Best Editing Studios in Dublin (2026)

Introduction

Dublin has 6 editing studios worth shortlisting in 2026, and all of them are post houses or production facilities with edit suites. Picture editing here tends to sit alongside grading, sound and VFX under one roof, and we did not find an editing-only company with a fixed Dublin base that we could verify.

The work comes from three directions: Irish commercials for brands such as Tesco Ireland, Sky Ireland and Tourism Ireland; drama and features supported by Section 481 tax relief; and factual and entertainment television for RTÉ and others. The Editing award at the 2026 IFTAs went to Allyn Quigley for Christy.

Every studio below has a Dublin base on its own website or trade listing, with Greater Dublin included. We chose them for stated editing facilities and for recent or well-known credits. The list is unranked, because a commercial, a feature and a factual series need different things from a cutting room.

The best editing studios in Dublin

1. Screen Scene

Operating since 1985 · Merrion Square · screenscene.ie

Screen Scene is a post house on Upper Mount Street offering picture, sound and VFX for film, drama, commercials and television, with SSVFX as its visual effects arm and a second office in London. Its commercials team includes editors, animators, colourists and producers, and its unscripted team lists online editors.

Recent commercials credited on LBB include Tourism Ireland’s “The Island That Goes Beyond” with Grey London, PTSB’s “Upgrade My Home” with Publicis Dublin, and Toyota’s “The Speech”. Unscripted credits include First Dates Ireland, Ireland’s Fittest Family and Mrs Robinson, which won the George Morrison Feature Documentary award at the 2025 IFTAs. The site does not spell out an offline service, so ask whether your project would be cut in-house or arrive locked for finishing.

2. First Element

Founded 1998 · Fitzwilliam Square · firstelement.ie

First Element describes itself as a creative boutique and has worked in Dublin post-production and VFX since 1998. It covers the whole chain from dailies through offline editorial, colour, VFX, finishing and delivery, with Amy O’Connell as senior offline editor and Bernard Rogan as CEO.

Titles listed for 2026 include the drama Infraction and the feature Hallima, following Horseshoe, Cooper & Fry and All That Glitters in 2025. The listings do not state its role on each title, so it is worth asking which projects were cut there and which came in for finishing.

3. EGG Post Production

Founded 2004 · Fitzwilliam Square · egg.ie

EGG was founded in 2004 by Dublin-based editors and has grown into a full-service post and VFX facility with more than 70 artists, reporting BAFTA and IFTA wins and nominations. Picture work happens on Fitzwilliam Street Upper, in Avid offline cutting rooms running on EditShare, and EGG VFX has its own base in Dún Laoghaire.

Guy Montgomery is head of editing, overseeing offline and cutting his own projects. Producers and directors quoted on the site mention the international drama Borderline, series 2 of Faithless, and a fast overnight edit for the IFTAs, which is a useful reference if your schedule is tight.

4. Outer Limits

Founded 2013 · Dún Laoghaire · outerlimits.ie

Outer Limits is a boutique post facility founded in 2013, with 13,000 sq. ft. of offices in Dún Laoghaire. It specialises in colour and VFX, and it also runs a number of offline suites across its two buildings, using Avid Media Composer with centralised storage so a project can move between rooms. Drama, features and documentary series are its stated offline work.

Credits on its site include Normal People, Conversations With Friends, The Dry, Kneecap, The Quiet Girl, Small Town, Big Story and Evil Dead Rise, for clients including Netflix, Amazon Studios, the BBC, Hulu and RTÉ. The list does not separate cutting from finishing, so confirm the scope when you ask for references.

5. High Wire Post Production

Owned by Bizet Media · Pearse Street · highwire.ie

High Wire has worked in Dublin for over 25 years and offers editing, grading, sound, subtitling, audio description and graphics. Bizet Media, the parent company of Milk VFX, acquired it in 2023. Its subtitling goes back to 1997, when it began supplying Irish-to-English subtitles for TG4.

Its edit suites are available for dry hire, with Avid and Adobe Creative Cloud connected to central storage, plus remote options. That suits a production bringing its own editor. Portfolio titles include Citizens of Boomtown, The Irish Civil War and Fanning at Whelans, which points to documentary and music work.

6. Giant Studios

Irish company · Finglas · giantstudios.ie

Giant Studios is a creative video agency and post facility in North City Business Park, Finglas, with both in-house and freelance editors. Its dedicated edit suite, the cutting room, handles transcoding, organising, editing, assembly, grading and mastering, using Avid Media Composer, Adobe’s creative tools, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

Work on its site includes “It’s Not Just a Cartoon” for Boulder Media, a TV spot for Beachmount Homepark and an industrial promo for Actavo. It is a practical option for brand, corporate and short-form projects that need sound mixing, captions and archiving from the same team, at a different scale from the drama houses above.

What to look for in a Dublin editing studio

Start by separating offline from finishing. Many Dublin credit lists combine the two, so a famous title may have been graded or delivered at a facility without being cut there. Ask which projects were edited on site and by whom, and ask to see cuts that resemble your brief.

Check how much of the post chain you want in one place. Most studios here also offer grading, sound and VFX, which can shorten conform and turnover. If your cut is going elsewhere for grade or mix, ask about the turnover formats and who manages them.

Dublin’s pool of drama and feature cutting rooms is small, and productions with Section 481 relief often have firm dates. Book suites and named editors early, and ask whether the editor is staff or freelance. If Irish spend matters to your finance plan, your accountant or production lawyer should confirm how post costs are treated.

Look closely at how rushes, cuts and notes move around. Ask about central storage, remote viewing and how notes are logged, particularly when the director, agency or broadcaster is outside Ireland. A clear review routine saves time in the last week of the edit, when several versions may be live at once.

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Finding a shot is often the slow part of an edit. Audio and video transcription turns uploaded footage and interviews into searchable text with clickable timestamps, and search works by meaning across transcribed footage, documents and images, then jumps to the moment in the file. For factual work with long interviews, that gives assistants a quick route to a line of dialogue.

Review runs through sharing. Share a cut with the client or director as a commenter (shared links work without sign-up), and they can leave timestamped comments on video and audio and draw on the video frame to mark a shot. Stills can be marked up the same way, with a comment attached to the drawing. The team then marks each comment completed, so a round of notes works like a checklist. Review and approval sets out the workflow.

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Frequently asked questions

Which is the best editing studio in Dublin?

The right studio depends on the project. For scripted work, First Element, EGG and Outer Limits all list offline editing and long drama credits. Screen Scene has a steady run of commercials credited on LBB through 2026. High Wire suits productions bringing their own editor, and Giant Studios suits brand and corporate work.

What is the difference between offline and online editing?

Offline is the creative cut, usually made with lower-resolution proxy files. Online follows once the cut is locked: the edit is conformed to the full-quality media, finished and prepared for delivery. Several Dublin studios list both, with EGG naming separate head of editing and online editor roles.

Can I hire an edit suite in Dublin without an editor?

Yes. High Wire offers dry hire of its edit suites on Pearse Street, with Avid and Adobe Creative Cloud connected to central storage. Other studios may rent rooms by arrangement, so ask them directly.

Do Dublin editing studios also handle colour and sound?

Most on this list do. Screen Scene, EGG, First Element, Outer Limits and High Wire all offer grading and sound alongside editing, and Giant Studios offers grading and sound mixing with audio partners for some finishing work. For firms chosen for those specialisms, see our lists of colour grading studios in Dublin and post-production companies in Dublin.

Who won the IFTA for editing in 2026?

Allyn Quigley won the Editing award at the 2026 Irish Film and Television Academy Awards for Christy.

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