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.
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.
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.
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: