Prelude End of life

Last updated on Mar 27, 2026

Adobe Prelude is no longer be available on Adobe.com. Existing Prelude users may continue to use the application. However, there is no technical support available for this app. Consider transitioning to Premiere for pre-production ingest and logging workflows.

In 2012, we launched Prelude as a dedicated video pre-production tool to prepare media for editorial in Premiere. However, due to the changing needs of video professionals and content creators, we have discontinued Prelude. We have taken learnings from Prelude and shifted our development focus towards streamlining pre-production workflows in Premiere.

Prelude was designed as a pre-production tool for organizing camera media before editing in Premiere. Many users will be able to consolidate their pre-production workflow in Premiere which supports camera media ingest and marker workflows for basic logging. Advanced transcoding is available in Adobe Media Encoder.

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Prelude End of life

Adobe Prelude is no longer be available on Adobe.com. Existing Prelude users may continue to use the application. However, there is no technical support available for this app. Consider transitioning to Premiere for pre-production ingest and logging workflows.

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