I Tested the New Claude AI Plugin for Premiere Pro (Is It Worth It?) — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, I've been told that this free clawed
2. 0:02AI plugin for Premiere can take your raw
3. 0:05footage and cut it down to a rough cut
4. 0:08in minutes. I know what you're thinking.
5. 0:10This sounds a little too good to be
6. 0:12true. And that's why me and my editor
7. 0:14are going to test it out to let you know
8. 0:16if it's worth your time. If you're
9. 0:19ready, let's jump on in.
10. 0:23My biggest resistance to AI auto cutting
11. 0:26tools is that out of all of the ones
12. 0:28that I've tested, none of them have
13. 0:31realistic pacing to the cuts. I always
14. 0:34have to go in and fix a few things,
15. 0:36[music] which takes more work. So, when
16. 0:39AutoEedit reached out for me to review
17. 0:42their content creator plugin powered by
18. 0:44Claude AI, I was a little resistant at
19. 0:48first because of my experience, but I
20. 0:50was also intrigued because I've heard
21. 0:53great things about Claude inside of
22. 0:56Premiere. So, I thought, you know, all
23. 0:58my friends are saying I need to try
24. 0:59Claude. Let's give it a go. After you
25. 1:02install the extension in Premiere, go up
26. 1:04to window and under extensions, the
27. 1:07plugin is called AutoEedit Creator Mode.
28. 1:10Open it up and you'll get this window
29. 1:12that works like any other plugin in
30. 1:14Premiere. There are plenty of tools we
31. 1:16can use on Autoedit, but the main
32. 1:18feature is right on top, the Claude
33. 1:21Creator mode, which will turn any raw
34. 1:23talking head footage into an assembled
35. 1:26rough cut. Here I have this raw footage
36. 1:28in the timeline from my recent video
37. 1:30about improving bad footage. But before
38. 1:32we create the rough cut, you might
39. 1:34notice this free forever tools tab. It's
40. 1:37important to note that AutoEedit is free
41. 1:39to download and use. Plus, it comes with
42. 1:42free templates and presets that you can
43. 1:44use forever. You can download and try it
44. 1:47out yourself totally free using my link
45. 1:49below. Now, you might be like, "Well,
46. 1:51what's inside of this free account?"
47. 1:54Well, you'll have access to five free
48. 1:56tools with a six coming soon as you can
49. 1:59see here. And these tools will let us do
50. 2:01things like instantly copy and paste an
51. 2:03image into Premiere, add popular sound
52. 2:06effects and motion graphics presets to
53. 2:09your timeline, and remove silences,
54. 2:12which is what I will use now. It's great
55. 2:14to use this free silence cutter first to
56. 2:17shorten our video. This will save us
57. 2:19some credits later because the longer
58. 2:20the footage is, the more credits we will
59. 2:23need to create a rough cut. And for
60. 2:26pricing context, with their $10 plan, AI
61. 2:29can edit up to 45 minutes worth of
62. 2:31footage per month. So depending on how
63. 2:33long your videos are, this can give you
64. 2:35a lot of videos or just a couple. For
65. 2:38example, each of my videos that I record
66. 2:41are about up to 60 minutes each of raw
67. 2:45footage. So, I wouldn't even be able to
68. 2:47do one video with that plan, but they
69. 2:49have other plans that give you, of
70. 2:50course, more minutes to work with. And
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74. 3:01Now, let's pick the Claude creator mode.
75. 3:05And here, we can tell Claude how to
76. 3:08edit. There are some presets we can pick
77. 3:10like cut filler words and pauses or only
78. 3:14keep last takes which would work well
79. 3:17for this footage since I like to repeat
80. 3:20my lines. I usually like to get one
81. 3:22single long great take. I don't know.
82. 3:25It's just the the inner editor in me is
83. 3:27like I don't want to jump cut, you know?
84. 3:29So, I really like that they kept only
85. 3:32keep last takes because honestly, you
86. 3:35can tell that it was built by a real
87. 3:37creator who probably does things like
88. 3:39me, which is repeat lines until it's
89. 3:42perfect. So, let's just write what we
90. 3:44want into this box. It's also good to
91. 3:47write what the video is about so Claude
92. 3:50can better understand what to keep and
93. 3:52remove things that are off topic. Just
94. 3:55below this box is an important note
95. 3:57since the AI will have to listen to
96. 3:59what's being said and make editing
97. 4:01decisions from that. Any footage that
98. 4:03doesn't include talking won't really
99. 4:05work. So, keep that in mind. Below, we
100. 4:07can choose to create a rough cut from
101. 4:09the whole sequence or just the in andout
102. 4:12points. Since I only have one video in
103. 4:14my timeline, I can just stick with full
104. 4:16sequence. Below that, we can pick a
105. 4:18template that fits our video and the
106. 4:21style that we want. I think tutorial and
107. 4:23educational fit pretty well obviously.
108. 4:26So now we can finally press edit rough
109. 4:30cut. This can take a couple of minutes
110. 4:32depending on how long your footage is.
111. 4:36And look, it's done. So that just took
112. 4:39about 70 seconds, just a little over 1
113. 4:42minute for a 5minute video. I also tried
114. 4:44creating a rough cut from a 15minute
115. 4:47clip and that took about 5 minutes. So,
116. 4:50it really depends on how long your
117. 4:52footage is. Now that it's done, up here,
118. 4:55we can see the amount of segments and
119. 4:57time that got removed from the raw
120. 4:59footage. Although nothing is actually
121. 5:01removed yet, in the plugin, we can jump
122. 5:03to all the cut points and listen to them
123. 5:06first. I love the fact that the plugin
124. 5:09just disables the parts that will be cut
125. 5:11out, so we can easily reenable and
126. 5:14listen to what will be removed before
127. 5:17committing to that decision. For
128. 5:19example, if a camera person films at a
129. 5:22higher frame rate with [clears throat] a
130. 5:23higher shutter speed. For example, if a
131. 5:25camera person is filming with a higher
132. 5:27shutter speed, after listening to some
133. 5:28parts that AutoEedit decided to remove,
134. 5:31I have to say it did a pretty good job
135. 5:33at finding the good takes and putting
136. 5:36everything together. For example, this
137. 5:39part where I'm just hyping myself up and
138. 5:41being a little goofy. Okay, I think that
139. 5:43was pretty solid. It's clearly not part
140. 5:46of the video and is rightfully marked as
141. 5:50cut, like it should be cut, correct? Or
142. 5:53for repeating lines, it did a pretty
143. 5:55good job at picking a good take. Here
144. 5:57are the takes it removed versus what it
145. 6:00kept. Although it might not work that
146. 6:01well if the footage has some intense
147. 6:03movements, although it might not work
148. 6:05that well if the footage has some
149. 6:07intense movements. The the plugin is the
150. 6:10go-to. This plugin is the go-to when it
151. 6:12comes to fixing these issues for any
152. 6:14parts that we want to change from keep
153. 6:15to cut or cut to keep. All right, we can
154. 6:18press the button at the end of the line
155. 6:21here. Overall though, it can help you
156. 6:23spend less time doing the boring work.
157. 6:25For example, if you would edit manually
158. 6:2830 minutes of raw talking head footage,
159. 6:31that can take you anywhere from 45 to 90
160. 6:34minutes because you have to watch it
161. 6:35back, pause, cut, remove that part, or
162. 6:38just label it and keep going through.
163. 6:40But with the help of Claude here, you
164. 6:42can basically cut that down to about 15
165. 6:45to 20 minutes because of course you
166. 6:46still have to review what Claude did. So
167. 6:49you can get a rough cut faster. It's not
168. 6:51editing the whole video for you. It's
169. 6:53just getting out the bad part so you can
170. 6:56get on to the creative part faster. One
171. 6:58feature I did wish it had was the
172. 7:00ability to separate lines. For example,
173. 7:03this part where I redo a line, use the
174. 7:05slip tool to slide it one more frame to
175. 7:08the same direction. one more frame in
176. 7:11the same direction. Sadly, the plugin
177. 7:13didn't catch that and combined the whole
178. 7:16thing into one line, and I can't
179. 7:18separate this line to cut that short
180. 7:20portion out. So, clearly, this feature
181. 7:23is still not perfect. But for a rough
182. 7:26cut, this is already a timesaver. And
183. 7:29for parts like this where I know I will
184. 7:31have to remove later, I can just make a
185. 7:34cut manually and give it another color
186. 7:36label like yellow so I can come back and
187. 7:39remove it later. Back inside the plugin
188. 7:42once we're happy with all the decisions.
189. 7:45Come down here and press apply all. And
190. 7:48as you can see, the timeline just tidies
191. 7:50itself up and all the unwanted segments
192. 7:53are removed. Pretty awesome. And for
193. 7:55parts where I labeled it yellow, we can
194. 7:57select them all and press ripple delete
195. 7:59to get rid of them. Ripple delete is one
196. 8:01of my favorite shortcuts. Before I give
197. 8:03you my reflective thoughts on this
198. 8:05plugin, let's test out a few more tools
199. 8:07inside of this plugin. First, we have
200. 8:09the captions tool to automatically add
201. 8:11animating captions. We can pick a style
202. 8:13from these presets. And right now,
203. 8:15unfortunately, many of the previews for
204. 8:17these presets don't really show up. So,
205. 8:20I hope that they fix that soon. But
206. 8:22right now, we can pick one. We can make
207. 8:25our own adjustments down here, like
208. 8:27changing the font and color. And once
209. 8:29I'm happy with how it looks, I can hit
210. 8:31generate to apply the captions to the
211. 8:34timeline and see the result. For
212. 8:36example, if a camera person is filming
213. 8:38with a higher shutter speed in the
214. 8:40plugin, we can also make edits to the
215. 8:41captions. The edits made here won't be
216. 8:44shown in real time in Premiere's program
217. 8:46window, though. Then hit generate again
218. 8:48to apply the changes, and all the
219. 8:50captions will be replaced with the
220. 8:52edited one. Personally, I feel like the
221. 8:54captioning feature that they've included
222. 8:56here isn't that intuitive, but it's good
223. 8:59for, you know, quick results, and I'm
224. 9:01glad that they're developing it
225. 9:03alongside their other tools, right? So,
226. 9:06this is why we're here reviewing it.
227. 9:07Hopefully, it gets better. And then
228. 9:09there's a brand new chat edit mode. Now,
229. 9:11this mode can also let you create a
230. 9:14rough cut, but instead of giving it one
231. 9:16instruction, you can chat with it
232. 9:18further. So, let's see how well it does.
233. 9:21Here we can start by asking it to make a
234. 9:23rough cut and explain what the video is
235. 9:26about just like we did in Claude Creator
236. 9:28mode. But unlike that mode, we are given
237. 9:30a list of lines from the video with
238. 9:32everything set to keep. Of course, we
239. 9:35can manually pick which line to cut. But
240. 9:38to have AI do it for you, we'll have to
241. 9:40type the instructions down in the chat
242. 9:42box again. And then we'll get a list of
243. 9:45suggested cuts. We can click on each of
244. 9:48them to jump to that part in the
245. 9:50timeline and review it or just press
246. 9:53accept selected down here. The plugin
247. 9:56will then make a cut in the timeline and
248. 9:58disable all the parts that we decided to
249. 10:01cut. I'm not sure why we can't just get
250. 10:04to the result after the first prompt cuz
251. 10:06right now the process feels like a
252. 10:08roundabout way of doing what we can
253. 10:10already do with Claude creator mode.
254. 10:13Although there is some potential here
255. 10:15with this chat mode because we can give
256. 10:17it further instructions to refine the
257. 10:19rough cut before applying the cuts
258. 10:21permanently. Like we can ask it to
259. 10:24tighten up the edit even more and it
260. 10:26will give us a preview of some of the
261. 10:27extra pauses and filler words it found
262. 10:30for us to remove. But for some reason
263. 10:32the long stretches of silence are being
264. 10:35missed. So it's pretty clear that this
265. 10:37chat edit mode is still new. But it's
266. 10:39definitely something to keep an eye on.
267. 10:41So, after trying out the autoedit plugin
268. 10:43and the Claude creator mode feature to
269. 10:46edit a rough cut, here's my honest
270. 10:48opinion. Although, I have been pretty
271. 10:51honest throughout this video. Let's be
272. 10:52real here. A tool that can analyze your
273. 10:55talking head and make a rough cut from
274. 10:57it is nothing new. And having it work
275. 10:59seamlessly directly inside of Premiere
276. 11:01is a helpful starting point. Although
277. 11:03it's not perfect, we as editors still
278. 11:05have to go through the rough cut
279. 11:08manually to clean up some of the cut
280. 11:10points and remove some repeated lines
281. 11:12that were kept in. And that makes sense,
282. 11:15right? We should do that because if we
283. 11:17just press a button to create a rough
284. 11:19cut and never watch it again, is that
285. 11:22even considered a rough cut? As an
286. 11:24editor, we need to know our footage. We
287. 11:27need to know the story that we are
288. 11:29crafting, right? So, you still need to
289. 11:32review it in order to make those
290. 11:34creative decisions, which ends up being
291. 11:37your final cut. This tool is just
292. 11:39helping you do what is considered the
293. 11:42chores of editing, right? Cutting out
294. 11:45the pauses, making it tighter, and then
295. 11:47you go in and you do the fine cutting
296. 11:50after. And it's important to note that
297. 11:51we are not rushing the creative process,
298. 11:54but we have deadlines and lots of
299. 11:56editing projects all the time. So, even
300. 11:58saving 30 minutes here or there will
301. 12:00definitely help. However, since this
302. 12:02plugin only works with footage that has
303. 12:06talking in it, dialogue, it won't work
304. 12:08for every type of project. So, if you
305. 12:10edit a podcast, an explainer video, or
306. 12:13any footage that has talking for that
307. 12:15matter, you can give it a try to see how
308. 12:18it works in your workflow. You can click
309. 12:20my autoedit link down below in the
310. 12:22description box to try it out for free.
311. 12:24And as for the paid features, if you
312. 12:26want to try those out, there is a free
313. 12:28trial. And what's great about this is
314. 12:30you don't have to enter a credit card.
315. 12:32So, thank you AutoEedit for that. So,
316. 12:34let me know in the comments what you
317. 12:36think about this plugin. Is this
318. 12:37something that you would use? [music]
319. 12:39It's important as a community for you
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328. 12:56That's all for this video. Thanks so
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331. 13:03next time. Bye.
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