Adobe Premiere Pro NLE Automation AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Premiere Pro is a track-based NLE: Project → Bins → Sequences → TrackItems, with Lumetri, captions, graphics, and audio mixers. Modern automation prefers UXP (require('premierepro')) — async DOM, project.lockedAccess + executeTransaction for mutations (enforced harder since 26.3). Legacy ExtendScript (JSX) remains common for studio scripts. Delivery usually goes through Adobe Media Encoder (AME) presets (.epr). Interchange: FCPXML, AAF, EDL, CME.

Pin the studio’s major version (e.g. 25.x / 26.x): marker APIs landed ~25.6; EncoderManager helpers and stricter action locks landed in 26.3.