Both build a rough cut from a brief. Only one builds it on your timeline.

At a glance

What each one is for

Eddie's pitch is the complete first cut. Hand it a card of raw footage and it logs the A-roll and B-roll, identifies speakers, syncs the angles, cuts to whoever is talking, and can lay in captions, music and stock before you have opened an NLE. For a corporate shoot with three cameras and a pile of cutaways, that is a lot of assistant-editor hours.

Verbatim's pitch is narrower and deeper. It assumes the footage is already in Premiere and already transcribed (Premiere does that for free), and it works on the part of the edit that takes the longest on interview-driven pieces: finding the moments and shaping them into a story. You search the transcript by words or by meaning, pull selects straight onto the sequence, or describe the story in Build Narrative and get a proposed cut across every interview you selected, with the editor's reasons for each choice.

Where the work lands

Eddie exports to your editor "originals relinked," which is the right way to do a hand-off. It is still a hand-off. Once the sequence is in Premiere, Eddie's understanding of it stays in Eddie; to let the assistant take another pass, you go back.

Verbatim never leaves the sequence. The cut it builds is made of your clips with your Lumetri, Motion and audio settings carried over. Every clip is also a story card: drag to reorder, delete and the gap closes, right-click a word to split, undo any of it. When the brief changes, Refine reopens the same conversation on the built cut and applies only what changed, so a day of trimming is not thrown away.

Pricing, worked through

Eddie sells credits that never expire: 1,000 for $10, 5,000 for $45, 15,000 for $120, 50,000 for $350, with 500 free on sign-up. Importing costs about 250 credits per hour of footage before any editing, and Eddie's calculator estimates a 3-hour project at 1,100 to 1,700 credits all in. At the smallest pack that is $11 to $17 per project; cheaper per credit on the bigger packs. Long interview projects, where most of the footage is footage you will not use, are the expensive case.

Verbatim is flat. Cinelore Cloud is $9 a month with the AI included: a monthly AI allowance and a 14-day free trial. Verbatim Perpetual is $79 once; you use your own AI (your ChatGPT subscription, a free Gemini key, a Claude API key, or free offline AI on your Mac) and pay that company directly, with nothing added on top. Transcription is Premiere's and costs nothing either way.

Choose Eddie AI if

• You want the whole first assembly, B-roll and multicam included, before anyone sits at the NLE.
• You cut in Resolve, Final Cut or Avid, or on Windows.
• Captions, music beds, stock and dubbing from the same tool are worth more to you than staying inside Premiere.

Choose Verbatim if

• The piece is driven by what people say, and the hard part is finding and shaping it.
• You want the AI's cut on your timeline, with your effects, where you can keep working it without a round trip.
• Footage must stay on your drive.
• You would rather pay a flat $9 a month or $79 once than meter credits per hour of footage.

Questions

+Is Eddie AI a plugin for Premiere?

No. Eddie is a desktop and web app. Its pricing page says it "exports to your editor" for Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut with originals relinked, so you build the cut in Eddie and continue in the NLE.

+How much does an Eddie AI project cost?

Eddie sells credits: 1,000 for $10, 5,000 for $45, 15,000 for $120, 50,000 for $350, with 500 free to start. Importing costs about 250 credits per hour of footage, and Eddie's own calculator puts a 3-hour project at roughly 1,100 to 1,700 credits.

+Which one handles B-roll and multicam?

Eddie. It logs A-roll and B-roll, syncs multicam angles and cuts to whoever is talking. Verbatim is built for dialogue-driven footage and cuts from the transcript; multicam and synced sources come through as inputs, but it does not log visuals.