Adobe to introduce dedicated editing workspace for YouTube Shorts within Premiere on iOS

The hub is built around a curated toolkit designed to help creators capitalise on fast-moving trends across vlogs, travel content, behind-the-scenes clips, and rapid-fire storytelling. With YouTube locked in fierce competition with TikTok and Instagram Reels, the partnership offers Shorts makers a way to customise and publish their videos without relying on rival editing apps such as CapCut or Meta’s editing tools.
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A key part of the rollout is its close integration with YouTube. According to Meagan Keane, Adobe’s director of product marketing for digital video and audio, creators can spot a template while scrolling through their Shorts feed and open it instantly in Premiere mobile for personalisation.
Adobe says the workspace has been engineered specifically for Shorts, giving users a more direct path than general-purpose editors typically provide.
Inside the new space, creators will find templates crafted by well-known YouTubers, complete with preset transitions, effects, text treatments, and structural layouts. Each design can be adapted with custom footage, colour edits, audio layers, or individual branding. Users can also create their own templates for reuse or share them with the wider community.
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Getting started requires only a free Premiere mobile account and a YouTube profile. After downloading Premiere from the App Store, a ‘Create for YouTube’ option leads straight into the Shorts workspace, where footage can be pulled from the iPhone camera roll, cloud services, or Adobe Creative Cloud.
From there, creators have access to Premiere’s full mobile editing suite, including tools for trimming clips, stacking video and audio, adding captions, and refining colour, all within a simplified interface.
The collaboration strengthens Adobe’s role within YouTube’s expanding Shorts ecosystem while giving creators a streamlined, mobile-first workflow that cuts out app switching. For YouTube, it tightens the loop between creation and publishing; for creators, it offers a faster, more integrated way to keep pace with the relentless churn of short-form content.