Adobe Firefly’s video editor is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage and B-roll and create a first draft of the final video based on your instructions.
Typically, you’ll need to upload your footage and B-roll to a video editor and manually adjust transitions. Quick Cut allows users to describe in natural language what they want to add to their video. The tool automatically edits unrelated parts of the footage and brings different takes together, using the appropriate footage to create transitions between cuts.
Users can also select frames from B-roll and create short transitions using one of the video models available within Firefly.
Use prompt boxes within the Firefly video editor to specify settings such as aspect ratio and pacing between transitions, as well as add optional B-roll footage. Users can apply quick cuts to the entire project, a specific timeline, or selected clips.
Adobe emphasized that the purpose of Quick Cut is to provide a first draft, so editors need to adjust elements, paste takes, and work on transitions to put the video together.
Mike Folgner, product lead for AI and next-generation video tools, told TechCrunch: “When we talk to our users who are creators and marketers, the biggest issue they’re really communicating is the need for rapid response and the need for time-saving techniques to get to their creative vision as quickly as possible.”
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“One thing we know is that some of the mundane parts that come with video (editing), like just putting the selections in order, are not really where they find the joy or the difference. They find the joy in putting their own spin on it. So Quick Cuts is intended to help creators who have a range of media find their stories very quickly and get to story cuts as quickly as possible,” he added.
Adobe promotes regular updates to video-related tools. In December, it launched a new timeline-based video editor that enables layer and prompt-based editing. The editor treats various objects as layers, allowing you to edit them using prompts and tools such as resizing and rotating.
The company also added prompt-based editing capabilities to Firefly, allowing users to tell the video model how to edit video elements, colors, and camera angles, as well as a timeline view to easily adjust frames, sound, and other characteristics.
