Every frame counts: an assistant editor's handbook
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This is a great quick overview of the new Media Intelligence search in Premiere Pro 25.2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5nk2wRdoU
By the way, After Effects 25.2 was just released with honestly one of the biggest features – High Performance Preview Playback.
It takes advantage of how fast modern SSDs are and combines the Disk Cache with RAM Preview so you can reliably play back your whole comp even if it doesn't all fit into RAM!
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/whats-new/2025-2.html
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The Search panel also allows for searching all transcripts across the project. We have a lot more to come with the Search panel.
But Premiere Pro 25.2 has a ton more!
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new/2025-2.html
Generative Extend
Caption Translation
Color management
MKV import support (H.264/AAC)
Dynamic audio waveforms in the timeline
️ Hardware acceleration for Canon Cinema RAW Light on Apple silicon
Fixed issues: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/fixed-issues.html
Premiere Pro 25.2 is out today! It's a big release, with a major new feature I'm very proud of.
Pr now semantically analyzes the content of your video (all on-device), and with the new Search panel you can search for the shot you need with natural language. It's so awesome to be able to find that one shot in a second instead of hunting through bins and skimming stringouts.
More: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/media-intelligence-and-search-panel.html
FAQ: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/media-intelligence-and-search-panel-faq.html
test export of the same timeline to a 720P H265 in "native" Avid versus emulated is about 20% faster, maybe 30 (9 mins vs 6:50). So a nice little bump but it confirms that Intel emulation is extraordinary.
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Hey for all my #PostChat folks: in Final Cut Pro has anyone ever come across a quick way to zoom the timeline to the selected clip(s)?
Pretty cool to see our new
Multicam Flattener app at the top of PVC’s latest Useful Tools for Editors article. #postchat #finalcutpro #fcp #fcpx
https://www.provideocoalition.com/useful-tools-for-editors-its-now-2025-edition/
ProVideo Coalition · Useful Tools for Editors: It's now 2025 edition by Scott Simmons - ProVideo CoalitionIt’s a new year, and it’s time for new Useful Tools for Editors. As always, I’ve tried to include some things across the board that will help with editing and video creation, as well as some things that just might speed up your writing emails. Multicam Flattener One big shortcoming of Final Cut Pro is [...]<p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://www.provideocoalition.com/useful-tools-for-editors-its-now-2025-edition/">Read More...<span class="screen-reader-text"> from Useful Tools for Editors: It’s now 2025 edition</span></a></p>
These are the same clips, in Avid and FCPX. Any idea why Avid randomly adds a minute to the starting source TC? None here. Just the typical random Avid BS. The TCs match properly, just not in Avid for whatever reason.
What a year! In 2024 I graded almost 30k shots. I hope 2025 will be a little quieter 
Reducing saturation to 0 on the Specular and Black zones with their pivot points to affect the bare minimum reduced the flashing pixels from 8-9 per frame to 1-2 so there’s gotta be something happening there.
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Oh, and let me add that while the visual search portion of the new Search panel does use an “AI” model, it is:
• all on device
• not training on your footage
• no extra charge to use
• easy to turn off if you never want to use it
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It’s been a lot of fun bringing this new panel to life. I wish I had this tool when I was an editor!
In addition to the visual search, you can also search for transcripts or metadata across your whole project; even across all open projects (shout out to Productions people).
There’s still a lot more coming before the Search panel is finished, but please do give it a try and let me know how it goes.
Out today in Premiere Pro’s Beta version: a new Search panel with the ability to search your footage by describing the visuals!
Read more: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/media-intelligence-and-search-panel.html
FAQ: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/media-intelligence-and-search-panel-faq.html
Forum post where we’d love your feedback: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-beta-search-panel-finds-the-shot-faster-with-visual-search/m-p/15042130#M10847
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