Your AI helper can switch Premiere to another project: it opens the project you name, or brings it to the front if it is already open. Nothing is saved or closed, and a project that is already open is not reloaded, so what you have not saved stays. It will not open a project that points at files on another computer on the network, because that could offer your Windows sign-in to that computer: open that one yourself in Premiere.
Fixed
Your AI helper could not take off a transition it had added itself: the bridge said there was none there. Now it can, and it checks afterwards that the transition is gone and the others are still there.
An installer: PremiereAgentBridge-Setup-0.7.0.exe puts the bridge on your computer with its own Python, a Start menu shortcut and an uninstaller, without asking for admin rights. It is not signed yet, so Windows may say "Windows protected your PC": click More info, then Run anyway. The zip still works as before.
Your AI helper can now talk to Premiere through MCP, the standard way AI apps connect to tools, as well as through the command line. Anything that deletes or moves clips shows you what it would do first and only goes ahead once it is confirmed.
Small edits in one go: markers, clip names, turning clips on and off, a setting's value, the sequence's in and out points, track and bin names. They land as one step in Premiere's undo history, and each one is checked afterwards.
The panel tells you when a new version is out, and you can skip that version. The bridge checks GitHub at most once a day and sends nothing about your computer or your projects; you can turn the check off.
A "Copy a problem report" box in the panel (click it, then press Ctrl+C) and a link to GitHub Issues. The report holds versions and check results, never your pairing token, project names or media paths, and you see all of it before copying.
Your helper can save the timeline for other editing apps, as AAF or as Final Cut Pro 7 XML. For AAF, Premiere may show a log window you need to click OK on; the bridge keeps working meanwhile and tells you so.
A problem report the helper can print too, to paste into a GitHub issue.
B-roll can go in as picture only, without its sound landing on your audio tracks, and your AI helper can make a named copy of a sequence for another version of the cut.
Improved
Safer: before the release, a team of AI agents attacked the bridge on a test machine and every hole they found was fixed (the full report is SECURITY_REVIEW.md in the download). The bridge, the panel and your AI helper now prove to each other that they know the pairing secret without ever sending it, so another program cannot pretend to be one of them. Network folders are refused even when they are reached through a shortcut-like link, and UXP Developer Tool only runs for the few seconds it takes to load the panel.
Update the bridge and the panel together: the 0.7 bridge does not talk to a 0.6 panel. Starting the bridge with its shortcut loads the new panel by itself.
Commands start about twice as fast: a simple check now takes about a quarter of a second instead of half a second.
Switching to another sequence is now checked before the helper carries on, so it never edits the wrong sequence after a switch that did not take.
Before removing clips, your AI helper can have the bridge check them by name, so a clip you moved onto that track in the meantime is left alone. An audio effect can go on every clip in a range at once.
Fixed
Moving clips (closing a gap, making room, cutting out a stretch) left their video transitions behind. Now the transitions are put back on their clips and checked afterwards; where Premiere cannot put one back exactly, the helper tells you which one and how to add it by hand.
Vertical clips from Sony and phone cameras, stored sideways with a rotation tag, now fit and fill the frame the way Premiere shows them.
Music in FLAC, Opus or Vorbis, which Premiere cannot read, is turned into a WAV next to the original, and that WAV is imported. Before, a FLAC file could hang the panel.
An icon of its own: a deep purple tile with an orange playhead. It is on the shortcut, in the setup window and on the panel.
A friendlier panel. Its icon is in full colour while the bridge runs and faded when it does not. The first time, it shows two steps: open Claude Code or Codex in a folder for the job, then paste a ready-made first message. In a Chinese Premiere it speaks Chinese.
A Start bridge button on the panel while the bridge is not running.
Restore points: before a risky edit, your helper can copy the sequence (the copy is named “… [restore date time]”) and save the project.
Taking things off again: markers, transitions, effects, keyframes, and items no sequence in the project uses any more.
Moving everything after a point on every track at once, in sync, as one undo step.
Rendering the finished video inside Premiere with one of its presets, then checking its frame size, frame rate and length.
Audio effects by name (DeNoise, for example), and Premiere’s effect presets, such as the picture-in-picture moves.
Subclips, and pointing a clip at a new file once the file is checked to match.
Selecting clips for Premiere’s own panels, so you can turn on Enhance Audio for many clips in one go.
Eased keyframes, for a smooth move such as a slow zoom.
The setup also puts the shortcut in the Start menu.
Improved
Changing volume or size over a stretch of time now changes only the clips fully inside it. A neighbour that just touches it is left alone.
Effects added to a title go before its text, where they actually work.
Every change can be previewed first, stops before changing anything when something is wrong, is one undo step wherever Premiere allows, and is read back afterwards.
Safety: your helper can ask for a change to be refused if the timeline changed since it last read it. More than 300 changes a minute are stopped, as a guard against a runaway script.
Fixed
On Premiere 27.1, pieces cut with versions 0.4.0 to 0.5.1 could look right on the timeline but play silent or blank. Fixed. Ask your helper to check older timelines by rendering them.
YouTube downloads in formats Premiere cannot import (VP9, AV1, Opus) used to hang the panel. Now they are turned away first, with the command that converts them.
Clips whose picture stops before their sound no longer land a few frames short.
Safety: the bridge does not start when another program holds its port, and says which program. Network-share paths are refused, so Windows never offers your sign-in to another computer: put NAS media on a mapped drive letter.
The setup window looks like the website now: pure black, white main buttons, no blurry haze or grey halos. Green, amber and red still mark ready, optional and needs setup, always with an icon and a word.
Also brings everything from 0.4.0 and 0.3.3, which were not released on their own. Update the whole bridge folder at once: an older command line cannot talk to this bridge.
New
Setup in a window: double-click setup_bridge.bat and it checks your computer step by step, with a button for each fix.
Start with one double-click: start_bridge.bat starts the bridge and loads the panel into Premiere by itself, also after Premiere restarts. No more clicking Load in UXP Developer Tool.
Pairing: only programs that can read a secret key in your Windows user folder can control the bridge. Every request goes into a log that is kept 30 days.
Improved
Swapping clips (for a language version, say) keeps a neighbour’s fade where it belongs, and stops before changing anything when an effect cannot come along.
Adding a transition where one already is now says so, instead of quietly keeping the old one.
Opening up a cut warns first when a fade’s keyframe would leave the new part silent or invisible.
Frames that export all black are flagged, so your helper asks you to look before acting on them.
Fixed
Clips with no media file of their own (Enhance Speech results, for example) were measured as silence in the listening check. Now the check says so and listens to Premiere’s own render instead.
A listening check: your helper listens to every cut for breathing room, clipped words, jumps in room tone and clicks, and checks the timeline for slivers, gaps and cuts off the frame grid.
Cutting without a razor: split a clip, cut a stretch out of every track and close the gap in sync, or open up a cut with more of the clip’s own footage. Your volume, size and effects stay.
Premiere’s own Speech-to-Text (Premiere 26.5 or newer).
Clip volume in dB, effect settings and keyframes, and transitions.
Pre-rendered caption movies are trimmed so that no line flashes up or gets cut off at a cut.
Improved
The panel checks every request before it runs anything, and every failure says whether anything changed.
Edits land exactly on frames.
Fixed
A transcript attached to a clip is now read back to check it. Some Premiere 26 builds import an empty transcript; that is reported instead of passing as a success.