Downbeat
Tapping out beat markers by hand is slow, and Premiere has no way to find them for you. Downbeat finds every beat, downbeat and bar in a song, even audio inside a video file, marks them on your sequence, and snaps your cuts to the rhythm.
Analyze. Mark. Cut.
Choose the music, drop the markers you want on your sequence, and snap your edits to the beat. Every change is a single undo.
It hears the bar, not just the beat.
Most beat tools only find a steady pulse. Downbeat finds the tempo, every beat, and beat 1 of every bar, then groups the bars into phrases, so your cuts can land on the moments that actually feel musical.
Music inside video too
Downbeat renders the audio through Media Encoder, so any music Premiere can play works, even a song inside a video file.
Beat 1 found for you
Tempo, meter, bars and 8-bar phrases are found, with a confidence score so you know how sure it is.
Fine tune by a frame
Shift every marker a frame earlier or later, or tap to set beat 1 yourself.
Markers right on your sequence
Choose every beat, downbeats, bars or phrases, and Downbeat places them on the sequence between your In and Out points, not just on the source clip.
Color-coded, named and in range
Each kind of marker gets its own color and name, so phrases, bars and beats are easy to tell apart on the timeline.
- Phrases, downbeats, beats and off beats
- Named Bar 1, Bar 2 and Phrase 1, Phrase 2
- One undo removes every marker Downbeat placed
Snap your edits to the rhythm
Select clips and Downbeat moves their edit points to the nearest beat or bar, or lays one clip every few bars. It all happens as one undo, so trying a different rhythm is easy.
Every cut on time.
Montages, trailers, brand films and recaps live and die by the music. Downbeat finds the structure of the song so your edit can follow it, and you stay in control of every cut.
Tempo and meter
Steady tempos, odd meters and phrases are found and shown with a confidence score.
On the sequence
Markers land on your sequence between In and Out, where you are actually cutting.
Snap or space
Snap edit points to the beat, place a clip every few bars, or follow the phrases.
Works with any music
WAV, MP3, AAC and audio inside video files all work, because Media Encoder does the reading.
More than a pulse
Downbeats, bars and phrases mean cuts can land on the moments that feel right.
Always undoable
Markers and snapped edits each come off with a single undo.
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Downbeat is in development now. Get an email the day it launches.