Dear Topaz Vdeo Ai Product Management
I first came on board with Topaz Video Ai with all your promises of a plug in for Premiere Pro.
Fact - you have done nothing about it - it was all Marketing Hype
Please explain yourselves …and by the way stop messing about with the UI and trying to invent Topaz as a Video editor.
It is not a Video editor it is for processing Video - that’s what a lot of us came on board to use it for.
Wait - there is no Premiere Pro plugin?
Then why did I buy this? I thought for sure it SAID there was a PP plugin. This means I have to first render out my video from PP and pass it through AGAIN another pass (which will degrade things further). I guess I can still return it and get my money back.
There is not currently a premiere plugin for the app, there is an After Effects and a DaVinci Resolve option though. The team is still working on developing an option for Premiere.
So having put my trust (and many other customers) in Topaz products - I wanted to remind you that early last year you claimed that the Devs were busy working on a Plug in for Premiere Pro for Topaz Video Ai at the time.
Now you have migrated all your focus to Topaz Video Studio etc and your ‘revenue generating Cloud rendering model’ what commitment can you put on the table to ever release this Premiere Pro plug in?.
I know there is an After Effects Plug in …..but that is not what was promised.
Please update some interested parties on where Topaz now stands with this commitment to develop and release a Premiere Pro plug in.
Many of us signed up to Topaz products in your early years and are known as ‘early Founders’ as defined by your CEO Eric Yang in the email received by many of us first week September 2025.
Now your Company bean counters are demanding more profit from your products don’t make the mistake of ignoring your founder members support in the early years and the promises you made during that time ‘to get users on board.’
Without us you would have no company.
I’ve seen this happen with new companies myself where there are some great developments early on and promises made only to be swept under the carpet by the financial wizz kids coming in who couldn’t care about ‘founders users’ or development promises.
Don’t ignore your community and the support you have had since day one.
If you are never going to release such a development for Premiere Pro then tell us here and now.
I can then adjust my subscription priorities accordingly.
Please raise this at your next Product Management meeting(s) where development priorities are discussed.
Hopefully you get the picture.
The plug-in workflows were addressed and are continuing to be worked on for various options and apps. The devs are trying to take the issues and bugs that have been seen in the Resolve and AE plug-ins to better design future options so that they work cleanly with other apps. The models are already heavy within our own UI and can cause issues when having longer video files to process and handle. This is exponentially more difficult when looked at with NLE editing apps that can have hundreds of clips, visual effects and other filters stacked on. They will release a plug-in when they have it ready. I do not have any confirmed timeline on this and the last I heard was that it is still in the works.
Apologies not replied until now as have been busy on other stuff.
Understand resource priority BUT you should never have talked about a Premiere Plug-In 3 years ago. You had not even prepared a Premiere Pro Plug IN ready for even Beta stage.
To be honest, when editing with Premiere I would only use the occasional clip for processing that might be slightly out of focus or needed some form of rescue. I would not look at Processing an entire timeline !.
Please can you keep us updated and if it is not ever going to happen then just say so.
No apology needed, I know how life and work can get in the way of things.
The devs still have the Premiere Pro plug-in in development but I do not have any update on when it would be ready for beta testing or release. I can only pass along what I have been told or updated on from our meetings and this is one that is still in the works.
