Different to EDIUS X Pro the EDIUS X Workgroup version allows also an offline activation. Therefore, the editing system does not need to be connected to the internet. Generating an eID (EDIUS ID) is possible if you wish to do so, but not mandatory.
Below you find a comparison between EDIUS X Pro and EDIUS X Workgroup:
| Feature | EDIUS X Pro |
EDIUS X Workgroup |
| 8K support (project setting and export) | No | Yes |
| FTP uploading and downloading | No | Yes |
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Title Insertion Mode |
No | Yes |
| Editing while recording capture | No |
Yes |
| Monitor control | No | Yes |
| Audio monitoring mode | No | Yes |
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Loudness meter |
No | Yes |
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Audio bitstream pass-through |
No | Yes |
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Generic MXF file exporting |
No | Yes |
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Video-out conversion (via I/O hardware) |
No | Yes |
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Video-out support for UHD/4K 50/60p (via I/O hardware) |
No | Yes |
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Offline activation and offline editing |
No | Yes |
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Usage of eID can be skipped |
No | Yes |
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Import of Dolby Digital Professional and Dolby Digital Plus formats |
No | Optional |
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Output of Dolby Digital Professional and Dolby Digital Plus formats |
No | Optional |
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GV STRATUS support |
No | Optional in the future |
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EDIUS XRE support |
No | Optional in the future |
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K2 connection (SAN) |
No | Optional |
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K2 connection (FTP) |
No | Optional |
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Avid DNxHD codec Support |
Optional | Yes |
Below you find a comparison between EDIUS Workgroup 9 and EDIUS Pro 9:
| Feature | EDIUS Pro 9 |
EDIUS Workgroup 9 |
Support of integrated subtitles ("Closed Captions") |
Yes | Yes |
| Possibility to select preview quality ("Draft Preview") | No | Yes |
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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 |
| Feature | EDIUS Pro 9 |
EDIUS Workgroup 9 |
| Support of integrated subtitles ("Closed Captions") |
Yes | Yes |
| Possibility to select preview quality ("Draft Preview") | No | Yes |
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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 |
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Loudness Auto Adjust according to R 128 (New in EDIUS 8.51) |
No | Yes |
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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 |
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Optical Flow for framerate conversion and slow motion (New in EDIUS 8.30) |
Yes | Yes |
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New Bin mode including the “Time Code” (New in EDIUS 8.3) |
Yes | Yes |
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Disc Burner authoring in various project settings (New in EDIUS 8.3) |
Yes | Yes |
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High-resolution proxy files (New in EDIUS 8.3) |
Yes | Yes |
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GV Browser improvements (New in EDIUS 8.3) |
Yes | Yes |
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FUJIFILM - F-Log color space in primary color correction filter (New in EDIUS 8.3) |
Yes | Yes |
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64-channel audio support (New in EDIUS 8.3) |
Yes | Yes |
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Import/Export improvements of MXF DNxHD (New in EDIUS 8.3) |
No | Yes |
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Improved GUI for high resolution screens (New in EDIUS 8.3) |
Yes | Yes |
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Installation of EDIUS without Apple QuickTime possible. (New in EDIUS 8.22) |
Yes | Yes |
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ProRes material can be imported and edited natively without Apple QuickTime. (New in EDIUS 8.22) |
Yes | Yes |
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Support for more color spaces by the Primary Color Correction filter.(New in EDIUS 8.22) |
Yes | Yes |
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Custom LUT (.cube) file import for the Primary Color Correction filter. (New in EDIUS 8.22) |
Yes | Yes |
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GPU acceleration for the Primary Color Correction filter. (New in EDIUS 8.22) |
Yes | Yes |
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Improved support of Intel Quick Sync. (New in EDIUS 8.2) |
Yes | Yes |
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Primary color correction (RGB) on LOG or RAW clips. (New in EDIUS 8.2) |
Yes | Yes |
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Support for Sony and Canon RAW decoding. (New in EDIUS 8.2) |
Yes | Yes |
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Motion tracking feature for Mask filter (New in EDIUS 8.2) |
Yes | Yes |
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Support for draft video preview (New in EDIUS 8.2) |
No | Yes |
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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 |
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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 |
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Mync, a personal file-manager, for retrieval and admiration of all your source-material including video, audio and stills |
Yes | Yes |
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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 |
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High DPI support as well as |
Yes | Yes |
| "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 |