Adobe adds Firefly video tools & unlimited AI use

Adobe has rolled out a series of updates to its Firefly generative AI platform, adding new video editing tools, additional partner models and a browser-based video editor, alongside a promotion that removes generation limits for some subscribers.

The company is introducing a Prompt to Edit feature for video, camera motion controls, a new video upscaling option from Topaz Astra, and access to the FLUX.2 image model from Black Forest Labs. It is also moving Firefly video editor into public beta as a lightweight, web-based assembly tool for AI-generated and traditional footage.

Adobe is pitching Firefly as a single environment for working with multiple generative models at different stages of a creative workflow. The platform sits alongside tools such as Photoshop and Premiere in its wider Creative Cloud portfolio.

Prompt-based video edits

The new Prompt to Edit feature lets users apply natural language instructions to existing AI-generated clips. Creators generate footage inside Firefly, then send it to Runway's Aleph model, which interprets text prompts and makes targeted changes without regenerating the full video.

Adobe highlighted example instructions such as "Remove the person on the left side of the frame," "Replace the background with a clean studio backdrop," and "Change the sky to overcast and lower the contrast." The model applies those instructions to the chosen clip inside Firefly.

The approach is designed for cases where a generation is close to the desired result and only requires selective refinements. It reduces the need to re-roll whole scenes in search of incremental improvements.

Firefly also adds camera motion controls within the Firefly Video Model. Users upload a start frame image and a separate reference video that contains the desired camera movement. The system then recreates similar motion in a generated sequence, anchored on the supplied frame.

Adobe said the combination of text-based editing and camera-motion references is aimed at preserving strong takes and cutting down on trial-and-error generation cycles for short-form and social content.

Upscaling with Topaz Astra

Adobe is expanding its use of third-party AI models inside Firefly through new integrations. Topaz Astra, from Topaz Labs, is now available in Firefly Boards for video resolution upscaling.

The model can increase output to 1080p or 4K. Users can apply it to low-resolution clips or older footage that lacks definition.

Adobe positions the integration as a way to prepare back-catalogue content for current distribution formats. The company said that while upscaling runs in Boards, creators can continue other tasks or queue additional videos for processing.

On the image side, Firefly now supports FLUX.2, the latest model from Black Forest Labs. FLUX.2 generates and edits images at up to 1 megapixel and handles flexible aspect ratios. It focuses on photorealistic detail and advanced text rendering and can work with up to four reference images.

FLUX.2 is accessible inside Firefly's Text to Image module, Prompt to Edit and Firefly Boards. It is also available in Photoshop's Generative Fill and is scheduled for Adobe Express from January.

Browser-based video editor

Alongside the new models, Adobe is opening Firefly video editor to a broader audience in public beta. The tool runs in the browser and functions as a multi-track editor for assembling AI-generated clips, audio and user-uploaded footage.

Users can work in a traditional timeline view for frame-accurate cuts, pacing and layering. They can also edit by text in workflows such as talking-head or interview videos, where the transcript drives the reordering or trimming of segments.

The editor supports exports in multiple aspect ratios. Adobe is positioning it for vertical social formats as well as widescreen outputs that can sit beside content created in desktop tools.

In a blog outlining the direction for Firefly, Adobe described the editor as the place where separate AI generations, live footage and soundtracks come together into finished pieces.

Unlimited generations offer

Adobe is coupling the product updates with a temporary removal of generation limits across Firefly for some paying customers. Holders of Firefly Pro, Firefly Premium, 7,000-credit and 50,000-credit plans receive unlimited image and video generations in the Firefly app for a limited period.

The promotion covers Firefly's own commercially safe image and video models and a set of partner models that now includes FLUX.2, Google's Nano Banana and OpenAI's GPT Image, alongside the new Topaz Astra upscaler.

Adobe said that many customers work with several AI systems in parallel and prefer not to move between separate tools for model selection, generation and editing. It is framing Firefly as a central environment for those tasks across still and moving images.

"As model innovation accelerates across the industry, the combination of industry-leading models plus Adobe's best-in-class creative tools is where things become truly transformative-turning AI from 'generation' into a practical, end-to-end creative workflow," said Adobe.

The company plans further integrations of external models and deeper links between Firefly, Creative Cloud and Express as it builds out its generative AI ecosystem.