Prelude
Adobe Prelude is a professional video ingest and logging tool designed for film and television production workflows. It allows editors and producers to capture, organize, and add metadata to raw footage before sending it to Adobe Premiere Pro for editing. The app supports direct import from cameras, batch ingest, colour-coded tagging, and creation of proxy media for faster editing on slower systems. Prelude is aimed at post-production teams who need to manage large volumes of footage efficiently and maintain consistent metadata standards across projects.
Suggested Replacements
1 suggestionAdobe Prelude was discontinued by Adobe in 2022 and replaced by newer ingest and logging features integrated directly into Adobe Premiere Pro. Rather than use an aging Intel-only version under Rosetta, users should migrate to the latest native Apple Silicon build of Premiere Pro, which now includes the essential ingest, colour-coding, and proxy-generation workflows that Prelude provided. Premiere Pro's Media Browser and source monitoring tools offer the same metadata-driven organisation. If you are still using Prelude, contact Adobe Support for guidance on transitioning your projects and workflows to Premiere Pro, or consider DaVinci Resolve (free or Studio), which is natively optimized for Apple Silicon and includes professional colour grading, editing, and media management in a single application.
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