Premiere Color Mode exits beta as Adobe accelerates agentic AI

Premiere's Color Mode is out of beta. Adobe's MCP integrations will let third-party agents edit native project files from early 2027.

Adobe has announced some fairly hefty updates across Premiere, Creative Cloud, and Firefly at MAX 2026, including new editing features and support for third-party agents.

In Premiere, Color Mode, first announced back at NAB 2026, is now generally available. Adobe has put a lot of effort into developing this, and response from editors so far seems to have been positive. Elsewhere, there are a lot of AI assists, as you would expect from the company at the moment. The Generative Media tool brings Generate Video, Generate Sound Effects, Generate Soundscape, and Generate Music into the timeline, using Firefly and third-party models from Google, Kling, Runway, and Luma. Enhance Audio separates audio sources for independent mixing, Separate Crosstalk splits overlapping speakers into independent tracks, and Separate Sound Source breaks audio into individual elements. Generative Remove (beta) removes objects such as boom mics and logos: mask and track the object, then click Remove.

AI Assistant (beta) expands in Premiere, accelerating Adobe's move into agentic workflows. Users describe what they need, and the assistant carries out complex, multi-step tasks in the context of their work. New capabilities include applying effects across every clip in a sequence, tracking masked subjects through a frame, and adjusting color and exposure across an entire sequence at once.

As announced last week, Premiere mobile has hundreds of thousands of UMG and WMG tracks available today on iPhone, for personal, non-commercial videos. Android support for the music is coming soon, while Adobe Stock Audio remains available for commercial projects. AI Assistant is also heading to Premiere mobile, initially in private beta. Quick Cut generates an editable first cut from selected footage and a description, while Edit with AI Assistant makes edits from natural-language requests.

AI Assistant (beta) also expands in Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, and Frame.io, as well as the Photoshop beta app. MCP integrations, in preview, allow a third-party agent from the likes of Claude and ChatGPT to call on Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects. They run locally and work directly in native project files, with layers, vectors, bins, and sequences all staying editable.

These are coming to Creative Cloud customers in early 2027 and, if our experience of previous MAXes is anything to go by, we will hear more about them over the next few days.

New Firefly features

Firefly AI Assistant (beta) gains Plan Mode, which lets users review, edit, and approve the agent’s plan before it starts, or let it run on its own. A Model Selector picks a model for the job or leaves it on Auto-Select, and customization lets users set formats, colors, brand guidelines, and characters once and apply them across projects. Creative Agent is also now in Firefly Boards.

Always-on agents, previewed first in Firefly AI Assistant, take on recurring background work, with a dashboard in Firefly for monitoring. On a multi-week video project, for example, an agent can organize incoming footage, remove duplicate clips, and flag camera shake or audio issues for review. Again, this is a bit of a Sneak as they will be available in beta in early 2027.

Other tools rounded up

We'll probably be hearing a lot more about these as MAX continues, but for now here's a whistle-stop of the new and confirmed features:

Photoshop

• Relight
• Generative Restyle
• Remove Tool (related elements)
• Quick Compare
• AI Assisted Editor

Photoshop beta app

• Mockups
• Camera Angles
• Generative Recompose
• Convert to Text Layers
• Timelapse
• Remove Ambient Effect Only

Lightroom

• Glow
• Blemish Removal
• Improved Camera Tethering across Lightroom on Desktop and iPad
• Open Eyes (public beta)

Illustrator

• Refreshed content libraries of brushes, graphic styles, patterns, and gradients
• On-canvas Blend controls

InDesign

• Co-editing (public beta)
• Flex Layout
• Check Document and Rewrite