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🎉 New in Media Encoder: Media Intelligence Gets You to the Timeline Faster
If you work with a lot of footage, you know the drill: you import everything into Premiere… and then you wait. And if you use the Search panel, you know how powerful it is for finding exactly what you need. But Premiere has to analyze your media before you can search for anything, including dialogue, sounds, objects, and scenes. On large projects or shared storage, that wait adds up fast.
What’s new
Media Encoder 26.0 can now perform AI‑powered analysis on your video and audio files before they ever reach Premiere. This includes:
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Visual content detection (objects, scenes, visual elements)
- Audio characteristics (sound events, music, ambient sounds, dog barks)
- Speech‑to‑text transcription for searchable dialogue
This allows editors to focus immediately on creative decisions instead of waiting for analysis to complete.
How it works
When Media Encoder analyzes your media, it creates a small .prmi sidecar file next to your original footage. When you import that media into Premiere, the Search panel can use this data immediately. Eliminating re-analysis saves valuable time. You can start searching and editing right away.
Try it out
There are three ways to run Media Intelligence in Media Encoder, depending on how you like to work:
- Analyze files directly in the Queue
For quick, one-off batches, you can analyze files directly in the Queue by switching the Format dropdown to Analysis, enabling the options you want, and running the queue.
- Use an Analysis Preset
In the Preset Browser, create a New Analysis Preset, enable Analyze for visual or audio search, and save it. Use this preset whenever you want consistent analysis settings.
- Create an Analysis Watch Folder
Add an Analysis Folder in the Watch Folder panel and point it at a folder of media. Media Encoder will automatically generate .prmi sidecar files for anything in that folder, including any new files added later, while leaving your media in place. It also scans all subfolders.
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