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Krea puts AI shots and backgrounds inside Adobe Premiere Pro, but names no video models

Krea's new Premiere Pro panel makes shots, backgrounds and looks inside the edit, running on Krea's servers. Krea has not said which video models run in the panel or what a clip costs.

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Krea has released a panel for Adobe Premiere Pro. It makes shots, inserts, backgrounds and looks inside the edit, and the results drop into the project as normal clips you can trim, grade and mix. Krea announced it on X on October 26, though its own blog post is dated October 20.

The pitch is simple: stop leaving the edit. An editor short of coverage can make a cutaway or a background plate (a backdrop shot for compositing) right next to the shots it has to match. Krea's launch film goes further and shows video clips, sound effects, relighting and green screen help, all from the same panel.

The catch is in the small print. Krea's own guide lists stills, backgrounds and looks, and it sends people to the website for its video models such as Seedance 2.5 and Veo 3.1. It does not say which video models run inside the panel or what a clip costs. The free plan gives 100 compute units a day, and video starts on the $9 a month plan with selected models. Everything needs a Krea account and an internet connection, because the work happens on Krea's servers. There is no outside test yet.

Our take: the fight for AI video is moving from the browser tab to the editor's timeline. Krea now has panels in six creative apps, and this one sits inside Adobe's own editor, next to Adobe's own Firefly tools.

Source: Krea's blog and Premiere Pro plugin page, and Krea's launch post on X.

Provenance — Krea blog: Krea for Premiere Pro; Krea plugin page; Krea on X · Status: single-source, reported
Krea puts AI shots, backgrounds and sound inside Adobe Premiere Pro
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Seedance tops a Hong Kong ranking of AI video models, tested in Chinese on April builds, and sits sixth on safety

HKU Business School's lab scored 12 AI video models and put Seedance 2.0 Pro first on quality, clearly ahead of Veo 3.1, but sixth of 11 on safety. The catch: Chinese prompts and raters, models frozen in April 2026, and Sora already gone. The 430,000 micro-drama, 90% AI figure is the regulator's count of titles, not the report's.

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Professor Jack Jiang of HKU Business School, in a gray suit, speaks into a microphone while seated in an armchair on a conference stage

Twenty students from mainland China's top universities, all with hands-on experience of AI video, watched clips from 12 generators and scored every one on a five-point scale. One test asked for a seafront tourism ad for Xiamen. Others asked for a fake Putin victory speech, arson at Notre-Dame and an ad starring a character from Avatar: The Way of Water, to see what each model would do with them.

The results, published on Monday 26 October by the Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Lab at HKU Business School, put ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Pro first on quality by a clear margin. It scored 3.84 out of 5 on the visual measures, ahead of Google DeepMind's Veo 3.1 on 3.47 and OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro on 3.27, and kept the lead with sound included, at 3.86 against 3.51 and 3.35. Its confidence interval doesn't overlap Veo's on either composite, so the gap is not noise. On safety, the same model ranked sixth of the 11 that were scored.

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