🎬 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

2. Build & Start the MCP Server

3. Install the CEP Extension in Premiere Pro

1. Copy the 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

• Adobe Premiere Pro Scripting Guide

• Adobe CEP Resources

🙏 Thanks & Contributions

If you find this useful or want to contribute, feel free to open issues or PRs. Honest feedback and improvements are welcome!