support for draft video preview (New in EDIUS 8.2) No Yes
Increased ProRes and DNxHD performance by 250% (New in EDIUS 8.1) No Yes
Support of Project Templates (New in EDIUS 8.1) Yes Yes
Supporting Open FX Plug-ins (New in EDIUS 8.1) Yes Yes
New GUI with an improved scalability for high-res-displays and a sleek, modern design (e.g. to view footage in the bin-window in any desired size) Yes Yes
Mync, a personal file-manager, for retrieval and admiration of all your source-material including video, audio and stills Yes Yes
Supporting the newest camera-models like the Canon XF-AVC Yes Yes
Windows 10 support Yes Yes
Optimized for Intel’s Core i architecture 4th generation (Haswell) Yes Yes
Enhanced MPEG2- and H.264-encoder Yes Yes
Utilizes Intel’s Quick Sync GPU technology intensely speeding up the timeline-performance editing H.264 HD and 4K-footage. Yes Yes
9.xx dot-release-updates free of charge with new features and enhancements within the EDIUS 9-productcycle until the end of 2019 Yes Yes
High DPI support as well as Yes Yes
Support of import from H.265/HEVC
“Edit while Capture”: Sources can be captured and edited at the same time while the recording file is still going on with continuously „growing“ files. Further supported: Metus Ingest or Grass Valley T2 Recoder No Yes,
edit and ingest
Avid DNxHD Codec (MXF) included, ideal to collaborate with Avid cutters Optional Yes
EDIUS Watch Folder, monitoring a folder (local or network-drive) and automatically importing files into the EDIUS-bin No Yes
EDIUS XRE Render Engine Support, allowing an external rendering of EDIUS-projects No Yes
Dolby E Pass-Through, audio data remain unchanged No Yes
ANC Data (closed captioning subtitles) Pass-Through, video-embedded subtitles remain unchanged No Yes
Player-Audio-Monitoring-Mode to monitor any chosen track of a source file No Yes
Loudness Monitoring according to the R128 standard (important when finalizing the audio-mix for a broadcasting-station) No Yes
Connecting to storage-media via FTP (rarely used feature) No Yes
General MX-Exporter (rarely used feature) No Yes
K2 GXF Exporter for K2-Storage-Server, requires K2-Server No Optional
Connecting to GV STRATUS (newsroom, field), requires GV STRATUS-installation No Optional
Connecting to K2 SAN, K2 DyNo (SNFS), requires K2 SAN or K2 DyNo No Optional
Tight integration with the CatDV-MAM-system (Square Box Systems), requires CatDV-MAM No Yes
Tight integration with the Metus-MAM-system, requires Metus-MAM Yes Yes
Dolby Plus Professional Licence, relevant choice for broadcasters No Optional
Internet-access required (In case there is no access possible or prohibited by your companies’ regulations please contact your local EDIUS reseller) Yes (at least once within 60 days) No
Creating a personal EDIUS ID is required to run EDIUS Yes No