AI rough cut tools for Premiere, sorted by the questions that matter.

The table

Verbatim

A panel inside Premiere that reads the transcript Premiere already made, finds the moments you ask for, and builds the rough cut on your own timeline. Runs inside Premiere (25.6+) as a native panel on Adobe's current UXP plugin platform. macOS 13+.

Search the transcript by exact words or by describing the moment. Click a line or drag across words to put a select on the timeline. Or open Build Narrative, describe the story across every interview you selected, and get a proposed cut with the editor's reasons, which you reorder, trim and approve before anything is built. The clips land with your Lumetri, Motion and audio settings carried over, and every one is a story card you can drag, split or delete with undo.

Footage never leaves your drive. Only transcript text and your prompt go to the AI you chose; with the offline option (Ollama, on your Mac), nothing leaves the machine.

• Cinelore Cloud: $9/mo or $97/yr, AI included; a monthly AI allowance that covers a typical month of editing; 14-day free trial.
• Verbatim Perpetual: $79 once; use your own AI — a ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription, a free Gemini key, a Claude API key, or free offline AI on your Mac (Ollama); two machines; all v1.x updates.

Honest limits:

• Premiere only today (DaVinci Resolve in development, Final Cut planned).
• macOS only.
• Built for dialogue-driven footage: interviews, podcasts, talking heads. It does not log B-roll or search visuals.
• Needs Premiere's transcript first (Text panel → Transcribe), which is free and built in.

About Verbatim · Click through the demo

Premiere Text-Based Editing

Adobe's built-in transcript tools: transcribe clips, search the text, select a passage and Insert it into the sequence, and edit the sequence transcript to remove material.

In Premiere: Built into Premiere. Free with your subscription.

Footage: Transcription runs on your machine.

• Included with Premiere.

Strong where: Free, always there, and the transcripts it makes are exactly what Verbatim reads.

Limits: Manual. You search, select and insert one passage at a time; nothing proposes a cut, weaves interviews together, or explains a choice.

Best for: Everyone, as the starting point. It is the transcript layer the plugins build on.

Chat Video Pro

A native extension for Premiere sold on aescripts whose Story Cutter "analyzes speech, detects hooks, removes filler, and assembles the rough cut directly on your timeline."

In Premiere: Runs inside Premiere as an extension.

Footage: Not stated on the listing.

• $149.99 on aescripts; the listing says "No Subscriptions • No Markups • No Watermarks."

Strong where: Inside Premiere, perpetual price, cuts straight onto the timeline.

Limits: Positioned around hooks and filler removal for creator content rather than multi-interview story building.

Best for: Creators cutting single-speaker content who want filler and weak takes removed automatically.

Transcriptive Rough Cutter

Digital Anarchy's transcription panel for Premiere. Deleting text in the transcript deleted the matching video, which gave you an instant rough cut; PowerSearch searched those transcripts across a project.

In Premiere: A CEP panel inside Premiere, sold as a $199 perpetual license with transcription billed per minute on top.

Footage: Media was sent to Digital Anarchy's transcription services (Transcriptive A.I. or Speechmatics) to be transcribed.

• Panel: $199 USD, one-time.
• Transcription: $0.08/min (Transcriptive A.I.), $0.15/min pay-as-you-go or $0.12/min prepaid (AI Premium).
• Discontinued 1 May 2026: no new transcription, prepaid credits no longer sold, yearly subscriptions do not renew.

Strong where: For years it was the only transcript-to-sequence tool that lived inside Premiere. Transcripts from other sources can still be aligned with the free Alignment function.

Limits: Discontinued. Digital Anarchy says existing panels keep working only "as long as Adobe continues to support CEP panels." Never had a describe-the-story mode: the rough cut was whatever text you deleted.

Best for: Nobody new. If you already own it and have transcripts, it still plays them back; it cannot make new ones.

Replacing Transcriptive? Start here.

Eddie AI

"Describe the story. Eddie builds the first cut." A standalone AI assistant editor (Mac, Windows and web) that logs A-roll and B-roll, syncs multicam, cuts to who is talking, and adds captions, music and stock.

In Premiere: Not a Premiere plugin. Eddie "exports to your editor" (Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut, originals relinked); you continue in the NLE from that export.

Footage: Not stated on the pricing page. Eddie says "your media stays yours" and imports from local drives, Google Drive, Dropbox and LucidLink.

• Credits, bought once: 1,000 for $10 (about an hour of footage), 5,000 for $45, 15,000 for $120, 50,000 for $350. 500 free credits to start.
• Importing costs about 250 credits per hour of footage; editing and export cost more. Eddie's own calculator puts a 3-hour project at roughly 1,100 to 1,700 credits.
• A yearly subscription with a lower per-credit price is mentioned without a figure.

Strong where: Does far more than dialogue: multicam switching, B-roll logging, captions, music, dubbing, social clips. Works with Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut and (in beta) Avid. Credits never expire; no subscription required.

Limits: The cut is built in Eddie and handed to Premiere. Refining it means going back to Eddie or finishing by hand. Every hour of footage costs credits to import before you have cut anything; long interview projects add up. A general-purpose first cut, not a tool for working the transcript line by line inside your sequence.

Best for: Editors who want a complete first assembly from raw footage, B-roll included, and are happy to take it from there in the NLE.

Verbatim vs Eddie AI, in detail.

Descript

A standalone, cloud-based editor where you edit video and audio by editing the transcript, with recording, Studio Sound, screen capture and publishing built in.

In Premiere: Not a Premiere plugin. You upload media to Descript, cut there, and export a timeline back to Premiere; timeline export is included on the Creator and Business plans, not Free or Hobbyist.

Footage: Media is uploaded to Descript; each plan caps the media hours you can upload or record per month.

• Free: $0, 60 minutes of media a month.
• Hobbyist: $16 or $24 per person/month (the lower figure is annual billing), 10 hours of media.
• Creator: $24 or $35, 30 hours, includes timeline export to Premiere.
• Business: $50 or $65, 40 hours, includes timeline export.
• Enterprise: custom.

Strong where: The most complete transcript-first editor: record, transcribe in 25 languages, clean audio, cut, caption, publish, in one app. Great when the whole project can live in Descript, such as a podcast or a talking-head video for social.

Limits: A round trip. Every change of mind means another export back to Premiere, and Premiere export is a paid-tier feature. Media hours are metered, and your footage lives on their servers for the duration. It edits by deletion and rearrangement; there is no "describe the story" mode that proposes a cut from a brief.

Best for: Creators who want one app for recording, editing and publishing, and who do not need to finish in Premiere.

Verbatim vs Descript, in detail.

Jumper

"Local AI video search for professional editors": describe a shot, a line of dialogue or a person and Jumper finds it, without uploading.

In Premiere: Plugins for Premiere, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Avid Media Composer.

Footage: Analysed locally; Jumper advertises search "without uploading."

• Per-seat lifetime license (one year of updates) on the base plan; Jumper PRO monthly, yearly or lifetime; Enterprise from five seats. Figures are shown on their pricing page.

Strong where: Visual search is the point: find the drone shot of the bridge, not just the sentence about it.

Limits: A search tool, not a story builder. It finds the moment; assembling the cut is still yours to do.

Best for: Editors drowning in B-roll who need to find shots by description.

Quickture

"A new paradigm for finding your story and getting to a roughcut, fast," built for Avid and Premiere workflows.

In Premiere: An integrated panel in Avid Media Composer and an extension for Premiere.

Footage: "Your video never leaves your system." Works with local, on-premises and cloud storage.

• Not shown on the site; sign-up leads to a pricing page.

Strong where: Avid-first, which almost nothing else in this list is.

Limits: Pricing is not public, so expect a sales conversation.

Best for: Broadcast and Avid houses evaluating AI rough cuts.

Which one, by job

• Interview-driven pieces, cut in Premiere, footage stays home: Verbatim.
• A complete first assembly with B-roll and multicam, any NLE: Eddie AI.
• Podcasts and talking heads that never need to touch Premiere: Descript.
• Single-speaker creator content, remove filler and weak takes: Chat Video Pro.
• Finding shots by description in a B-roll mountain: Jumper.
• Avid house evaluating AI rough cuts: Quickture.
• No budget and no hurry: Premiere's own Text-Based Editing. Transcribe, search, Insert.

Questions

+Does Premiere have a built-in AI rough cut?

Partly. Premiere transcribes clips and lets you select a passage of text and Insert it into the sequence, and you can edit the sequence transcript to remove material. It is manual: nothing proposes a cut or weaves interviews together. The plugins on this page add that layer on top of Premiere's transcripts.

+Which tools keep footage on my machine?

Verbatim, Jumper and Quickture say so explicitly, and Premiere's own transcription runs locally. Descript uploads media by design. Eddie AI and Chat Video Pro do not state it on the pages we checked.

+What happened to Transcriptive?

Digital Anarchy discontinued Transcriptive Rough Cutter, PowerSearch and the web app on 1 May 2026. Existing panels keep working for transcripts you already have but can no longer make new ones.