Find the highlights in minutes, not hours.
For editors who turn long recordings into highlights and cutdowns. AI Editor transcribes your timeline and lifts the strongest moments above your footage, ranked by confidence. The sifting is done. The cutting is still yours.
Every feature free for 7 days. No card, no email.
The problem
Scrub. Listen. Replay.
You have a 90-minute interview and need a 3-minute highlights cut. Or a 10-minute cutdown of the full episode. So you scrub, you listen, you replay. An hour later, you are still hunting for the good bits.
On a long recording, cutting is not the slow part. Deciding is. There is always far more footage than story.
Raw footage
01:31:20:00
About 3% of the footage.
The fix
Best moments. On top. Ranked.
Imagine the strongest lines already sitting above your timeline before you press play. AI Editor cuts them out and lifts them one track per confidence level. Your highlights cut starts on the top track. Your footage stays exactly where it was.
How it works
A panel inside Premiere. Three steps. You never leave your timeline.
Step 01
Transcribe
Set In and Out, or use the whole sequence, and hit Transcribe. Every word lands in the panel with its own timecode. Need captions anyway? Export SRT or plain text. It works in languages Premiere does not transcribe natively, too.
- OpenAI, Groq or ElevenLabs
- Word-level timecodes
- SRT and TXT export
[00:12:38:05 - 00:12:38:11] So
[00:12:38:12 - 00:12:38:23] people
[00:12:38:24 - 00:12:39:07] ask
[00:12:39:08 - 00:12:39:14] me
[00:12:39:15 - 00:12:39:24] what
[00:12:40:02 - 00:12:40:09] I
[00:12:40:10 - 00:12:40:21] film.
Step 02
Tell it what you need
No prompt writing. Pick what the cut is for, like interview highlights, a trailer or a social reel. Add a volume, a focus, a quote length and a few words about your footage, and the instruction writes itself. Found a setup you like? Save it as a preset. Prefer your own words? Switch to Custom prompt.
- Four blocks, not a blank box
- Presets for every project
- Custom prompt when you want it
Step 03
Hit Edit
The model you choose reads the whole transcript. It razors your timeline at every strong moment and lifts each one up by how confident it is that it matches your brief. Every pick gets a marker with a short note.
- OpenAI, Claude or Gemini
- Or a local model, free to run
- A marker on every pick
Edit generation · pick one
Review
A head start, not a finished cut.
The top track is the gold. Jump from marker to marker and review the best moments first, instead of hunting for them. Every call is still yours.
Built for real timelines
Stacked cameras, filler words, cuts that clip a syllable. Version 1.4 handles the messy parts.
Made for stacked camera angles
Only your topmost occupied video track is cut and promoted. The angles below stay in sync, and missing tracks are created for you.
Pauses and filler, gone in one keypress
Flip one switch and it also flags pauses, silences, false starts and the ums and uhs. They are cut on every angle and left selected. Shift+Delete ripples them out.
Cuts that land on the words
Every select starts on the first frame of its first word and ends after its last. Handles add a few frames of room (4 by default) and stop at the next word.
Local models
Run edits on Ollama or LM Studio. The edit step stays on your machine and costs nothing.
Presets that travel
Saved on your machine, not in the project. Load them anywhere. They survive updates.
A marker on every pick
Each select gets a marker with a short AI note and its confidence level. Jump straight there.
Captions included
Export the transcript as SRT or TXT. The transcription pass pays for itself.
More languages than Premiere
Tested with English, Polish and Norwegian. If the AI understands it, it works.
In and Out anywhere
Process a section or the whole sequence. The transcript maps back to sequence time.
Nothing is deleted
Your original material stays on the timeline, and Ctrl+Z steps back through the whole thing.
Updates in place
The panel tells you when a new version is out. Keys, settings and presets carry over.
Two computers per license
One key, two machines. Deactivate one to move your seat.
Pricing
No subscription traps.
Most AI plugins want a monthly fee forever, plus credits you do not control. AI Editor is a one-time payment. You bring your own API key, so you pay your provider only for what you process. Use it daily or once a month.
$0.10–0.30
to process a 30-minute timeline
$0
for edits on a local model
AI Editor for Premiere Pro
One-time payment. Yours to keep.
- Every feature in version 1.4
- All future updates, free
- One license, two computers
- OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or a local model
- 7-day free trial first
Secure checkout. License key on your receipt.
Is it for you?
Made for highlights and cutdowns
- Highlight reels from interviews and talks
- Episode cutdowns and trailers
- Social clips from long recordings
- Event, conference and webinar recaps
- Single camera or stacked angles
Not the right tool for
- Tightly scripted footage where most of it makes the cut
- Anyone who wants AI to deliver the finished edit
- Automatic camera switching by speaker
- Final Cut, Avid or DaVinci Resolve. It is Premiere Pro only
What editors say
“I appreciate that it's 'pay as you go'. I used to prompt ChatGPT for selects. Now I can do it without leaving Premiere.”
“This plugin is a game-changer for handling overwhelming amounts of footage and text. It perfectly narrows down the information, but crucially, it leaves the final creative decision in my hands, ensuring the edit keeps that essential human touch. Another huge benefit is the ability to generate Polish transcripts—something you just can't do natively inside Premiere Pro. Highly recommended!”
More to watch
Quick look, under a minute
The original demo. It shows an earlier version, 1.4 does a lot more.
Questions
What kind of edits is it for?
Highlights and cutdowns. Any job where a long recording becomes a shorter piece: a highlight reel from an interview or a talk, a 10-minute cut of a 90-minute episode, a trailer, social clips or an event recap. If most of your footage makes the final cut, it will not save you much.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Download the plugin and every feature is free for 7 days. The trial starts the first time you transcribe or edit, and needs no card or email. You still use your own API key during the trial, so your AI provider bills you for what you process.
What does it cost to run?
The plugin is a one-time payment. The AI work is billed by your provider to your own API key, so you pay only for what you process. A 30-minute timeline costs about $0.10 to $0.30 to process, depending on the model you pick. Edits on a local model (Ollama or LM Studio) cost nothing. Transcription still runs through OpenAI, Groq or ElevenLabs.
I've never used an API key. Is setup hard?
No. The user manual walks you through getting a key and pasting it into the panel. The whole setup takes a few minutes.
Will it pick the same moments I would?
Not always, and it doesn't have to. It's a head start, not a finished cut. You jump from marker to marker and make the call. In practice the confidence levels are quite accurate, so the top track is where you start.
How do I unlock it after buying?
Paste the license key from your receipt under Settings > License in the panel. Nothing to reinstall. One key works on two computers, and Deactivate this computer frees a seat if you switch machines.
Are updates free?
Yes. The panel checks once a day and tells you when a new version is out. A new version installs over the old one, and your API keys, settings and presets carry over.
Does it work with multicam and multi-track timelines?
Yes. AI Editor cuts and promotes your topmost occupied video track and leaves the angles below it untouched, so stacked camera angles stay in sync. Missing destination tracks are created for you.
Can it cut out filler words and dead air?
Yes. Turn on pause detection and the AI also flags long pauses, dead air, false starts, and thinking sounds like um and uh. Those ranges are cut on every video track and left selected, so Shift+Delete ripple-deletes them across all your angles at once.
Do my In and Out points have to start at the beginning of the sequence?
No. Set In and Out anywhere on the timeline and the transcript is mapped back to sequence time automatically. Leave them unset to process the whole sequence.
Is my footage secure?
Your API keys are encrypted and stored locally on your machine and are never written to your project files. Audio and transcripts are sent only to the AI provider you pick, over encrypted connections, and are subject to that provider data policy. With a local model, the edit step never leaves your computer.
Do I need an internet connection?
Yes, for transcription. Edits need one too, unless you run them on a local model with Ollama or LM Studio.
Every setting is explained in the user manual (PDF).
The sifting is done.
The cutting is still yours.
Find the highlights in minutes, not hours. Try every feature free for 7 days, no card, no email.