VEFX-Bench: A Holistic Benchmark for Generic Video Editing and Visual Effects

TL;DR

VEFX-Bench introduces a comprehensive dataset, a specialized reward model, and a benchmark for evaluating AI-assisted video editing systems, addressing the lack of standardized evaluation tools.

Contribution

The paper presents VEFX-Dataset, VEFX-Reward, and VEFX-Bench, enabling standardized, human-aligned assessment of video editing quality and system performance.

Findings

VEFX-Reward correlates better with human judgments than existing models.

Benchmarking reveals current systems struggle with visual plausibility and instruction adherence.

The dataset covers 5,049 examples across 9 editing categories with detailed labels.

Abstract

As AI-assisted video creation becomes increasingly practical, instruction-guided video editing has become essential for refining generated or captured footage to meet professional requirements. Yet the field still lacks both a large-scale human-annotated dataset with complete editing examples and a standardized evaluator for comparing editing systems. Existing resources are limited by small scale, missing edited outputs, or the absence of human quality labels, while current evaluation often relies on expensive manual inspection or generic vision-language model judges that are not specialized for editing quality. We introduce VEFX-Dataset, a human-annotated dataset containing 5,049 video editing examples across 9 major editing categories and 32 subcategories, each labeled along three decoupled dimensions: Instruction Following, Rendering Quality, and Edit Exclusivity. Building on VEFX-Dataset, we propose VEFX-Reward, a reward model designed specifically for video editing quality assessment. VEFX-Reward jointly processes the source video, the editing instruction, and the edited video, and predicts per-dimension quality scores via ordinal regression. We further release VEFX-Bench, a benchmark of 300 curated video-prompt pairs for standardized comparison of editing systems. Experiments show that VEFX-Reward aligns more strongly with human judgments than generic VLM judges and prior reward models on both standard IQA/VQA metrics and group-wise preference evaluation. Using VEFX-Reward as an evaluator, we benchmark representative commercial and open-source video editing systems, revealing a persistent gap between visual plausibility, instruction following, and edit locality in current models. Our project page is https://xiangbogaobarry.github.io/VEFX-Bench/.