Automatic beat detection

Really? Wow ... I used to teach Elements about 2005-2009, and it was so useful to get beginners started in because so many things that are manual in Premiere were automated, or nearly so, in Elements.

It was a great and useful tool for people to just make better family videos.

Elements 2025 has been completely overhauled. Its a stripped version of Premiere Pro so hence no beat detection.

What is very strange is that Adobe Premeire Elements has automatic beat detection in it and when I upgraded to Adobe Premeire Pro 25 it does not. So Adobe has this functionality in the base version and not in the Pro version by design. This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I have to do more work now than before.

I'm always happy to upvote feature requests like this, no problem there!

I'm also always somewhat bemused at the attitude of so many editor types.

Why? Well, I work for/with/teach pro colorists. Based in Resolve and Baselight, mostly ... which both have extensive effects "natively" provided in the apps.

And a lot of my video post actual friends happen to be compositors and graphic artists ... you know, the AfterEffects/Nuke & etc. crowd. THOSE apps really have a ton of powerful, 'native' effects

And yet ... All of the people I know in both groups  ... colorists and Vfx/graphics types ... have extensive plugins, that they pay a TON of cash for every year.

But they use apps that already have nearly all of those spendy effects they par for in the app!

They mostly all have the full Boris and Continuum, many have everything Maxon/RedGiant puts out, and there are several more ... and they probably have multiple expensive stock/template/effects service subscriptions also.

And, they all just consisder that having all that is just part of having a fully stocked professional tool-set.

They find editors a weird group, in all ... and I do wonder about the vast difference in outlook by editors, against basically every other segment of video post processing.

And yes, I've got the full RedGiant, and a couple stock/graphics/audio services even for my small shop. Because they are useful tools.

But of course, everyone's mileage always varies ...

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So the request made here is in, and has 7 upvotes to move it along. In the meantime, there are some good and available now options that could help you now.

It's a simply practical suggestion. There are an incredible array of users needs for effects and processes. No matter which NLE is in use, there are always plug-ins needed for some things. Varying by specific NLE of course.

Yea, a built in effect would be great. No question. But I'm not holding my breath, with everything else being requested.

Why is that the correct answer to a continued feature request and added feature amongst professional competitors of Premiere? Why is a paid plugin the required correction instead of an additional feature to a program that enjoys over $500 of your money every year?

Forum posts dating back to 2017 and older have been asking for beat detection, showcasing a demand for this feature. There are multiple plugins available online showcasing a demand for this feature.

As PPro is utilized for a huge majority of the userbase on social media and shortform video content, a basic and fundamental feature of modern software is automatic beat detection. This is used in DaVinci Resolve, CapCut mobile, CapCut desktop, (it used to be in Adobe Audition and then removed) and I'm sure others. This needs to be implemented in Adobe Premiere Pro. It is 2025.

I personally have clients and teams working to create social media content that relies on beat-oriented cuts for efficiency; these are not cinematic masterpieces with unique arbitrary creative decisions, these are swipeable content for a social media client. For the sake of God and my team, this should have been implemented ages ago. Please implement.

When you say it like that, "that pay my rent and provide me a means to live", I'm wondering why you haven't invested in a relatively inexpensive plugin to do that.

Automation Blocks does that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jlhtsEaR0

And they have a tool specialized to do that: https://aescripts.com/beatedit-for-premiere-pro/

Check them out at least, I'm mean, if your living depends on it...

It's Feb 26 2025 and another day where automatic beat detection is needed in my current client workflow, based on client needs, for a litany of social media related deliverables that pay my rent and provide me a means to live and we still don't have automatic beat detection enabled as an Adobe internal function. Cool. CapCut was literally banned from the United States and it has beat detection but a paid software that garners over $500/yr annually from each user does not.