Adobe Firefly’s video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage
Source: TechCrunch
Quick Cut: AI‑Powered First Drafts in Adobe Firefly
The video editor in Adobe Firefly now includes a feature called Quick Cut, which uses AI to edit footage and B‑roll and generate a first draft of the final video based on natural‑language instructions.
How Quick Cut works
- Upload footage and B‑roll as usual.
- In the prompt box, describe the desired video (e.g., style, aspect ratio, pacing).
- Quick Cut automatically:
- Removes irrelevant parts of the footage.
- Assembles the selected takes.
- Inserts appropriate B‑roll or generated transitions between cuts.
You can apply Quick Cut to the entire project, a specific timeline, or only selected clips. The prompt box also lets you specify settings such as aspect ratio and transition pacing, or add optional B‑roll footage.
Using B‑roll and video models
Quick Cut allows you to pick frames from your B‑roll and use one of the video models available within Firefly to create short transition clips.
What Adobe says
“As we talk to our users, who are creators and marketers, the biggest problem they actually communicate is the need for fast turnaround, the need for time‑saving techniques that just let them get to their creative vision as fast as possible,”
— Mike Folgner, product lead for AI and next‑generation video tools, told TechCrunch.
“One thing we do know is that some of the mundane parts that come with video [editing], like just getting the selects in order, that’s not really where they find joy and difference. They find joy in putting their spin on it. So Quick Cut is meant to help creators who have a set of media find the story very quickly and just get to a story cut as fast as possible,” he added.
Adobe emphasizes that Quick Cut is intended to deliver a first draft; editors will still need to fine‑tune elements, adjust takes, and refine transitions to complete the video.
Recent Adobe Firefly video updates
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In December, Adobe released a timeline‑based video editor that introduced layers and prompt‑based editing, allowing users to treat objects as layers and edit them via prompts or tools such as resize and rotate.
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The company also added prompt‑based editing capabilities to Firefly, enabling users to instruct the video model on editing video elements, colors, and camera angles, plus a timeline view for adjusting frames, sounds, and other characteristics.
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