Premiere Pro · Cutting and the timeline
How to split a video into scenes in Premiere Pro
Short answer
Put the video in a sequence, right-click it and choose Scene Edit Detection. Tick Apply a cut at each detected cut point and click Analyze. Premiere cuts the clip at every shot change.
In Premiere Pro
01
Put the video in a sequence
Drag the flattened video into a sequence.
02
Open Scene Edit Detection
Right-click the clip in the Timeline and choose Scene Edit Detection.
03
Pick what to make
Choose Apply a cut at each detected cut point, Create a clip marker at each detected cut point, or Generate subclips in bin.
04
Analyze
Click Analyze. Premiere finds the shot changes and makes the cuts or markers.
05
Check the cuts
Dissolves and fast motion can fool it. Scrub through and fix any missed or extra cuts.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Eddie logs footage by shot, so you can find shots by what is in them.
Eddie writes a shot log of your b-roll and an outline of each interview. Ask for shots by content, such as "the wide shots of the factory floor", and use them in the edit. The log exports to Premiere as XML bins.
From the help center
Questions
- Can Premiere detect cuts in an MP4?
- Yes. Scene Edit Detection works on any video clip in a sequence.
- Does it work on dissolves?
- Not reliably. It finds hard cuts best.