Prelude
Prelude is a video ingest and logging tool from Adobe, part of the Creative Cloud suite, designed for media professionals and video editors. It streamlines the process of importing footage from cameras and devices, organizing clips, adding metadata and logging notes, applying colour grades, and creating rough proxies for faster editing in Premiere Pro. Prelude sits between acquisition and the main editing timeline, helping productions manage large quantities of raw footage before they reach the full nonlinear editor.
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1 suggestionAdobe Prelude was discontinued in 2019, superseded by Premiere Pro's own ingest and logging features. The Intel-only build will stop working entirely when Apple removes Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (late 2027). If you are still using Prelude, you should plan to migrate your workflow to Premiere Pro immediately — modern versions of Premiere Pro include all the ingest, logging, and metadata features Prelude once provided, and Premiere Pro ships as a native Apple Silicon build as part of Adobe Creative Cloud on current macOS. Contact Adobe Support or consult your media management workflow to identify any specific Prelude features you rely on; in most cases, Premiere Pro's Media Browser and metadata panels will cover your needs directly. If you have archived projects or footage you need to extract from Prelude, do this before upgrading macOS past Sonoma or Sequoia, since Prelude will not launch at all on macOS 28 or later.
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