Automatic beat detection

[defaultqoq9m8640sv9]

Premiere pro needs a feature to automatically place markers on beats of audio tracks such as 1bar, 1/2 beat, 1/4 beat etc. Elements had this yet now it's gone and is an industry standard technique. 

[Zeitfixierer]

Dear community,

Adobe Premiere Elements sports a cool Beat Detection feature, unfortunately the Pro version doesn’t.
Why is that? And why can't paying CC subscribers use the Elements version for free? Or do I miss something?

Kind regards,
Tim

[Mathias Moehl]

You are right, it is not available in Premiere Pro.

But I developed this 3rd party plugin Beat Edit which adds beat detection to Premiere Pro.

It is compatible with CC2014 and newer. It detect the beats and also (optionally) additional rhythmically relevant points. Then you can generate sequence or clip markers at these beats, which is helpful both as guides for manual editing and for automatic edits with "Automate to Sequence".

Here is a tutorial showing the general functionality of BeatEdit

You also find more tutorials about it here

Tutorials | mamoworld

[shooternz]

Very clever and very impressive work on this extension to PPro. 

FWIW: Just a comment about "editing to beats" and my opinion -  for readers/editors...

Its not always best to use the beat as the edit point ( cut point).  Placing the action on the beat instead of the "cut" is sometimes more dynamic and sometimes the better choice for flow.

Beat cuts can be very mechanical looking.

This software would  easily aid that  edit decision.  ie  its the cut or the action on the marker.

[Mathias Moehl]

This is a very interesting point! When you want to accuratly place a specific action on a beat, you can also add a clip marker at the action (manually) and then when you move the clip, the action marker snaps to your beat markers.

[vperquia]

Any news from Adobe about adding this essential feature in Adobe Premiere Pro CC ?

Can't believe it's not there yet...

[Ann Bens]

Feature Request/Bug Report Form 

[Mathias Moehl]

In general, the existence of third party solutions (BeatEdit for Premiere Pro) lowers the pressure for the core team to add such features fast. They can focus more on other urgent features, since if it is essential for you, you can purchase it already now.

But of course, the more feature requests they get, the more likely it becomes that they will eventually add this feature to the core program.

[Melankaya]

Requesting the incorporation of beat markers to premiere pro please! 😞

Is there a petition with a gazillion signatures for this somewhere?

[Ann Bens]

Post your request here:

Premiere Pro: Hot (13069 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

[maximus22651251x2gn]

Beat sync, like synchronize music with videos to the beat of the music for example, like CapCut and TikTok.

[tatemaris]

An option where you could toggle the timeline to a beat-based timeline > Promt to enter or detect a BPM of an audio track > choose timing (1/8 notes as a default).

Could be great for music video editing or really any standard project that cuts to a beat.

[R Neil Haugen]

There is a plug-in for that, check at aescripts.com ... just as a practical note.

[tatemaris]

I'll check that out. Thank you!

[Thai Mac]

Been searching for this too. I'm blown away that in 2024 Adobe doesn't have the capability or technological knowledge to do this. Even Capcut has this feature. It's mindblowing. 

[R Neil Haugen]

The "pro" apps have tended to assume that one either controls such things manually or buys plugins for specialized things like this. Like BeatEdit from aescripts.com.

As someone who works for/with/teachers pro colorists, with spendy rigs and monitors, working in Resolve or Baselight ... all the folks I work with have the full Boris and probably a couple other "suites" of things available. 

Editors seem to think paying a one-timw $25 fee for a plugin outrageous. I find this all rather humorous.

And btw ... I've got the full Red Giant Universe, personally ... 

[Thai Mac]

Auto beats detection is a basic fundamental audio function that should be native. It shouldn't be dependant on a 3rd party add-on - regardless of costs.

[R Neil Haugen]

It's a basic function to you, but one that most editors will never use.  I would have no issue with adding as an effect, understand, I'm all for adding new stuff.  I'm explaining why it's not already there.

I think a lot of color tools should "already be there" in Premiere, that sadly, most editors would never use. But at least, I'm realistic about the percentage of people who would actually use the stuff I'd love to have. Not ... very many, truthfully.

[MyerPj]

I'm with Neil. I don't think it's a fundamental issue. I have ears that tell me where the beats are.

[Thai Mac]

I would say 80% of trending social media reels and videos are made where scene transitions are dependant on the audio beat. We must not be talking about the same thing as it's extremely perplexing that anyone is even debating this.

[Nitesh37860941zjgp]

I try free beat marker used in premier pro

[MyerPj]

Oh, my.... 😐

[jeremyl64970990]

You honestly said that because you don't want to loose the passive income. It wont be nothing to their team, maybe you should try selling the plugin to them and negotate some sort of royalties you can receive, but i am pretty sure they will do it as much as people are asking for it and they are loosing customers to capcut. 

[defaultqoq9m8640sv9]

AI has entered the chat... 

[efficient_person1243]

I'm reaching this thread today as my workflow has largely shifted to social media clients; automatic beat detection for these short cut-downs would be incredibly useful. There's a reason this thread has OVER 2,500 eyes on it. People need this feature. This is a basic audio fundamental that plugins are taking over when I already spend over $500 a year on Premiere and Adobe apps. This is embarrasing for this "professional" software.

[RafaelOliveira02]

Wow such a basic feature and adobe doesn't have it? Now im seriously considering going back to capcut