Prelude
Adobe Prelude is a media ingestion and logging tool designed for professional video editors and post-production teams. It streamlines the process of importing, organizing and reviewing footage before it reaches the main editing timeline in Premiere Pro. Prelude allows users to add metadata, create transcripts, add notes and rough cuts while footage is being ingested, and then seamlessly transfer those prepared clips and their associated data into Premiere Pro for final editing. It is typically used in broadcast and film post-production workflows where efficiency and asset management are critical.
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1 suggestionAdobe Prelude has been discontinued as a standalone product — Adobe announced the end of Prelude development and began consolidating its features into Premiere Pro. The Intel build of Prelude CC 2022 will continue to run under Rosetta 2 today, but Apple is removing Rosetta entirely in macOS 28 (September 2028), at which point this app will stop launching on M-series Macs. If you rely on Prelude's media logging and ingestion workflow, the primary path forward is to transition to Premiere Pro's built-in media-bin and logging features, which now provide similar asset organization and metadata management. Premiere Pro ships as a native Universal Binary on current versions and is actively maintained by Adobe, so it will continue to work after September 2028. You can also explore third-party media management solutions like Frameio or Colorfront Ascent, which offer native Apple Silicon versions and integrate with Premiere Pro for a similar pre-editing workflow. Contact Adobe Support if you have questions about migrating your Prelude projects to Premiere Pro.
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