We recently put Adobe’s new AI Assistant in the Premiere Pro 26.5 Beta to the test with Beauty Box to see how well it works with a third-party plugin. The good news? The AI Assistant doesn’t just recognize the name Beauty Box—it understands what the plugin is designed to do.
If you’ve never used Beauty Box before, you can apply the plugin to a clip and ask the AI Assistant to help me Beauty Box Basics. With the right prompts, it will summarize the features, explain workflows, and break down features right inside of Premiere. Learn more here!
If you ask the chatbot to improve skin, it can identify Beauty Box as the appropriate tool, apply it, suggest settings, and even automate repetitive tasks across your timeline. The full video above walks through everything we tested, but if you want a quick list of prompts to try then keep reading!
What the AI Can (and Can’t) Do
The AI Assistant is still in beta, so it won’t be able to perform every action inside Beauty Box. During our testing, for example, it couldn’t click the Analyze Frame button or interact with every plugin control directly.
What impressed us, though, is that it understands what Beauty Box is designed to do. Instead of simply recognizing the plugin’s name, it can connect requests like “improve the skin on this clip” with Beauty Box, recommend appropriate settings based on your editing goals, and automate repetitive tasks across your timeline.
As with any AI tool, always review the results. It’s a great assistant, but you’re still the editor making the creative decisions.
First Prompts to Try
The AI is pretty good at identifying multiple people, body parts like hands, and different skin tones. It will also choose a decent smoothing amount based on your clips. So you can use basic prompts To apply Beauty Box to without having to worry about specific settings, try asking the AI Assistant:
- “I want to improve the skin on this clip.”
- “Apply Beauty Box to this clip.”
- “Apply Beauty Box to all clips on the timeline.”
- “Apply Beauty Box to all clips of white person”
“Apply Beauty Box to all clips of hands on this timeline.”
One thing to notice: the skin tones won’t be properly smoothed until you analyze the light and dark areas. This is where we got bummed out! Premiere’s AI Assist can identify light and dark, but cannot click on the Analyze Frame button, which is a crucial step to get the skin smoothing right! The good thing is: this is not a deal breaker. Here are your options:
- You can, of course, manually click on the “Analyze Frame” button. Or…
- You can tell the AI to “Set light and dark color based on the skin tones”
- If you want to apply and the plugin and analyze skin tones at the same time, you can prompt it to “Set light and dark color based on the skin tones”
Everything will be now properly set – just make sure you check what the bot said they did! Double checking the settings on the plugin to see if they actually changed never hurts.
Adjust Beauty Box Settings
Rather than adjusting sliders individually, tell the AI the look you’re after with more specific prompts:
- “Smooth out the skin while keeping a realistic look.”
- “Set the smoothing amount to 40.”
- “Adjust the smoothing amount on all clips to 35.”
- “Reduce the skin smoothing.”
- “Increase the skin smoothing.”
- “Make the skin look more natural.”
One of the nice things about the AI Assistant is that it explains why it recommends certain settings, making it a useful learning tool if you’re still getting familiar with Beauty Box.
Combine Multiple Tasks
The AI really starts to shine when you combine several repetitive tasks into one prompt.
For example:
- “Apply Beauty Box to white person on the timeline and set the smoothing amount to 40.”
- “Apply Beauty Box to every interview clip.”
- “Apply Beauty Box to all clips of Sarah.”
- “Enable Beauty Box on all clips.”
Instead of applying the effect first and adjusting settings later, the AI can often handle everything in one step.
A Few Things We Learned
A couple of observations from our testing:
- The AI cannot click the Analyze Frame button inside Beauty Box.
- It can recognize skin tones well enough to suggest Light Color and Dark Color values, although you’ll want to verify them yourself.
- It does a surprisingly good job of understanding editing goals like “keep the skin looking natural” instead of requiring exact parameter values.
- Bulk actions are where it saves the most time, especially when applying Beauty Box across multiple clips or adjusting settings throughout a timeline.
As Adobe continues developing the AI Assistant, we’ll be interested to see how much deeper the integration with third-party plugins becomes.
Share Your Favorite Prompts
We’re sure we’ve only scratched the surface. If you discover prompts that make Beauty Box even faster or uncover new AI workflows, let us know—we’d love to feature them in a future video.
If you haven’t tried Beauty Box yet, you can download the free demo from Digital Anarchy and experiment with these prompts on your own projects.
