Bridging the gap between professional video editing and cutting-edge computational power.

In the modern era of post-production, speed is the ultimate currency. As video formats become more complex and AI technologies evolve at an unprecedented pace, editors can no longer afford to spend hours on repetitive, manual tasks.

BAT Server is not just a plugin; it is a sophisticated, high-performance automation ecosystem designed specifically for the EDIUS professional. It acts as a powerful bridge, connecting your EDIUS project directly to the world of advanced AI, high-speed transcoding, and intelligent audio analysis.

BAT Server (v2) for EDIUS

End-User Documentation & Workflow Automation

New EDIUS context-menu entries – via an assistant, no config files

Every function entry in EDIUS’s right-click menu is, at its core, a small .bat0 template file in the BAT Server folder. “Add function...” is the assistant that creates that file for you: you pick which function to add from a neat list, answer a couple of short questions, and BAT Server writes the finished template – the new menu entry is available in the context menu immediately. This lets you extend the context menu with functions that are not pre-installed, or set up the same function under your own name and in your own location.

Trim clips losslessly – no re-encoding, done in seconds

Remove unwanted parts without touching the video codec: ClipCut saves the IN/OUT-marked part of a clip as a separate file – using an FFmpeg stream copy (-c copy). Nothing is re-encoded, so no picture properties are lost and the job runs far faster than any re-encode. The only catch: with GOP-based formats (e.g. H.264) FFmpeg can only cut at the next I-frame – which is exactly what the assistant’s adjustable safety margin in seconds is for.

All the details of a clip – including the projects it is used in

“Which projects am I actually using this clip in – and in which sequences?” ClipInfos answers that question with a right-click: BAT Server assembles an overview page that your default browser opens. It shows all the details EDIUS has recorded for the selected clip – and, most importantly, the list of all projects that use the clip (including bins and timeline sequences, resolution, frame rate, colour space and audio channels). If the media carries GPS metadata (e.g. phone footage), the page also shows a map of the recording location.

Let text be spoken in your voice – voice cloning via Nvidia GPU

Convert2Speech creates spoken-audio files from text – in a cloned voice. The engine is the AI model Chatterbox (Nvidia-GPU accelerated, 23 languages): you supply a short voice sample (WAV) of the desired voice, and BAT Server lets the desired text – from an SRT or VisTitle file, or even from existing spoken audio – be spoken in that voice. Ideal for audiobook passages, podcasts and voice-overs with a consistent timbre.

Clean interlace artifacts – from 50i to smooth progressive, with a right-click

Old interlaced material (DV tapes, DVD, TV recordings) shows annoying comb artifacts in a progressive workflow whenever objects move. The Deinterlace extension converts such a clip to clean progressive video with a right-click, using the FFmpeg engine: when you create the menu entry, the assistant simply asks for your deinterlace method and target format – BAT Server takes care of the rest. The result is filed in the BIN automatically; the original file stays untouched.

Share a video from EDIUS straight to another device – with a single link

Want to show a video right away — to a customer, a colleague, a reviewer — but uploading the file to a file host is in the way? Instant Video Share shares a video clip directly from EDIUS to another device: BAT Server renders a lightweight 720p preview of the clip, and the receiving device (the recipient's phone, tablet or laptop) starts playback as soon as the first frames arrive – while the rest downloads in the background. The video travels directly between the two devices (peer-to-peer) — the server never receives the film. Through the link, both sides can also pin time-stamped comments to the video and jump straight to the respective timecode with a click.

Send a clip straight to your favorite app – player, converter, whatever is installed

OpenWith plugs any installed program into the EDIUS context menu: once set up, the right-click entry launches the chosen application with the selected clip’s file – no detour via Explorer. Handy for, say, auditioning a clip in a specific player, feeding an external analysis tool, or running an external converter on the file.

Custom proxy files, straight in EDIUS

High-resolution material can slow down editing on less powerful machines. ProxyBuilder creates its own reduced proxy files for your video clips with FFmpeg and links them directly to the clip — you decide the format and size, and create proxies on demand, exactly when you need them.

The reference deinterlacer for Avisynth – shipped in BAT Server as ready-made presets

QTGMC is the established deinterlacing standard for Avisynth in video restoration: it separates the fields of interlaced material and reconstructs progressive frames from them, using motion estimation to decide how objects moved between the fields – this keeps even moving objects clean instead of “dissolving”. BAT Server ships QTGMC (version 3.383s) as a portable Avisynth+ installation and offers it through two presets: “Upscale & Deinterlace” (2× to progressive HD) and “Upscale” (upscale to 1080i). This article explains what the presets do technically and what quality levels exist.

From raw footage to finished scenes

Got a long clip full of mixed shots? Scene Detect analyzes the clip optically, finds the scene changes, and creates one clip per scene – so your montages, highlight reels, and social clips start with ready-made building blocks that you just drag onto the timeline.

Cut a person or object out of the frame with AI – as a luma mask for the EDIUS Track Matte

SmartMask isolates the person or the object in the frame automatically using AI (model BiRefNet, Nvidia GPU accelerated) and saves the result as a luma mask (a black-and-white mask video). This mask can be used directly with EDIUS’s “Track Matte” – for example to place titles or graphics behind a person, to swap the person, or to retouch contours. No more manual masking clip by clip.

Mark the text in the transcript – IN and OUT set themselves

Finding one specific line of dialogue in a long clip, zooming into the right moment and re-setting IN and OUT by hand can quickly turn into tedious scrubbing work in the player. Cut by Text (also known as Speech2Player) turns the workflow around: the BAT Server transcribes the clip's audio track with Whisper AI down to word level, and then opens a transcript tab in the EDIUS Player. You simply select the text you are interested in – the player opens the clip at the corresponding position and sets the IN/OUT points automatically. Optionally, the passage is played back automatically (on loop) so you can verify it right away.

Speech in any language? No – in English: transcribe, translate, re-voice

Speech2Speech turns spoken audio in any Whisper-supported language into an English voice-over: the assistant-created entry transcribes the audio with Whisper (model large-v2) and translates the text to English on the way – then the AI voice engine Kokoro (Nvidia GPU) speaks the text in a choice of US or UK English voices. A foreign-language interview or voice-over becomes an English-language audio clip with the same timing.

Subtitles from spoken speech – Whisper with word-exact timing, in three hardware variants

Speech2Subtitle turns an audio file (or the audio of a clip) into an SRT file with exact word timing – using Whisper, the proven AI transcription model. The “Add function...” assistant offers three variants, one per hardware: Intel-optimized (OpenVINO: NPU/GPU/CPU), Nvidia-optimized (Whisper-Faster) or iNPU-optimized (Whisper-NPU for Intel NPUs). All three transcribe in ~90 languages, can optionally translate the result to English, and file the finished SRT directly in the BIN.

Let existing VisTitle subtitles be spoken – English AI voice, Nvidia GPU

Subtitle2Speech gives your existing subtitles a voice: the preset reads a VisTitle subtitle file (.vtsubtle) and produces a WAV file from it using the AI voice engine Kokoro (Nvidia GPU) – in a choice of US or UK English voices, with the time slots of the subtitles. Ideal for creating an English voice-over pass from filmed material with subtitles, without typing the text in again.

Embed an SRT file from disk into your video – as a switchable subtitle track in an MKV

SubtitleMerge combines a video clip with an SRT subtitle file from your disk into a single MKV file – using MKVMerge. The subtitles are embedded as a switchable track (not burned in), and video and audio are copied without re-encoding: fast, lossless, and the finished file plays in any MKV-capable player with selectable subtitles.

Text turned into speech in seconds – Kokoro on OpenVINO, straight into an EDIUS tab

Text2Speech is the fast route from idea to spoken track: via a menu entry in EDIUS you open a Text2Speech tab in the player, type or paste text, pick language and voice, audition the output – and the finished WAV file lands directly in the BIN. It is driven by Kokoro on the OpenVINO framework (Intel NPU/GPU or CPU) – with a smart cache (repeated text is loaded from the cache instead of being computed again), a preview mode, simple input dialogs and an activity log.

Export clips and sequences into other formats – via the EDIUS Render Engine or via FFmpeg

Transcode offers two ways to turn a clip into a file in another format – depending on your requirements:
“Transcode – by FFmpeg Render Engine” renders web-optimized formats (MP4, AV1, WEBM) with the FFmpeg engine – small files, high quality, full control over the format.
“Transcode – by EDIUS Render Engine” uses your own EDIUS export presets (managed in Mync): the output is exactly what your EDIUS export produces – identical to “Export file”, but as a right-click job.

576i50 becomes 1152p50 – QTGMC deinterlaces and doubles resolution and frame rate

Upscale & Deinterlace is the big brother of the plain deinterlacer: based on the Avisynth reference deinterlacer QTGMC, it separates the fields of interlaced material, reconstructs progressive frames via motion estimation and simultaneously upscales them 2× – at doubled frame rate. 576i50 (DV 25 fps) becomes 1152p50: progressive, square-pixel HD material that you can cut directly in a 1080p50 project. SD material thus becomes not just “field-clean” but also scaled up to your current project resolution – in a single right-click job.

AI 2x upscaling with RealESRGAN+ (Nvidia RTX 2000+) – including automatic QTGMC deinterlacing

UpscalePro doubles the resolution of SD material using AI: the RealESRGAN+ AI model (Nvidia GPU accelerated, RTX 2000 series or higher) rebuilds soft, noisy or dated-looking footage into high-resolution images – 576i/576p becomes roughly 1080p. Unlike the QTGMC-based presets (see Upscale & Deinterlace), AI upscaling generates new image information: the AI reconstructs plausible detail instead of merely rearranging existing pixels. Interlaced sources (e.g. DV 576i) are automatically deinterlaced with QTGMC as part of the job – field order, pixel aspect and color space are read directly from the clip. The result: clean, progressive HD material from a single right-click.

Python-based video processing, right on the EDIUS timeline

VapourSynth is a Python-based video processing engine with hundreds of filters – from professional deinterlacing and detail enhancement to audio processing. Using it in EDIUS involves two building blocks: a C++ VapourSynth plugin as the prerequisite, which is what lets EDIUS work with .vpy files at all, and the Vapoursynth Importer from the BAT Server, which appears in EDIUS's Tools menu, wraps a video file into a VapourSynth pipeline, and imports the processed result as a clip into the BIN.

Master the Rhythm

Editing to the beat is essential for music videos, commercials, and high-energy montages. Beat Detect analyzes a clip's audio, finds the beats, and places a marker at each detected beat — so your visual cuts land exactly on the music.