Last week, Deepa Subramaniam, Adobe’s Vice President of Product Marketing for Creative Cloud, was excited to reveal Adobe’s Firefly generative AI model at Adobe MAX London. Michael Burns questions her about the fears and hopes this new influence will have on post production.
“Firefly debuted last March. It’s barely over a year old, yet it’s been incredible to see the reception to the foundational models – we have an image model, we have a vector model, we have a design model, and we’re working on a video model, which we’ll bring to market this year,” Subramaniam told IBC365 on the eve of the MAX event in Battersea. Subramaniam heads up a team driving Adobe’s digital imaging, photography, video, and design strategies forward: “The excitement and enthusiasm and adoption from the community [towards Firefly] have been awesome, and all of that development has happened through open public betas.”
The Firefly model integrates AI image generation into Adobe’s creative applications, shown at MAX running in Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign, and Adobe Express. But what will be of most interest to IBC365 readers is a sneak preview of a new video model that promises AI-powered post production capabilities in Premiere Pro...
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