Adobe's New AI-powered Premiere Pro Features Eradicate Boring Audio Editing Tasks

Adobe has introduced new AI features to Premiere Pro to streamline audio editing workflows. Updates in the public beta launching Tuesday include interactive fade handles for quicker custom audio transitions, and enhanced speech correction tools to improve dialogue quality. Other additions are AI-powered tagging that automatically identifies and labels audio clips by category, reducing time spent manually locating editing tools. Redesigned clip badges also aim to speed up identifying and applying audio effects. The updates ultimately target reducing repetitive editing tasks and giving users easier access to common audio editing functions directly in Premiere Pro's main timeline interface. The Verge adds: Additional quality-of-life improvements being added to the Premiere Pro beta include having waveforms (the graphical representation of sound patterns) automatically resize when track height is adjusted in the editing timeline, and updated colors for clips that make them easier to see. These should grant editors more control over how their timeline can be visually customized to achieve a layout that best complements their personal workflow.

"AI Powered"

[argStyopa]

I'm going to keep beating this drum, even though it's pointless:

WE DON'T HAVE AI. CALLING THESE FEATURES AI-POWERED IS A LIE.

They are simply "features", and can be well-appreciated as automating shitty dull bits of audio editing. That's a genuinely good feature!

They don't have to have a fancy new (actually-meaningless) term attached to be useful.

Re:"AI Powered"

[EvilSS]

I'm working browser plugin to remove references to AI in articles. It's going to be powered by AI.

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[argStyopa]

Goddamn I wish I had mod points.

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[akunkel]

Not if my AI-powered extension blocker extension that blocks AI extensions is installed first. Of course, my extension would then realize it must remove itself, causing a deadlock, breaking your browser, preventing you from seeing any AI related articles as well as the rest of the internet.

Re: "AI Powered"

[Guru2Newbie]

I, for one, welcome our self-deleting AI overlords.

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[Njovich]

Without knowing the algorithm, how do you know it doesn't use an algorithm that comes from AI? It seems like a lot of people are picking 'nothing is AI except AGI' as a hill to die on. Well that's theie prerogative to pick whatever meaning they want for AI (just like Adobe can pick whatever meaning they want), but it doesn't match what the AI science calls AI.

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[bill_mcgonigle]

An AGI toaster would burn your toast occasionally as it experiments to improve itself.

We really want something short of AGI in most cases. Like, AGi makes it worse, not better.

I think horses are modestly intelligent - but they can't do physics, much less make toast.

People who think only physicists have intelligence aren't worth arguing with, really.

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[geekmux]

They don't have to have a fancy new (actually-meaningless) term attached to be useful.

Well now. That's not a very nice thing to say about the (annoyingly-profitable) style of marketing driven by hype and bullshit.

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[quetwo]

Would you rather them claim it's blockchain, NFT or VR driven?

that won't work

[CEC-P]

Hey, professional editor and former full time Youtuber here. This won't work or save any time at all. It can't detect multiple takes that we stack up in real time and edit out later, which is the #1 most common edit. Additionally, the #1 biggest time sink is watching the entire thing through once before encoding and uploading it. That's why even million+ sub channels don't do it at all. They just trust that all their edits were right the first time via seeing the gaps or high speed scrubbing. So it's actually slower to have AI do it then you watch it through and babysit it to make sure it didn't screw things up than it is to just do the edits at light speed and hit encode and trust that you didn't make any mistakes and never watch it through once in its entirely. I don't recommend it but honestly 75% of the time, that's what I do.

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[Rockoon]

all I know is, in adobe I can select a bit of the audio and it will remove the thing I selected without removing any background audio that is also going on

if its not ai its still a seriously powerful feature

audacity cant do that without a plugin and I'm pretty sure such a plugin doesnt exist (because nobody programs for a nyquist lisp that doesnt actually compile)

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[Rockoon]

Nope.

You think what audiacity did/does is what I described, but is doesnt.

Words have meaning and every single one that I used is important., All of them. Not almost all of them. All of them.

Will it get politicians to answer the question?

[Bruce66423]

It promises:

'enhanced speech correction tools to improve dialogue quality'

dialogue means engaging with the other person...

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[smooth wombat]

'enhanced speech correction tools to improve dialogue quality'

If it can make sense of this garbage [snopes.com], it wins the prize.

Audacity FTW

[0xG]

Open source, free, large support community.
Lots of plugins.
And especially:
Fuck Adobe.

Re:Audacity FTW

[bill_mcgonigle]

I've been using Adobe's free 'podcast' tool to clean up some audio lectures from the 1950's captured on a poor in-room mic.

Their tool doesn't make it sound like a recording studio but it does sound like board-out from a lectern mic in 1995.

It's much easier to listen to.

How can I do this with Audacity? I've used it for about 30 years but never noticed neural-net capabilities.

Local processing would be much easier!