a specialized Generative Extend feature for Premiere Pro and After Effects designed for interview footage

I would like to request a specialized Generative Extend feature for Premiere Pro and After Effects designed for interview footage, talking-head clips, documentary editing, corporate video, and other dialogue-based production.

A common editing problem occurs when an interview clip contains strong usable content, but the subject restarts a sentence, opens their mouth, blinks, leans back, changes expression, or moves awkwardly near the edit point. Even if the content is good, the last few frames can make it difficult to create a clean transition, dissolve, J-cut, L-cut, title overlay, or cutaway return.

Current generative extension tools are promising, but for interview editing the goal is often not to create new motion. The goal is to create a short, usable editorial handle that preserves continuity while keeping the subject natural, stable, and believable.

I would like Premiere Pro and After Effects to include a Pose-Locked Generative Interview Hold mode.

Suggested workflow:

1. The editor selects the end of an interview clip and chooses a command such as Generate Interview Hold, Generate Editorial Handle, or Pose-Locked Extend.

2. The software analyzes the preceding 3–5 seconds of the clip and presents a plain-language visual inference summary, such as:

   “Subject is seated and facing camera. Subject is speaking near the edit point. Mouth opens during the final frames. Subject begins leaning back slightly. Eye line remains mostly stable. Background is static.”

3. The editor can then confirm or adjust the desired result using a chat-style panel, modal window, or preset controls.

Useful options could include:

• Generate 1, 2, or 3 seconds of extension
• Use current frame as reference pose
• Use earlier stable frame as reference pose
• Keep subject still
• Preserve eye line
• Keep mouth closed or relaxed
• Minimize blinking
• Prevent leaning backward or forward
• Prevent new gestures
• Prevent head turns
• Preserve facial expression
• Preserve background continuity
• Generate multiple variations
• Make suitable for dissolve / transition / title overlay

The most important part is that the tool should prioritize editorial usability over inventing new performance. If the AI causes the person to lean back, open their mouth, blink strangely, or change expression, the extension may technically work but will not be usable in a real edit.

Editors should also be able to save guardrail presets for common scenarios.

Example preset: Interview Transition Hold

• No invented speech
• No new mouth shapes
• No major posture change
• No new expressive performance
• No head turns
• No eye-line changes
• Minimal blinking
• Preserve lighting and background
• Allow only subtle natural micro-motion
• Generate multiple versions for review

This would be useful for documentary editors, corporate video editors, interview editors, wedding editors, educators, broadcasters, and anyone working with spoken-word footage.

The goal is not to alter the meaning of an interview or generate new dialogue. The goal is to create clean, ethical, editor-directed visual handles that allow smoother transitions and better timing when the original footage ends on an awkward facial movement, repeated sentence, blink, or posture change.

This feature would be especially powerful if available in:

• Premiere Pro as a timeline-based editing tool
• After Effects as a more advanced shot-repair tool with masks, tracking, reference-frame controls, and deeper compositing options

This would save editors from using awkward freeze frames, unnecessary B-roll coverups, jump cuts, or time-consuming manual workarounds.