Adobe Firefly Adds Prompt-Based Video Editing

0shares

Adobe just took a big step toward making AI video editing actually usable in real workflows.

The company is rolling out a new prompt-based video editor inside Adobe Firefly, along with additional third-party image and video models, including Black Forest Labs’ FLUX.2 and Topaz Labs’ Astra.

Until now, Firefly’s video tools were largely generation-only. If one part of a clip didn’t work, you had to regenerate the entire video from scratch. The new editor changes that.

You can now make precise, text-based edits to existing video clips, using prompts to tweak specific elements like colors, lighting, subjects, and even camera movement. Think instructions such as “Change the sky to overcast,” or “Zoom in slightly on the main subject,” applied directly to the clip instead of starting over.

Firefly also gets a timeline-based editing view, making it easier to adjust frames, audio, and other details in a way that feels closer to traditional video editors.

Under the hood, Adobe is expanding Firefly’s model lineup. Through Runway’s Aleph model, users can issue targeted visual instructions, while Adobe’s own Firefly Video Model now lets you upload a reference frame or a sample camera movement and ask Firefly to recreate that motion in your video.

On the quality side, Topaz Astra is being added for AI upscaling, allowing creators to enhance videos up to 1080p or 4K. And on the image side, FLUX.2 is coming to Firefly across platforms immediately, with availability for Adobe Express users starting in January.
Adobe is also introducing collaborative boards, hinting at a more team-oriented future for Firefly as it competes with fast-moving AI image and video platforms.

To drive adoption, Adobe is offering a temporary perk: subscribers to Firefly Pro, Firefly Premium, and the 7,000- and 50,000-credit plans will get unlimited generations from all image models and the Adobe Firefly Video Model inside Firefly until January 15.

This update caps off a busy year for Adobe’s AI push. In 2025 alone, Firefly expanded from standalone image generation into a full cross-platform app with mobile support, subscriptions, and a growing ecosystem of third-party models.