Pilot - The Command Bar for Premiere Pro

Pilot is a plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro that replaces the Effects panel with a search bar. Press one keyboard shortcut, type the name of the effect, transition, preset, adjustment layer, title, or graphic you want, press enter, and it’s applied to the clips you have selected. No scrolling through folders, no dragging and dropping, no leaving the timeline. Free to download for Mac and Windows. Pilot Pro is a one-time $97 upgrade. What Pilot does Search any Premiere Pro effect by name. Every video effect, audio effect, and transition Adobe ships with Premiere is indexed and searchable the moment you install. Apply to every selected clip at once. Select 15 clips, search once, press enter. The effect goes on all of them. Set parameter values by typing. Type “scale 50”, “rot 90” or “op 50” to change scale, rotation, or opacity without opening Effect Controls. Find your presets by name. Presets built to work with Pilot show up in the same search as everything else, instead of five folders deep in the Effects panel. Create adjustment layers, titles and graphics straight into your timeline, without File › New or dragging from the Project panel. (Pro) Put anything on its own keybind. In the Settings tab, assign any effect, preset, adjustment layer or graphic to a keyboard shortcut. Press the key and it’s applied — no search bar, no typing. Pilot won’t let you take a shortcut Premiere already uses. (Pro) Favorites. The effects you use most sit at the top of the search before you type a letter. (Pro) Who it’s for Short-form video editors, YouTube editors, freelance and agency editors, and creators who edit their own content in Premiere Pro — anyone applying the same handful of effects dozens or hundreds of times a week and losing time to the Effects panel. How it works Pilot runs alongside Premiere Pro and opens over whatever you’re working on with a global shortcut — ⌥Space on Mac, Alt+Space on Windows, changeable to anything you like. It only talks to Premiere at the moment you apply something, so it doesn’t render, transcode, or touch your media, and it won’t slow your project down. Setup is: download, run the installer, restart Premiere Pro. Two minutes. Free vs Pilot Pro Free — the search bar, every built-in Premiere effect and transition, apply to multiple clips, typed parameter values, a free sample preset from every Sparvol pack, Mac and Windows, updates included. Pro, $97 one-time — everything in Free, plus custom keybinds, one-key adjustment layers, one-key titles and graphics, Favorites, priority support, and free updates forever. One payment, no subscription. Presets: the honest version Every effect and transition that comes with Premiere Pro works in Pilot right away. Presets are different — they have to be authored in a specific way for Pilot to read them, and most presets, including ones you may already own, aren’t built that way. Every Sparvol pack is, and a free sample preset from each pack is included with the free download so you can see how it works. Compatibility Adobe Premiere Pro, recent versions macOS and Windows, with a native launcher for each Default shortcut ⌥Space (Mac) / Alt+Space (Windows), fully rebindable Instant download, updates included Common questions Is Pilot really free? Yes. The search bar is free with no card required and no nag screens. Pro is an optional one-time upgrade. Does it work on Windows? Yes, Mac and Windows both. Is Pro a subscription? No. One payment, yours for good, updates included. Will it slow Premiere Pro down? No. It sits outside the timeline and only communicates with Premiere when you apply something. Will it find presets I already own? Probably not. See “Presets: the honest version” above. Made by an editor Pilot is built by Torsten Roscoe of Sparvol, who edits short-form video every day and got tired of reaching into the Effects panel a few hundred times a week. Sparvol also makes preset packs for Premiere Pro — Hooks, CaptionsFX, Apple Editing Style, and Text Animations — all built to show up in Pilot by name.