Adobe Upgrades Premiere Pro and After Effects with Timeline AI and Third-Party Models
Adobe has unveiled new video creation tools that integrate generative AI into professional editing workflows. Premiere Pro now features timeline-based generative media, allowing editors to select a region on a video or audio track and generate content without leaving the editing environment. It supports Adobe's Firefly model and third-party models including Google Veo, Kling, Runway, and Luma. After Effects adds natural language commands for project organization and automation. The updates aim to streamline creative processes.
Adobe has announced a new round of updates to its video creation tools, integrating artificial intelligence features into professional editing workflows. The update focuses on Premiere Pro, adding generative media tools directly to the timeline. Editors can select a region on a video or audio track and use AI to generate video, sound effects, or other content without leaving the current editing environment or switching to a separate AI application. The new tools automatically read project context, recognizing timeline aspect ratio, project settings, and reference footage, and match generation parameters accordingly.
For video generation, Premiere Pro supports Adobe's own Firefly model and can also call third-party models such as Google Veo, Kling, Runway, and Luma. Users can choose different models for specific generation tasks, and the system consolidates these options in a unified interface. Prompt operations, model selection, and parameter adjustments are handled in the background, making generation a standard function within the timeline.
After Effects also receives an upgrade, adding natural language operation capabilities. Users can describe their needs in plain language, including reorganizing project structures, writing expressions, or performing complex operations, without needing to know the corresponding scripting syntax or menu paths. Adobe is gradually building a creative environment that uses natural language as the entry point, where video generation in Premiere Pro and project management and automation in After Effects allow creators to describe their goals directly, with the system invoking the appropriate tools and executing complex steps.