Premiere AI Assistant overview

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, assemble an initial edit, and refine picture and sound directly within Premiere. Add reference files or selections from your project to give it context, and create custom skills for workflows you repeat.

What is Premiere AI Assistant?

Preparing footage for editing involves organizing media, reviewing clips, adding markers, and setting up timelines. These tasks are part of the editing workflow and often require repetitive manual steps. Premiere AI Assistant helps streamline these workflows by allowing you to describe what you want in plain language instead of performing multiple steps manually. AI Assistant interprets your request and performs the necessary actions in your project.

Use AI Assistant to organize footage, create rough assemblies, and add captions or effects. You can review and adjust the results as part of your editing workflow.

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. 

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.

Manage 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. Conversations are tied to a project, so you only see its previous conversations when that project is open. Use the menu in the panel header to revisit them.

Review 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.

Undo assistant actions

The assistant's edits in Premiere are recorded in its undo and history stacks. You can step back through these changes the same way you step back through your own edits. Use the Undo   button to reset edits made in Premiere during the last conversational turn.

Manage permissions

Use the Permission mode   button in the prompt bar to control when the assistant asks for approval before taking action. Select Always ask permission to require approval before every action, Only ask before disk and generative actions to require approval for actions such as writing files or generating media while allowing other editing actions without approval, or Never ask permission to let the assistant carry out actions without requesting approval. You can change the permission setting at any time.

Work with files on disk

AI Assistant can write working files to a scratchpad on your disk as part of an editing task. It can use this space to create caption files and support work such as effects, reframing, audio edits, masks, color grading, text, and graphics. Use permission settings to choose whether the assistant asks before disk and generative actions.

Control AI Assistant actions and edits

You can review and refine AI Assistant's edits directly in Premiere. Any edits made in Premiere are recorded in the Undo and History panels, so you can easily track or reverse changes. AI Assistant also maintains a conversation history for each project, allowing you to revisit previous requests and actions whenever the project is open. You can use permission settings to control when the assistant asks for approval before taking action. The assistant won't change your workspace layout or open panels on your behalf.

Provide feedback

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.

Custom skills

Create custom skills to save instructions for tasks you repeat, such as setting up bins or applying your studio's naming conventions. A skill gives the assistant a consistent way to approach that work. 

Enterprise access

For enterprise customers, administrators can disable AI Assistant by disabling Firefly Agents in Admin Center. Learn more about managing Firefly Agents.