Best Premiere Pro Tools to Speed Up your work

We made a list of great plugins for Adobe Premiere, both native and external. With these tools, you can quickly sync audio with video, auto reframe footage, detect beats in your music, get access to millions stock footage websites at once and much more!

So, what are the most convenient tools to use in Premiere Pro?   

BeatEdit

BeatEdit detects the beats in your music and generates markers for them in your Premiere Pro timeline. With this tool, you can create automatic edits in sync with the music, or let BeatEdit assist your manual editing process.

What does this plugin do? BeatEdit detects the beats of your music and places them as markers in the Premiere Pro timeline.

Use the beat information to generate fully automatic edits in sync with the music. If you need more control, the beat markers can also be used as guides in your manual editing process. What's more, the automatic edits can be easily tweaked in the timeline.

You can fully control the beats, and subdivide them to create faster or slower patterns. To create more variation, BeatEdit can also choose rhythmically relevant peaks of the music to add extra markers.

Features:
- detect beats or rhythmically relevant peaks for variation
- sequence and clip markers
- compatible with the Automate to Sequence function in Premiere Pro
- batch manipulation of markers(create, move, delete)

Price: $99.99

Compatibility: Premiere Pro CC 2015.3 and above

Auto-Reframe (native)

Powered by Adobe Sensei AI, Autoreframe is a handy timesaver for editors. You’ll find this feature in the Media Browser if you right-click on a sequence and find the option: Autoreframe Sequence.

This tool will help you to automate your work, creating ratio variations.  The auto reframe function converts a sequence into a square(1:1), vertical(9:16 or 4:5), or a custom aspect ratio.

It’s a great way of quickly converting sequences to different formats for use on social media. If AI wasn’t accurate in its reframing, keyframes can be manually moved around and customized to add a more realistic cut. 

Features:
- Autoreframe into square, vertical or custom aspect ratio
- Full keyframes customization
- Bin of sub clips from each detected cut point
- Clip marker at each detected cut point

Scene Edit Detection (native)

Adobe released a feature called Scene Edit Detection, which is another time saving tool. It definitely came from DaVinci Resolve, and still nice to have it in Premiere!Scene edit detection takes a final video file and analyzes it for cuts using AI. After analyzing the video, Premiere will add markers to allow you to re-edit specific pieces of the video.

Additionally, Premiere Pro will automatically add cuts to the audio part of the footage as well(you can separate audio from the video before analyzing). Finding the original edit points in a video is necessary before you start editing the video. Using scene detection helps you to automatically get the cut points without having to go through the footage manually.

Premiere Pro analyzes your footage, automatically detects changes in scenes, and adds cuts at the appropriate places.

Features:
- Video scene detection
- Audio scene detection
- Full keyframes customization
- Clip marker at each detected cut point

Viewer+Assets

EasyEdit Viewer+Assets - quick and simple access to thousands of video templates. Here you can preview and import ready-made compositions to your project in just one click.

Apart from that, you can find and download free media resources from all over the internet, with seamless integration to After Effects and Premiere Pro. Here you’ll be able to add a pack of templates, preview and import any template and easily customize it.

Animation, editing or content creation - everything becomes much easier.If you click to the Assets tab, you’ll be able to choose the media file you need to add in your project from any available stock website - video, photo or GIF. Here you can choose the resolution, format or source of the file, easily preview suggested media files and import them to the project or your computer.

Features:
- Unlimited access to stock footage around the internet
- Quick preview & download controllers
- Video, photo, GIF files support
- Easy search by keyword

Price: Free

Compatibility: After Effects and Premiere Pro CC 2014 and above

Find more about Assets in this guide.

Cinemagrade

Convenient tool for color correction and color grading in Premiere Pro - easy to use and apply. Color Grade is available for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut.

Simple for beginners and powerful for experts the Cinema Grade plugin enables content creators to spend less time with clunky controls and more time getting vibrant looking video. The plug in includes controls and 90 film emulations based on Hollywood films. Also, you’ll find easy lut preview.

Get perfect exposure every time without complex video scopes by seeing different brightness levels represented as different colors. To fix just click and drag directly in the viewer to adjust brightness levels.

Features:
- False color mode
- Shot matching
- Luts previewer and transfer
- 90 luts

Price: $69

Compatibility: Premiere Pro CC 2021 (15.4) and above  

Drag Zoom Pro

Great plugin to zoom into your footage by drawing a box around some area of your image. Also supports automatic keyframing.

With Drag Zoom Pro you can create smooth transitions with motion blur to zoom into specific parts of your footage without the need to manually customize position and scale in Premiere Pro.With this extension, you can just click and drag to draw a rectangle around a part of the frame and that's it - keyframes and proper values will be set automatically. This is especially useful when working with screen recordings or interviews.

The extension allows for a lot of customisability and includes tools to achieve a consistent look across projects. It also supports creating transitions with motion blur on footage with higher resolution than the timeline(which normally causes problems in Premiere Pro).

Features
- Smooth transitions
- Motion blur
- Full keyframes customization

Price: $49.90

Compatibility: Premiere Pro CC 2019 and above

Smart Collect

This plugin allows you to automatically collect and relink all the assets used in the selected timeline and relative nested timelines.

Smart Collect makes a copy of the files used in a timeline, organizing it in folder structure that mirrors files created in Premiere Pro. It’s more convenient than the Premiere Pro project manager tool, as you don’t have to track and rename the sequences all the time.

Using Smart Collect, the user needs only to open the desired sequence, click on the copy button and Smart Collect will do the job.

Features:
- Copy on disk of all the assets used in the selected timeline
- Copy of the project and relink of the clips
- Real-time mirroring of the files in Premiere Pro

Price: $18.90

Compatibility: Premiere Pro CC 2014 and above

Primatte Keyer

Primatte Keyer automatically selects the perfect key for your green or blue screen. Available for Premiere Pro and After Effects, this is a decent tool to speed up your work.

Here you can easily select your background and foreground, and separate them out for an accurate key. Additionally, cleanup tools let you finish the job if additional customization is required.

With AI algorithms, Primate Keyer can do this automatically. The user interface provides an easy way of selecting your background and foreground, and separating them out in order to key out a green/blue screen. Red Giant added new GPU optimization, which makes the previews and renders up to 3x faster than in previous versions.

Features:
- Instantly removes green screen
- GPU optimized
- Fast / Automatic chroma keying
- Background and foreground selection
- Cleanup tools

Price: €89.79/month for all assets

Compatibility: Premiere Pro CC 2018 and above

TimeBolt

Timebolt creates automatic jump cuts in both audio and video. It can remove silence, change padding, apply a filter below a particular sound level, and more.

Apart from that, you can cut or keep any word or scene previewing video and audio up to 4x speed. Nice plugin, that allows you to quickly create cuts and spend less time on editing.

The tool allows you to render video right to your desktop or export to Premiere, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Camtasia.

Features:
- Automatic jump cuts
- Silence remover
- Easy export

Price: $17/month

Compatibility: Premiere Pro CC 2018 and above

Pluraleyes

A handy plugin that saves time and eases out audio/video synchronization.Pluraleyes makes post-production muck quicker by synchronizing audio and multi-camera video automatically and speeds your sync in seconds rather than days.

Pluraleyes has a user-friendly interface, easily imports, syncs and edits the clips in a matter of minutes. Quickly sync your audio from multiple footages by creating multi-camera sequence.

Now such feature might be available in Premiere Pro update, which includes AI automation, but Pluraleyes would be a great addition inside of the Red Giant’s monthly pack, along with other tools, such as Trapcode, Primatte Keyer, Magic Bullet and more.

Features
- Audio/video syncing
- Multicam timeline syncing

Price: €89.79/month for all assets

Compatibility: Premiere Pro CC 2018 and above

Finally

Hope you’ll find some of these tools essential for your work! All of them will do a great job in automating your editing task, whether you work with one clip or a huge project. Some of these tools are free, some paid, but all of them could be a great addition to your workflow.For more tips like this, read our Educational Blog - here we collect all tips and tricks for Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, overall design solutions and basics.