Product Comparison

Kyno Standard Kyno Premium

General functionality
Lightning-fast media browser ✔ ✔
Drilldown to flatten entire folder structures ✔ ✔
Quick filtering of content ✔ ✔
Advanced filtering ✔ ✔
Pro-grade player with frame precision and exact timecodes ✔ ✔
Final Cut Pro® integration ✔ ✔
Premiere Pro® integration ✔ ✔
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve® integration ✔ ✔
Avid Media Composer ALE export ✔
Avid Media Composer copy/paste markers ✔
Powerful batch transcode functionality ✔ ✔
Powerful batch file naming engine ✔ ✔
Batch still frame export ✔ ✔
Full access to the support forums ✔ ✔

Metadata
Simple descriptive metadata editing ✔ ✔
Batch editing of metadata ✔ ✔
Configurable metadata columns in list view ✔ ✔
Import/Export Metadata ✔ ✔
Excel export for asset lists (clips) and shot lists (markers & subclips) ✔ ✔
Reporting feature (total duration, formats used etc.) ✔ ✔
Define & batch assign metadata presets ✔
Preassign metadata on removable drives ✔

Playback
Unparalleled playback format support incl. H.264, ProRes, XDCAM, DNxHD/DNxHR and many more ✔ ✔
4K support ✔ ✔
Precise controls & timecode ✔ ✔
Set playback frame rate ✔ ✔
Apply LUTs ✔ ✔
Audio track selection ✔ ✔
Image file support ✔ ✔
RAW image file support ✔ ✔
Audio file support ✔ ✔
Canon C300 support incl. spanning ✔ ✔
Blackmagic RAW support ✔ ✔
Panasonic P2 support ✔
RED RAW R3D support ✔
Avid Op Atom MXF support ✔

Transcoding / Conversion
Transcode to H.264 ✔ ✔
Transcode to ProRes ✔ ✔
Transcode to XDCAM ✔ ✔
Transcode to Cineform ✔ ✔
Transcode to DNxHD ✔
Transcode to MXF (XDCAM, DNxHD, ProRes) ✔
Rewrap to MOV ✔ ✔
Rewrap to MXF ✔
Audio extraction ✔ ✔
Transcode audio to WAV, AIFF, M4A, MP3, MP2, PCM ✔ ✔
Apply LUTs ✔ ✔
Denoise filter ✔ ✔
Configurable denoise filter ✔
Sharpen/blur filter ✔ ✔
Add noise filter ✔ ✔
Frame rate adjustment ✔ ✔
Timecode burn-in ✔ ✔
Advanced audio channel mapping ✔

Verified Camera Media Backup / Offloading
Verified Backup of camera media to a single destination ✔ ✔
Verified Backup of any folder to a single destination ✔ ✔
Industry-standard cryptographic checksum verification using xxHash ✔ ✔
Creation of Media Hash Lists (MHL) for 3rd party verification ✔ ✔
Backup to up to 4 destinations ✔
Configurable hashing algorithm (MD5, SHA1) ✔

Integrations
Share with Frame.io incl. metadata ✔
Archive to Archiware P5 Archive incl. metadata ✔

LUT Support
Camera LUTs ✔ ✔
Creative LUTs ✔ ✔
Sidecar LUTs ✔ ✔
Auto-import LUTs from Final Cut Pro®, Premiere Pro® & DaVinci Resolve® ✔ ✔
LUT preview in player ✔ ✔
Apply LUTs in conversion ✔ ✔

Transfer / Delivery To
Upload files to remote destinations ✔
Integrated rewrapping, transcoding & naming ✔
Deliver metadata ahead of the clips ✔
Delivery of FCP7 & FCPX XML metadata ✔
Delivery of Kyno metadata ✔
FTP/SFTP transfers ✔
File system transfers (e.g. network folder) ✔

Administration
Configurable shared cache location ✔
Configurable metadata location ✔
  • Software product of the year 2019.
    Newsshooter.com
  • “Kyno is the most full-featured media management system I’ve ever seen.”
    Larry Jordan
  • “Kyno is one of the best media management tools available for individuals, small and large teams alike.”
    Cinema5D
  • “Kyno is quite possibly the single most useful piece of supplemental software for video post-production and media creation that I’ve ever used.”
    ProVideo Coalition
  • “A really good piece of software that I recommend.”
    Philip Bloom
  • “Kyno organizes all of your footage in an intuitive fashion.”
    No Film School
  • “A Swiss army knife of video handling.”
    RedShark News