Adobe introduces a suite of AI-powered features across Premiere Pro and After Effects, including generative media, advanced audio controls, and an AI assistant, aiming to streamline workflows and keep editors within the timeline environment.
Adobe has expanded its AI push across Premiere Pro and After Effects with a set of tools aimed at speeding up editing, filling gaps in sequences and automating routine post-production work. The latest release adds generative video, sound effects, soundscapes and music in Premiere Pro, alongside new audio clean-up features, while After Effects gains an AI Assistant that can carry out tasks through plain-language prompts. Adobe said the changes are designed to keep editors working inside the timeline rather than moving between separate tools. According to Adobe’s announcement, the company is also widening its cloud-based workflow with Frame.io Mounted Storage.
The centrepiece is the Generative Media Tool in Premiere Pro, which lets editors select a section of the timeline, describe what they want and generate context-aware clips that remain editable within the project. Adobe says the tool supports its own Firefly model as well as partner systems from Google Veo, Kling, Runway and Luma, with users able to choose a model for each generation. The feature set includes Generate Video for extending or filling shots, Generate Sound Effects for timed audio cues, Generate Soundscape for ambient layers matched to picture, and Generate Music for original tracks with tempo and looping controls. Adobe said the music output carries commercial-use rights across media.
Adobe is also adding more control over sound. New audio tools in Premiere Pro include Enhance Audio, which builds on the company’s existing speech-clean-up work with more granular control over dialogue, music, ambience and effects; Separate Crosstalk, which splits overlapping voices into independent tracks; Dynamic Auto Ducking, which balances speech against music automatically; and a revised time-stretch engine that changes clip length while aiming to preserve pitch and tone. In practical terms, these updates are meant to reduce the amount of manual keyframing and re-recording often needed in dense interview or multi-layered scenes.
After Effects is getting a more ambitious AI Assistant. Adobe says it can inspect a composition, work across projects containing thousands of layers and execute tasks from natural-language instructions, including motion-design expressions that would otherwise require code. In Premiere Pro, the same assistant can organise assets, batch-rename clips and add markers. Adobe is also adding Colour Mode updates, including new Style Modules and an Auto Colour command that adjusts temperature and exposure across a clip, a group or an entire sequence. The company has also redesigned the Properties and Effects panels to make navigation faster.
The rollout is staged. Adobe says the Generative Media Tool is available in Premiere Pro, while Generate Soundscape and Generate Music are in beta. Enhance Audio, Separate Crosstalk and Dynamic Auto Ducking are in public beta, as is the AI Assistant in After Effects. Colour Mode updates are in beta, and Frame.io Mounted Storage is available to all accounts. Adobe also said the Television Academy will recognise Premiere Pro with an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award at the 2026 Emmys, marking 35 years of the software.
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