Scout for Premiere Pro

Drive Adobe Premiere Pro from an AI agent: transcript search, markers, cuts, exports, 277 tools.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

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Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Client Config & Setup

Remote HTTP

Choose your client or environment

Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scout-for-premiere-pro": {
      "url": "https://trevorohare.gumroad.com/l/scout4premiere"
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

Scout for Premiere Pro: MCP server

Scout is a commercial extension for Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows, Premiere 26.2 or newer). It cuts multi-camera podcasts from the audio and connects AI agents to your timeline over the Model Context Protocol.

This repository hosts the MCP bridge as a downloadable bundle and is the public issue tracker for Scout. The extension's source code is not public.

Get Scout ($59, one time): https://trevorohare.gumroad.com/l/scout4premiere
Product page and demo video: https://www.trevorohare.com/dev
Bug reports and feature requests: open an issue here, using one of the templates
Community and support: https://discord.gg/qYkacEyfUQ

What the server exposes

The bridge talks to the Scout panel running inside Premiere. It exposes two tool families on one MCP surface:

Panel tools (11). These read Premiere's own transcript and act on the active sequence.

Tool	What it does
`get_active_sequence`	Name, frame rate, duration, start timecode, per-track summary
`get_transcript`	Full stitched transcript with sequence-time segments, optional time window
`find_words`	Word-accurate search: exact sequence times and timecodes for each match
`list_markers`	Markers with name, comment, start, duration, type, color; optional prefix filter
`place_markers`	Add point or duration markers, with color
`remove_markers`	Remove markers by prefix or by exact start time
`apply_cleanup`	Lift or Extract every `Scout/Cleanup:` range, after backing up the sequence
`create_chapter_markers`	Convert duration markers into chapter-type point markers
`export_markers_csv`	Write a CSV of markers matching a prefix
`razor_at`	Cut tracks at exact sequence times; reversible with undo
`enable_all_clips`	Re-enable every clip on every track in one undo step

ExtendScript tools (266). Effects, transitions, exports, project and bin management, track targeting, metadata, and more. Adapted from the MIT-licensed adobe-premiere-pro-mcp tool layer; see THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md. The full reference is in TOOLS.md.

Install

Scout's Windows installer registers the bridge with Claude Code automatically when the claude CLI is present. For other clients:

Claude Desktop. Download scout-premiere-mcp-<version>.mcpb from Releases and open it. Claude Desktop installs it as an extension.

Claude Code, Cursor, and other stdio clients. Point the client at the installed executable:

Terminal

claude mcp add scout --scope user -- "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Scout\scout-premiere-mcp.exe"

Then open the Scout panel in Premiere and turn on Enable MCP Server. The panel shows a live connection indicator and a log of every tool call.

Running the bundle directly

server/index.cjs is the same single-file build that ships inside the .mcpb (sha256 52fbc2dbe35ebbee1135db726d3c2fb78819027c574e84078cebab8603362a41). Any MCP client can launch it with Node 18 or newer:

Code

node server/index.cjs

The Dockerfile builds an image that runs it over stdio. Without Premiere and the Scout panel on the same machine the server still starts and lists its tools; calls that need the panel return a "panel not connected" error.

Requirements

Windows 10 or 11
Adobe Premiere Pro 26.2 or newer with the Scout extension installed and licensed
Scout's MCP server enabled in the panel
Transcripts: run Premiere's own Transcribe on the sequence first. get_transcript and find_words read that transcript; no external transcription service is involved.

Privacy Policy

The bridge runs entirely on your machine. It relays tool calls between your MCP client and the Scout panel over a localhost WebSocket (port 18803 by default) and makes no network requests of its own. Transcript text and sequence data go only to the MCP client you connected. Scout's in-panel AI Analysis feature is separate and uses whichever AI provider you configure in the panel. Full policy: https://www.trevorohare.com/privacy-policy

License

The bundle is proprietary software, licensed to Scout customers under the terms at https://www.trevorohare.com/policies. Third-party components are listed in THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md.

Read the full README →View source on GitHub →

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Frequently Asked Questions about Scout for Premiere Pro

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "scout-for-premiere-pro": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "Scout for Premiere Pro"] } }

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