Automatic beat detection

It's pretty hard to work with Neil. I've taken at least a half-dozen LinkedIn courses on AE, and it's still daunting, but mostly cause I don't have many projects to do in it, though I wish I did.

I really like AE, it's satifying to use, it just does so much.

Thanks Warren ... a lot of us Pr users could really use some more time in That Other App ... it isn't that hard to work in, even if intimidating at first sight ...

I don't think this tread ever mentioned that we can use Replace with After Effects Composition in the Premiere Pro Timeline to then choose Animation > Keyframe Assistant > Convert to Audio Keyframes in the After Effects Timeline.  Any property of a Layer in After Effects can then be linked to the resulting keyframes for the Left Channel, the Right Channel or Both Channels.  Everything related to the beats needs to be done on the After Effects side, but it shows up in Premiere Pro via the linked Composition.  

And so almost a year later, there are only 9 upvotes (including mine) for this widely requested feature.

I guess it must not be as popular as some think.

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.