🎬 MCP Adobe Premiere Pro — AI Video Editing Automation
AI meets Premiere Pro. Control your edits with natural language and automate your workflow with Claude or any AI agent, powered by the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
✨ What is This?
This project is an AI-powered automation bridge for Adobe Premiere Pro. It exposes a set of editing tools (via MCP) so you can:
- 🗣️ Talk to your editor (via Claude or other AI agents)
- ⚡ Automate repetitive tasks
- 🧠 Build smarter, context-aware workflows
🧩 Using with UXP DevTools (Experimental)
You can also use this project as a UXP panel in Premiere Pro (24.4+):
- Open Adobe UXP DevTools.
- Click “Add Plugin” and select the
uxp-plugin/folder. - Start the panel in DevTools and open it in Premiere Pro via
Window > Plugins > MCP Bridge (UXP).
⚠️ Note:
- UXP scripting in Premiere Pro is experimental and limited. Some features (like timeline and sequence editing) may not be available yet.
- For full automation, use the CEP (legacy) panel.
🛠️ Supported Tools
📁 Project Management
- create_project — Create a new Premiere Pro project
- open_project — Open an existing project file
- save_project — Save the current project
- save_project_as — Save the project with a new name/location
📂 Media Management
- import_media — Import a media file (video, audio, image)
- import_folder — Import all media files from a folder
- create_bin — Create a new bin (folder) in the project panel
🎬 Sequence Management
- create_sequence — Create a new sequence (timeline)
- duplicate_sequence — Duplicate an existing sequence
- delete_sequence — Delete a sequence
⏱️ Timeline Operations
- add_to_timeline — Add a media clip to a sequence timeline
- remove_from_timeline — Remove a clip from the timeline
- move_clip — Move a clip to a different position
- trim_clip — Adjust the in/out points of a clip
- split_clip — Split a clip at a specific time point
🎨 Effects & Transitions
- apply_effect — Apply a visual or audio effect to a clip
- remove_effect — Remove an effect from a clip
- add_transition — Add a transition between two clips
- add_transition_to_clip — Add a transition to the start or end of a clip
🔊 Audio Operations
- adjust_audio_levels — Adjust the volume of an audio clip
- add_audio_keyframes — Add keyframes to audio levels
- mute_track — Mute or unmute an entire audio track
🎛️ Color Correction
- color_correct — Apply basic color correction adjustments
- apply_lut — Apply a Look-Up Table (LUT) to a clip
📤 Export & Rendering
- export_sequence — Render and export a sequence to a video file
- export_frame — Export a single frame as an image
🎥 Advanced Features
- create_multicam_sequence — Create a multicamera sequence from multiple video clips
- create_proxy_media — Generate proxy versions of media
- auto_edit_to_music — Automatically edit video to music beats
- stabilize_clip — Apply video stabilization
- speed_change — Change the playback speed of a clip
🔍 Project/Media/Sequence Discovery
- list_project_items — List all media items, bins, and assets in the project
- list_sequences — List all sequences in the project
- list_sequence_tracks — List all tracks in a sequence
- get_project_info — Get comprehensive project information
⚠️ What Doesn’t Work (and Why)
❌ Not Supported (Adobe Scripting Limitations)
- add_text_overlay — Text overlays (legacy titles) are deprecated/broken in modern Premiere Pro scripting
- add_shape — Shape/graphics overlays are not supported by Premiere scripting
- Essential Graphics (MOGRTs) — Not scriptable
- Direct pixel manipulation — Not possible
Why? Adobe has removed or deprecated these scripting APIs. Only the features above are reliably scriptable.
🚦 Quick Start
1. Clone and Install
git clone https://github.com/hetpatel-11/Adobe_Premiere_Pro_MCP
cd MCP_Adobe_Premiere_Pro
npm install
2. Build & Start the MCP Server
npm run build
npm start
3. Install the CEP Extension in Premiere Pro
- Copy the
PremiereRemoteextension folder to your Adobe CEP extensions directory:- macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/ - Windows:
%APPDATA%/Adobe/CEP/extensions/
- macOS:
- Enable loading unsigned extensions:
- macOS: Edit
~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.CSXS.9.plistand setPlayerDebugModeto1. - Windows: Use
regeditto setPlayerDebugModeto1underHKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Adobe/CSXS.9. - CEP Debugging Guide
- macOS: Edit
- Restart Premiere Pro.
- Open the extension:
- Go to
Window > Extensions (Legacy) > PremiereRemote. - The panel should show "Ready!" if the bridge is running.
- Go to
4. Connect Claude (or another AI agent)
- Configure Claude to use the MCP server as a tool endpoint.
- Ask Claude to perform editing tasks (see supported features above).
🐞 Known Issues & Limitations
- Text/graphics overlays do not work (see above)
- Some scripting APIs are buggy or version-dependent
- CEP extensions are deprecated in the latest Adobe apps (but still work for now)
- UXP scripting is experimental and limited in Premiere Pro (see above)
- Error handling is robust, but some failures may be silent due to Premiere scripting quirks
- This is a proof-of-concept / starting point — not a polished commercial product
💡 Why This Project Exists
I wanted to see how far AI-powered video editing automation could go in Premiere Pro. There are real limitations, but this project is a great starting point for:
- Automating repetitive editing tasks
- Building smarter AI workflows
- Exploring the boundaries of what’s possible with Adobe scripting
If you want to go further (e.g., advanced graphics/text), you’ll need After Effects scripting, Photoshop, or third-party plugins.
📚 References
🙏 Thanks & Contributions
If you find this useful or want to contribute, feel free to open issues or PRs. Honest feedback and improvements are welcome!