Adobe Brings AI Text-Based Editing to Video
Among the most intriguing updates coming to Adobe's video editing and motion graphics software are text-based editing and enhanced transcription in Premiere Pro.
Ahead of NAB 2023, the video industry's major conference in Las Vegas, Adobe also detailed upgrades coming to After Effects and Frame.io. And no tech software announcement can avoid mentioning generative AI these days. Adobe talked up its text-prompt-based image generator, Firefly, and posited some use cases that could someday come to Premiere Pro and After Effects.
“We’re exploring the potential of natural language content creation with Firefly so you can describe what look you want and instantly change the colors and settings to match," Adobe says.
Adobe previously added automatic transcription to Premiere Pro, but with this update, you can edit video based on that text. You can search for words or phrases and add the clip section to the timeline with a click. This also enables you to quickly remove sections where the speaker pauses with ripple deletes based on the transcript. Once you’ve cut and moved the bits around based on the transcript, you can instantly create captions in the project.
These editing features are currently in public beta and are expected to ship in May.
Premiere Pro’s new Automatic Tone Mapping and log video detection automatically manages color in a project. It lets editors mix and match video from SDR and HDR sources, and automatically applys the correct LookUp Tables (LUT), which saves editors from having to search for the right LUT for each source camera and apply it separately.
It’s a simple matter of making sure you check the new Auto Tone Map box in the Sequence Settings panel and the Auto Detect Log Video Color Space box in the
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