Adobe Tests New Features for Premiere Pro, After Effects & Frame.io

Adobe has released important beta enhancements to Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Frame.io, aimed at speeding up post-production and improving creative workflows. Adobe Creative Cloud products were used by 85% of submissions in the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, highlighting the company’s market dominance. 

These new features were introduced for its video editing tools and cloud-sharing platform on Wednesday. The company announced two new AI features for Adobe Premiere Pro in a blog post. These capabilities are being handed out to the most recent beta builds of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, as well as Frame.IO. Premiere Pro will get two new artificial intelligence (AI) tools that will help users search for the relevant material in their library and add AI-generated caption translations. The business argues that these features are designed to reduce tedium for video pros. They are now accessible in the most recent beta version of the application, so customers on the stable release channel will have to wait a while until the features are rolled out. Adobe has yet to indicate when these functionalities will be available to a wider user base.

While these most recent improvements demonstrate that Adobe is working hard to remain ahead of the curve, they also highlight some of the recurring issues I’ve encountered as an editor. They’re definitely dedicated to providing us with new, inventive tools—sometimes ones we didn’t even realize we needed—but the software’s dependability and high membership fees still leave cause for discontent. It’s difficult not to compare that to more economical, dependable competitors such as DaVinci Resolve, which continue to provide great performance without the same issues.

The first is a new search panel that employs generative AI (the business calls it media intelligence) to analyse natural language text prompts and locate relevant material in the user’s library. Adobe stated that the functionality may be used to discover the proper clip by describing the visuals in the footage, spoken words, or embedded metadata such as shoot date and camera type. Users can additionally combine these information to refine their search.

According to Adobe, users can input “person skating with a lens flare” to find relevant material that matches the description. The same applies to inputting any words spoken in the video.

The Premiere Pro (beta) improvements are largely focused on improving editing efficiency. The Media Intelligence system is a remarkable feature, since it employs artificial intelligence to automatically tag and detect visuals in your movie. This includes items, locations, camera angles, and other metadata, allowing editors to rapidly search for certain footage using natural language.

As an instance, entering “wide shot of a desert landscape” into the new Search panel will immediately return relevant results. This function removes hours of laborious scrubbing through film, making it a game changer for large-scale productions.

Additionally, the beta version of Premiere Pro will include an AI-generated caption translation option. The AI program can automatically translate captions into 17 different languages, which can then be added to the movie as independent caption tracks. Users can also keep numerous tracks visible at once to efficiently edit a video with audio in a different language.

The Adobe After Effects beta will include two new features. Motion designers will welcome the emphasis on performance in the most recent After Effects (beta). The new caching technology is a significant improvement, utilizing both RAM and hard drives to enable faster previews and playing of larger, more complicated compositions without pausing for caching. To reduce wait time, the new system makes use of both the device’s RAM and high-performance connected hard disks. Older systems can now handle large projects with minimal disruptions, preserving creative momentum.

The enhanced HDR support is a step forward. Motion designers working in high dynamic range (HDR) can now correctly monitor and export their work, ensuring that vibrant, eye-catching graphics remain high-quality throughout the production process. Workflow changes make HDR content creation easier than ever, whether using a laptop or professional-grade monitor.

In addition, HDR monitoring is also being implemented on the platform. After Effects will now support Perceptual Quantizer (PQ) and Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) encoders for HDR, allowing users to see their compositions more precisely.

As you may recall from previous coverage, the Canon C400 and C80 will support Camera-to-Cloud (C2C), which is now officially accessible, the company’s cloud-sharing platform Frame.io’s Camera to Cloud (C2C) feature is now compatible with Canon’s C80 and C400 cameras. These are the first Canon cameras to support the cloud platform. It joins other supported brands such as Red, Fujifilm, and Panasonic.

This is one of the most exciting upgrades to Frame.io for every professional in the field using Canon. This functionality automatically uploads proxy files to Frame.io during production. With no need for manual file transfers, editors and narrative producers can begin working on video nearly instantly, even while production is still happening.

The integration enables users taking video with these cameras to immediately submit proxy files to a cloud server, allowing video editing pros to access them. Notably, while proxy files can be used to edit film in Premiere Pro, interlinking with the original material is required before exporting.

Its connectivity also enables teams to collaborate in real time, avoiding delays and the possibility of costly reshoots by detecting and resolving issues early on. Turnaround times are decreasing across the board, and the fast-paced business of filmmaking is only speeding up. The C2C method allows post-production teams to evaluate material sooner, allowing them more time to improve edits and perfect their work before deadlines.

All you need is a Frame.io account, a Canon C80 or C400, a network connection, and a simple six-digit pairing code to begin uploading footage to the Cloud in minutes. As someone who works on huge teams in documentary production, I can see how this may be quite useful. When you’re dealing with a lot of video and tight deadlines, having everything accessible to review and edit right away makes it much simpler to stay organized and keep the entire team on task.

All of these capabilities for Premiere Pro and After Effects are currently available in beta. The Premiere Pro (beta) page has more information on how to access the beta programs.

New features and AI tools are fantastic, but the ultimate worth of editing is in the editor’s experience, not the tools themselves. While speeding up workflows might be beneficial, it frequently feels like a technique for producers to save time and money rather than enhancing the creative process itself.