Premiere Pro Beta ads visual search!

From Jessica Nuñez at Adobe Community, Now in Beta: Search Panel Finds the shot faster with visual search.

Now in Premiere Pro (beta), AI-powered Media Intelligence automatically identifies visuals such as people, objects, location, camera angles, and more across thousands of clips in seconds. With the new Search panel, use natural language to find these visuals, plus spoken words in transcripts or clips with embedded metadata like shoot date, location, or camera type – all at the same time. The media intelligence analysis is faster than real time and runs locally on your computer, there is no internet connection required. Your media and searches are never used to train Adobe’s AI models. 

This new search can help you at any stage of your edit, whether you’re diving into organizing hours of new footage, or you need to quickly find that one shot you know you’ve seen before.  

This is awesome, and I can’t wait to try it out as this is AI truly helping an editor vs being something to replace an editor (though it will certain hasten less need for assistant editors).

And here is the page on Adobe for the new feature.

What’s New in Premiere Pro (Beta)

And a little more depth on the updated context sensitive Properties Panel that lets you make some changes to multiple clips at once (which is so very exciting).

The color management system is very exciting, and I glad Premiere will take an active role in your color management much like DaVinci Resolve’s Color Managed or ACES workflows, though I do hope it works better than the ARRI AMIRA plug in that was forced on us so long ago.

You can actually read about the Color Management System in the user manual from the previous August 16th, 2024 update, though the manual does not seem to have been updated to the latest and new Properties panel.

And any ProRES acceleration is always welcome, always! I just want some Black Magic acceleration as well!

DIYPhotography on Adobe Premiere Pro Beta’s audio workflow with AI-Tagging

From Aldred at DIY Photography.

I find this interesting as I love the new fade controls in the timeline (I have been using the Beta as it has fixed the timeline issue with an M2 Ultra), though I have still found some issues with tagging short clips, that just refuse to be tagged as dialogue, which is annoying, because the new features are great, but just don’t always work.

In the Premiere Pro Beta it now Mirrors the OS directory Structure on Import, FINALLY!

Posted by Francis-Crossman in the Adobe Support Community:

Finally when you drag folders into premier they will match the Finder structure! WHY HASN’T THIS BEEN LIKE THIS FOREVER?!?!??!?!

Previously it would leave out empty folders, folders with 1 item, and now it will import empty bins!

I always want my structure to match, so this is awesome and I wish it was out today in the normal version.

Adobe Media Encoder Beta adds Rotate & Scaling Features

Adobe announced that they are adding Rotate & Scale to an upcoming beta of Media Encoder.

You asked and we listened! Coming to beta this week are two new features in Media Encoder: the ability to scale video and to rotate video. Related, we’ve also added a feature to flip the output width and height. This makes matching the output to a rotated clip a one-button-click. 

This is great, as the iPhone has been known to record in the wrong orientation and this will easily let you correct it when recompressing to a better format.

Premiere Pro Beta can now click and drag to select multiple track targets

As posted by Marjorie Sacks from Adobe int he Adobe Premiere Pro Beta discussions.

Track targeting just got a lot easier in Premiere Pro (Beta). You can select and target multiple source or target tracks by holding down CMD/CTRL as you click and drag the cursor across multiple track buttons in the timeline panel.

Holding down CMD/CTRL + Shift while dragging will invert the targeted selection.

Yea I could not be happier about this, AVID always did a better job with track selection, and this does a lot to bridge that gap.

Adobe has changed default paste behavior to paste to same track in Premiere Pro’s Beta

Adobe has updated the default paste behavior in Premiere Pro beta, and added 4 new functions that can be added to keyboard shortcuts.

Paste To Same Track is the new default, which is the behavior that I want 90% of the time. I love this because I place things in specific tracks, having a very organized timeline, so I usually wants things to just go where they were in a different place in the timeline.

Old Behavior
New Behavior

And you can also Paste Insert, as well as Paste to Target Track and Paste Insert to Target Track which can also be added to keyboard shortcuts.