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Adobe's Generative Media tool in Premiere Pro creates AI video and audio in the timeline

Generative Media tool in Premiere Pro

Adobe has moved AI video and sound generation straight into the editing timeline with the Generative Media tool in Premiere Pro, which builds context-aware clips that fill gaps in a sequence. The feature was announced on September 8, 2026, days before IBC 2026 opens in Amsterdam on September 11, and it lands with a wider AI update covering Premiere Pro and After Effects.

The workflow stays inside the project. Using the Generative Media tool in Premiere Pro starts with marking a range on a video or audio track where content is missing, then describing what that content should be. Premiere Pro returns fully editable video or audio that can be regenerated and refined in place, and reference frames sampled from the timeline help the generated footage match the visual style of the surrounding edit.

What the Generative Media tool in Premiere Pro can generate

A taskbar beside the selection offers four actions: generate video, generate sound effects, generate soundscape (beta) and generate music (beta). The model choice belongs to the editor rather than the software: clips can be produced with Adobe Firefly or with third-party engines from Google Veo, Runway, Luma and Kling.

AI audio tools and the After Effects assistant

Adobe is expanding audio cleanup in Premiere Pro with a public beta suite of AI tools covering noise reduction, separation of overlapping speakers, automatic music ducking, and independent adjustment of dialogue and ambience. The point is to let editors rebalance a busy mix without moving tracks to another application.

After Effects receives its own public beta addition in the AI Assistant, which responds to plain language. Motion designers can ask it to organize projects that run to thousands of layers, create effects and expressions, and fix issues without writing code. Adobe also noted that Premiere Pro has been named a recipient of the 2026 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award.

Rollout is staged. Soundscape and music generation, the AI audio suite and the After Effects assistant arrive as public betas, while video and sound-effect generation ship in the production update released this week.

Why this matters

For editors, the change shortens the distance between a missing shot and a finished cut. Gaps that once meant a detour to a stock library or a separate generative service can now be filled in place, and because the results stay editable, revisions happen without rebuilding work. Opening the Generative Media tool in Premiere Pro to rival engines such as Google Veo and Runway positions the timeline as the hub where several generation services meet, with Firefly available inside the same workspace.

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