Adobe just rolled out Premiere 26, (They've removed "Pro" from the name for some reason?) and this one feels like more than incremental polish. A few highlights that stood out to me as someone who’s been using Premiere since version 3: One-click object masking & tracking: Hover, click, isolate. AI-driven masks that actually track moving subjects, without frame-by-frame pain or immediate round-trips to After Effects. Massively faster shape masks: Ellipse, rectangle, and pen masks rebuilt to track up to 20× faster, with live previews and much better refinement controls. Frame.io built directly into Premiere (beta): Review notes, comments, versions, and media ingest without leaving the timeline. Less context switching, tighter collaboration. Built-in Adobe Stock access: Browse, license, and drop clips straight into your edit. Not flashy, but very practical. Firefly Boards import: Early ideation and visual development flowing more directly into the edit. Now, a fair question some people might ask: What does this have to do with AI? Isn’t this just a Premiere update? Here’s my take: If you’re making films with AI, you still need to edit them. There are tools out there calling themselves “AI editors,” but that term is often misleading. Editing isn’t just cutting silences or removing flubs from a talking-head video. Film editors create stories. They shape pacing, emotion, clarity, and meaning. That requires both technical skill and creative judgment, whether the footage came from a camera or a prompt. Generating AI video clips is only the first step. Someone still has to assemble those pieces with intention and care to entertain, educate, or move an audience. That’s why improvements to real editing tools still matter... A lot. One last thought, as someone who’s also seen Premiere grow over decades: As it’s evolved into the Swiss Army Knife of NLEs, it’s also gotten heavier. Not crashy for me, but slower. That’s the tradeoff of being able to do almost everything. Compared to something like Avid, which excels at a few mission-critical things for long-form work, it’s a different philosophy.

Three deep dives dropped this week that Founding Members got first: 🔧 Building a Local 4K AI Video Pipeline — Full NVIDIA + ComfyUI technical breakdown. No cloud costs, no waiting in queues. Your GPU, your footage, your workflow. 🎭 Real-Time AI Avatars with Runway Characters — How world models meet interactive media. Step-by-step build from zero to working avatar. 🎬 Daniel Kwan's AI Roadmap from SXSW — The "Everything Everywhere All at Once" director spent 3 years going deep on AI. His framework for filmmakers is the most practical thing I've seen from someone actually making films. We're past the halfway mark to 50 Founding Members. Once we hit 50, the price goes up and the door closes at this rate. So join TODAY! $29/month, locked for life → https://www.skool.com/aiography/classroom

I just posted something I've been working on for a while, a video that explains exactly what AIography is, where it's going, and why I built it. The short version: I've spent 40 years editing at Warner Brothers, Sony, Disney, HBO, and Netflix. I was there when Avid replaced film. I consulted on Final Cut Pro before it had a name. Every time a transformative technology hit, I watched the same thing happen: everyone focused on the shiny new thing and forgot about the craft. It's happening again with AI. And almost nobody is talking about story. That's what this community is about. 🎬 Watch the video below. If what I'm saying resonates, I'm now offering a Founding Member tier for $29/month, or pay annually and get two months free. Locked in for life. Full access to everything I'm building: courses, live workshops, Lumarka early access, and direct access to me. This window won't stay open forever. Head to the Classroom and hit the Founding Member upgrade. Then come back here and introduce yourself. I want to know who's in the room.

Yesterday we had our first AMA with five of our founding members and honestly… I didn't want it to end. We had editors from LA, New York, Minnesota, and Ireland—different backgrounds, different levels of AI experience, and different fears. But the same underlying question: How do I stay relevant in a craft I've spent my whole career building? That question is exactly why this community exists. Josh kept hearing, "You've got to learn AI," but nobody's telling him which tools are worth his time and which are just another $1,000/month subscription trap. Elisheba is deep in the trenches trying to fix a transcript workflow that's costing her weeks of cleanup time. Ben has been on the same show for 10 years and is watching people get laid off who've been there twice as long. And Elaine? She's already got her handmade gnomes riding trains and talking on camera using Kling and ElevenLabs. First time out of the gate. That's the range we've got in this room. And it's awesome. We're doing this again next week. The Founding Members tier is where we dig in together—real problems, real solutions. $29/month, or go annual and get two months free. If you've been on the fence, stop waiting. The people who showed up to this call didn't have it all figured out. They just showed up. Come join us this Tuesday (3/10) for our first Coffee Hour & AMA. This one is open to ALL members, free and founding. Look forward to seeing you there. — Larry

A digital “Tillyverse” for AI actors is coming. The WGA West canceled its awards ceremony over a staff strike. Luma dropped Ray 3.14 and put $1M on the table at Cannes. And fresh data from 120,000+ AI-generated videos shows just how mainstream this has become. What’s fascinating isn’t just the tech getting better (it is). It’s that acceleration and resistance are happening at the same time. On one side: synthetic talent ecosystems, production-ready video engines, vertical video dominance, global adoption. On the other: labor unrest, anti-AI film festivals backed by Oscar winners, and guild tensions playing out in public. We’re not watching a trend. We’re watching the industry reorganize itself. I break all of this down in today’s AIography—including what actually matters for filmmakers trying to build careers right now (not just argue on Twitter). If you’re not subscribed yet, it’s free and takes about 7 minutes to read. 👉 Click HERE to subscribe. And as always—I'm curious: Are we heading toward two parallel Hollywoods? Or does this all eventually merge? Let’s discuss.