Premiere AI Assistant (beta) overview

Learn about Premiere AI Assistant and how it helps streamline editing workflows in Adobe Premiere (beta).

Premiere AI Assistant helps you spend less time on repetitive editing tasks and more time on creative decisions. Using natural language prompts, you can ask the AI Assistant to organize media, prepare footage, and assemble an initial edit directly within Premiere.

What is Premiere AI Assistant?

Before editing can begin, editors often spend time organizing footage, reviewing clips, creating markers, and preparing timelines. These tasks are essential, but they can be repetitive and time-consuming.

Premiere AI Assistant (beta) helps streamline these workflows. Instead of performing multiple steps manually, you can describe what you want in plain language. AI Assistant interprets your request and performs the necessary actions in your project.

Whether you're organizing footage, preparing media for editing, or building a rough assembly, AI Assistant helps you get started faster while keeping you in control of the editing process.

How the Assistant works

AI Assistant uses a conversational workflow to help you complete editing tasks.

As AI Assistant works, changes appear directly in your project. You can continue editing while tasks are being completed in the background.

What you can do with the Assistant

AI Assistant currently supports a range of Project panel and Timeline workflows.

Organize projects

• Create and organize bins
• Move and rename clips
• Apply color labels
• Structure project assets

Prepare media

• Generate transcripts
• Detect slates
• Add markers
• Prepare footage for editing

Assemble edits

• Create stringouts
• Build rough assemblies
• Place organized media on a timeline

Additional capabilities will be added throughout the beta.

You're always in control

Everything AI Assistant creates remains fully editable in Premiere.

• All actions are added to Premiere's Undo and History panels.
• Changes can be undone at any time.
• AI Assistant maintains a conversation history so you can review previous requests and actions.
• The assistant only modifies project and timeline content. It does not change your workspace layout or open panels on your behalf.

Key features of the Assistant panel

The Assistant panel can be docked and resized like other Premiere panels. Enter prompts using the prompt bar at the bottom of the panel, and review responses in the conversation area above.

Managing conversations

Each conversation with the assistant is a chat. Start a new one with the Plus   button, and switch between conversations using the tabs along the top of the panel. Keeping a separate chat for each task or line of work helps each stay focused. Open the menu in the panel header to revisit your earlier chats.

Reasoning and tool use

As it works, the assistant shows its thinking. Expand Reasoning on a response to see how it interpreted your request, the steps it planned, and the Premiere tools and AI models it used to carry them out, useful for understanding why it did what it did, and for catching a misunderstanding early.

Feedback buttons

Every response has Thumbs-up   and Thumbs-down   buttons. Use them, along with the feedback option, to let us know what did or didn't work; it's one of the most direct ways to help the assistant improve during the beta. 

Undo

Every action the assistant takes is recorded in Premiere's undo and history stacks. You can step back through anything the assistant changed, the same way you step back through your own edits, so it's always safe to let it try something. Use the Undo   button to reset any changes the assistant made in the last conversational turn. 

Permission settings

Use the Permission settings   button to set how much the assistant can do on its own. With Always ask permission, the assistant checks in before it makes changes, so you can review each step before it happens. With Auto approve permission, it carries out the work without stopping to ask, useful once you trust it with a task and want it to run start to finish without interruption. Choose the mode that fits the task from the controls in the prompt bar, and change it whenever you like.

About Public Beta

AI Assistant is an early public beta and a first step toward a broader assistant. The workflows now available, like organizing footage, preparing media, and building a stringout, are the starting point, and we're actively expanding what you can direct the assistant to do. Capabilities, tools, and behavior will continue to change as the beta develops.

We invite you to try it and share your feedback. Feel free to reach out on the Beta Support Community forums.

How should I test this?

This is a beta release, development is ongoing, and issues can arise from time to time. When they do, please use the bug reporting mechanism or the Thumbs-up   and Thumbs-down   buttons to let us know.

It's not recommended to do client work just yet. For the best experience, work with duplicates of your projects, or import new media into a fresh project, rather than testing on work you can't afford to lose.