Adobe brings timeline-based generative video and audio, smarter audio tools, and an AI Assistant to Premiere and After Effects

The useful part

One of the biggest changes is a new Generative Media tool in Premiere that can create video, sound effects, soundscapes, and music without requiring editors to leave their timelines. Adobe is also bringing its AI Assistant to After Effects in public beta, where it can perform project-wide organizational and technical tasks using natural-language instructions. Generative Media Comes Directly to the Premiere Timeline Adobe's new Generative Media tool is designed to reduce the amount of time editors spend moving between Premiere and external applications or media libraries.

How it works

• Available in public beta and accepts plain-language instructions for multi-step workflows.
• Can work across an entire After Effects project rather than being restricted to the currently open composition.
• Can create motion-design expressions without requiring the user to write code.
• That could be particularly useful for interviews, documentary work, podcasts, and unscripted productions where recording another take is impossible.
• The After Effects implementation, currently in public beta, is designed less around generating finished visual content and more around carrying out technical and organizational work.

What to take from it

Frame.io Mounted Storage can stream full-resolution media directly into a Premiere timeline without first manually downloading it to local storage. Separate Crosstalk addresses another common production problem: two people speaking simultaneously. Those interface changes may not attract as much attention as generative video, but adjustments to tools that editors interact with constantly can have a significant effect on day-to-day efficiency.

Example or evidence

• Enhance Audio builds on the existing Enhance Speech system but gives editors considerably more control over the different elements contained within a recording.
• Users can describe a task in normal language and have the assistant perform operations across a project.
• Less experienced After Effects users may be able to access functions they would otherwise struggle to locate or construct, while experienced motion designers could use it to offload repetitive setup and...
• Next-generation noise reduction building on Enhance Speech.

Details worth keeping

Editors begin by selecting Generative Media and choosing where generated material should appear in the timeline. They can then describe the required content and generate editable video or audio without leaving the project. The system supports Adobe Firefly as well as several third-party generative models, including Google Veo, Kling, Runway, and Luma.

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