DISKO for Premiere: your whole library, docked inside Premiere Pro

DISKO already knows everything about a shoot: who is on camera, what they said, which camera shot it, where it was shot, and what is actually in the frame. But an editor in Premiere Pro has had to leave the timeline to use any of it — find the clip in DISKO, export an XML, let Premiere ingest it, find it again in the Project panel. DISKO for Premiere closes that round trip. It is a panel that docks in Premiere and is a window onto your library, nothing more and nothing less.

Search the way you would ask a person

Type a sentence. "Sarah laughing on the drone", "the bit where he says the deadline moved", "wide shots from the A7S at the harbour". The panel runs the same search as DISKO desktop — filenames, AI tags and descriptions, faces, transcripts, cameras, places — so what you would find in DISKO you find here, with the same results in the same order. When a transcript matches, the result carries the timecode of the line, so a double-click opens the clip at the spoken moment rather than at the head.

Hover a thumbnail to scrub through the clip. Press Space for the clip's details: the metadata, the tags, the people, and the transcript with every hit highlighted.

Getting clips into the cut

Double-click loads a clip into the Source monitor without importing anything, so you can mark in and out points as usual. Then the keys Premiere already trained into you do the rest: Enter adds the selection to the project, comma inserts at the playhead, full stop overwrites. Select twenty clips and press Enter, and they all land at once.

Imports land in bins that mirror DISKO — DISKO, then the client, then the project, then the source bin you would see in DISKO's Sources chips — instead of piling into one flat folder. Only real levels are created, so you never get an empty "No client" bin.

One honest limitation: you cannot drag a clip from the panel straight onto the timeline. Adobe's newer UXP plugin platform does not allow it — even Frame.io's panel imports rather than drags — and Adobe's own guidance is select, then import, because that is what lets a panel choose the bin and carry in and out points. Select-and-Enter turned out to be faster anyway.

The bigger buttons

• Sound Effects — a new tab that indexes the sound-effects packs you already own and drops the right moment of a whoosh or a hit onto a free track at the playhead in one click. It has its own post: "Your own sound effects library, one click from the Premiere timeline".
• Synced Timeline — if DISKO has synced a multicam shoot, one click builds the synced sequence in Premiere, every camera and recorder placed where DISKO's engine put it.
• Story — pick a project and describe the cut you want in a sentence ("the best soundbites about the launch, two minutes"); DISKO reads the transcripts with your own AI key and hands back a rough cut you can import as a sequence.
• DISKO Butler — the three free cleanups (Stayin' Aligned, Coat Check, After Party) are built into the panel. They only need Premiere, so they work even while DISKO desktop is closed.

What it deliberately is not

The panel is a browser and a conduit. It does not import footage, offload cards, tag, organize, manage faces or show a map — all of that lives in DISKO, where it belongs, and the panel simply reads the result. It holds no library logic of its own: every search goes to DISKO desktop over a local connection on your own Mac, so the results, the license and the privacy are exactly DISKO's. Nothing is uploaded and nothing leaves the machine.

It is a beta. It is fast and it is careful, and if it ever does something you did not expect, the details are one click away for support@disko.media.

Keys

• Enter — add the selection to the project, in DISKO-mirrored bins
• Comma / full stop — insert or overwrite at the playhead
• Double-click — load into the Source monitor
• Space — clip details: metadata, tags, transcript
• Minus / equals — thumbnail size
• Cmd-A, Cmd-F, Escape — select all, search, close

Install it

The panel comes with DISKO desktop, so there is nothing separate to buy: DISKO has a 7-day free trial with no card, then it is $99 once (or included with a DISKO Cloud Pro subscription). It needs Premiere Pro 25.6 or later on a Mac; the built-in Butler tools need 26.3 or later.

• Install DISKO desktop (1.2.5 or later) and open it.
• In DISKO, open Settings, then Integrations, and click Install the panel.
• Restart Premiere Pro and choose Window, UXP Plugins, DISKO.
• The first time the panel connects, DISKO shows an Allow button. Click it once.

Already running DISKO? The panel is waiting in Settings, under Integrations.