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Adobe Premiere Pro MCP

🎬 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+):

  1. Open Adobe UXP DevTools.
  2. Click “Add Plugin” and select the uxp-plugin/ folder.
  3. 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

  1. Copy the PremiereRemote extension folder to your Adobe CEP extensions directory:
    • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/
    • Windows: %APPDATA%/Adobe/CEP/extensions/
  2. Enable loading unsigned extensions:
    • macOS: Edit ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.CSXS.9.plist and set PlayerDebugMode to 1.
    • Windows: Use regedit to set PlayerDebugMode to 1 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Adobe/CSXS.9.
    • CEP Debugging Guide
  3. Restart Premiere Pro.
  4. Open the extension:
    • Go to Window > Extensions (Legacy) > PremiereRemote.
    • The panel should show "Ready!" if the bridge is running.

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!

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