Adobe extends leadership in video: unleashing new AI-powered creation in Firefly, reinventing color for editors in Premiere

Adobe extends leadership in video: unleashing new AI-powered creation in Firefly, reinventing color for editors in Premiere

Ely Greenfield April 17, 2026

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Whether you're generating and editing video in Firefly, grading color or editing a complex sequence in Premiere, or collaborating across a distributed team in Frame.io - Adobe's new wave of video innovations will help advance how you make, edit and share compelling video.

Among the powerful new features introduced today are:

New capabilities in the Firefly Video Editor and the addition of the powerful Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni video models in Adobe Firefly.

The introduction of brand-new Color Mode in Premiere (beta), a first-of-its-kind color grading experience built from the ground up specifically for editors.

The debut of Frame.io Drive, a new desktop application that lets you work with Frame.io projects as if they're stored locally.

These advancements span our creative portfolio and reflect our commitment to empowering everyone to create.

It's never been a better time to be a video creator with Adobe Firefly Firefly is Adobe's all-in-one AI creative studio, with 30+ industry-leading models and world-class editing tools - and today, it gets significantly more powerful for video.

Firefly Video Editor: Generate, edit, and finish, all in one place Firefly Video Editor is the browser-based editor where your Firefly generations become finished stories. Combine generated clips, music, and your own footage in a lightweight, multi-track timeline, edit by timeline or by text, and export in the format your story needs. We've continued to build the experience with your feedback and today, whether you're generating content directly in Firefly Video Editor or uploading your own footage, we're launching new capabilities that make it easier than ever to deliver studio-quality results.

Audio upgrades are now available directly inside the Firefly Video Editor. They include Enhance Speech, the award-winning feature that automatically cleans up dialogue, already loved by creators who use Premiere and Podcast. With Firefly's audio innovations, you can manage noise and reverb and balance levels across speech, music, and ambience to create a clear, natural mix. Whether you're cleaning up a talking-head video filmed in a noisy room, removing background music from a social clip, or polishing a vlog recorded outdoors, enhanced audio gives you precise control over your sound, all in a few clicks.

Adobe Stock is now integrated directly into the Firefly Video Editor. Access over 800 million licensed assets, including video, images, audio, and sound effects, without leaving your workflow. Generate new content, upload your own, and pull from Stock, all in one place.

These upgrades join recent innovations like Quick Cut, which takes you from raw footage to a structured first cut in seconds, making Firefly Video Editor the place to take your video from idea all the way through to finished story. Firefly also integrates seamlessly with Adobe Premiere. Visualize your ideas, create storyboards or generate b-roll in Firefly Boards. When you're ready to move from ideation to production, send images and videos directly into your Premiere project on desktop, without having to manually download and import.

Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni are now in Firefly Kling 3.0 is a powerful, all-purpose AI video model that focuses on smart storyboarding and audio-visual sync. It's ideal for fast, high-quality video production. Kling 3.0 Omni is the more advanced version, designed for professional control and consistency, delivering video character subjects, stronger consistency, and the ability to specify each shot's duration, angle, and camera movement. They join more than 30 industry-leading models already available in Firefly, including Nano Banana 2, Veo 3.1 and Runway Gen-4.5, giving creators more choice than ever in how they generate video - all in one place.

Learn more about all that's new in Firefly here.

And while today's updates make every step of video creation more powerful, we're also working on something that changes the steps themselves. Firefly AI Assistant, a new assistant powered by Adobe's creative agent and coming soon to the Firefly app, introduces a new way to create with power and precision of Adobe's creative suite. Describe the outcome you want with your own words, and the assistant will orchestrate and execute complex, multi-step workflows across Adobe's Creative Cloud apps - including Premiere, Firefly, Photoshop, Lightroom, Express and more - to get you there. Learn more here.

The world's leading media and entertainment companies are also putting Firefly to work at scale. With Adobe Firefly Foundry, studios and creators can tune Firefly's commercially safe AI models to their unique brand and franchise content, accelerating storytelling from ideation through post-production without compromising creative control. Learn more about Adobe Firefly Foundry here.

Color Mode: A landmark color-grading experience built from the ground up for editors Editing video used to be defined by the cut. These days, if you're an editor, you're probably doing everything yourself from end to end, including the hardest part of the workflow: color. For too long, proper color grading meant one of two things: hand it off to a professional colorist or fight your way through applications that pull you out of your edit entirely and force you to study out-of-reach pro-colorist tools that were never designed for you.

To solve that pain, today we're releasing Color Mode in Premiere (beta), a first-of-its-kind color-grading experience purpose-built for the way editors actually think and work. For the first time, professional color tools meet you where you are, ma

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