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August 31, 2023
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Smooth Skin Feature in Premiere Pro (Tracked beauty filters like tiktok, but designed for pros)

  • August 31, 2023
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Tiktok has had beauty filters/smooth skin presets for years now that work really great. There have also been tons of third party plugins that have been very popular for smoothing skin like Cosmo. Davinci Resolve also has skin retouch features, yet Premiere Pro, the most expensive software has NOTHING. If you want to smooth skin and remove blemishes, you have to do it 100% manually every time, or buy a third party plugin. Why?
Can't you license the tech behind the best tiktok beauty filters and give professionals these options? They are pretty amazing. They can literally make you look completely different, so a professional version where it doesn't make you look completely different, but rather it just focuses on smoothing out your skin to remove blemishes/ acne/ imperfections/ wrinkles etc should be VERY easy.

A reminder that tiktoks beauty filters track perfectly with your skin in real time. There's no reason why Premiere can't have this feature as well.

Just like Premiere doesn't have any option for tapping into camera gyroscope data for better stabilizing, even though cameras have had gyro data for almost 4 years now. These are the types of things that should just be included in Premiere Pro as soon as possible, not 4 years later. It's a no-brainer. Help your paying customers want to keep paying by giving them the best, since you are the most expensive option. Please!

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Participant
April 8, 2025

If anyone have low budget graphic, they can give also advance level video in Capcut, and don't need to pay more for plugin in Capcut, also da Vinci is best compared to premiere pro, we also leave premier pro two month ago, easily everything done in Capcut with tecnic. Also for YouTuber best Capcut. need to much improvement in premiere pro, plugin also will be taken more load and it will slow premier pro and also pc. While Capcut is fast no need to any external plug in 🤣🤣🤣

Participating Frequently
April 7, 2025

For non-pro users, capcut beauty is MUCH easier to use -- so why can't premiere pro figure out how to make that an integrated, easy to use feature???

 

I have tried premiere pro plugins and couldn't figure them out.

 

I have taken several courses and still PP had glitches that just didn't work (not just for beauty -- I finally gave up on basic edits as they didn't work on the program as shown in the courses actually on their site).

 

We know that PP has many other better features, which is why we still try to learn & use it. But the beauty features are critical -- and should be integrated, easy-to-use, and not such a complete PIA.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
April 7, 2025

Sorry but that's just an odd sounding post.

 

90% of Premiere users have left to go to ... Capcut? Really?

 

Capcut simply is so freaking limited overall compared to Premiere or Resolve, both of which I use. Resolve's editing stuff is still somewhat limited compared to Premiere, but it's way above Capcut.

 

Would I like more beauty tools in Premiere? Of course. But if you use it for pay, there's several excellent add-ons out there that do a great job of it. For minimal cost in any relative term.

 

I use some personally.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Participating Frequently
April 7, 2025
For non-pro users, capcut beauty is MUCH easier to use -- so why can't
premiere pro figure out how to make that an integrated, easy to use
feature???

I have tried premiere pro plugins and couldn't figure them out.

I have taken several courses and still PP had glitches that just didn't
work.

We know that PP has many other better features, which is why we still try
to learn & use it. But the beauty features are critical -- and should be
integrated, easy-to-use, and not such a complete PIA.
Participant
April 7, 2025

90% user also has been leaved premiere pro because in Capcut no need extra plugin and no need higher graphic card 

Community Expert
July 17, 2024

Video editing is sometimes using the right tool for the job and every feature added costs money. Premiere has other strengths like easy to use  multi cam that most other apps can't touch.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
July 17, 2024

I work for/with/teach pro colorists, mostly based in Resolve. I spend more time in Resolve than Pr because of that ... and am currently running the R19  public beta, working on tutorials for pro colorists using Resolve's newer features and also using Tangent's new "Warp engine" mapping software in Resolve with Tangent panels.

 

Beauty work is a frequent request these days for colorists, one that some love to do, and that many others ... grumble grumble grumble ... about, though never loud enough the client hears the grumbles. Ha.

 

I know rather a lot of pro colorists, both Resolve and Baselight based. I don't know any that do much beauty work, that actually use Resolve's built-in tool. A major continuous discussion among colorists is which outside tool they are using for any "X" work in Resolve and what results they get from it. Especially beauty.

 

But then, all the Resolve colorists I know have at least one extensive, expensive suite of plugins installed. Typically, at least a full Boris, probably also the full Maxon/Red Giant, and some tools from others.

 

So they spend far more per year for plugins, typically twice, than Pr users do for a full CC subscription. And editors complain about buying a single plug-in here and there. I find that humorous ... 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Legend
July 17, 2024

There are 3rd party plugins to do this from within Premiere.  

This is the one I use

https://www.sheffieldsoftworks.com/beauty/mua/index.html

They've been very helpful when I've had any issues or questions.   Not cheap but worth it.  

Participant
July 17, 2024

how can i get

 

Participant
April 10, 2024

unbelievable. i was sure this was built in. absolute no brainer. seems like i am wasting my time and money with this so called "pro" software. what a shame.

Participating Frequently
December 1, 2023

So until that happens, I'm headed right now over to Filmora, which has these features, and will have to pay there, in addition to paying for Premiere Pro.  And that means that most likely my brand new annual Premiere Pro membership will be worthless.  Not happy.