Adobe's Project Live Set edits AI video as it streams

Adobe previewed Project Live Set at its MAX 2026 Sneaks panel on November 11, a research project that streams video as it is generated.

The panel, hosted by Terry Crews, showed 10 research projects across video, audio, imaging and design. Adobe described the set on its blog and published a page for each project on Adobe Labs. Project Live Set is an early research preview, and Adobe is not sharing details about the underlying models.

In the demo Adobe showed, a video of a black cat is transformed with four prompts at once. Variety reported the four prompts: "add a chef's hat on the cat", "swap the cat with a shiba inu dog", "swap the cat with an alligator wearing a miami shirt" and "swap the cat with a puppy wearing a tuxedo". The four results preview side by side in the editing window.

Adobe's page describes a continuous experience in which a creator can generate, edit, restyle, add reference subjects and redirect the camera while the video plays, pausing at any frame to adjust. The team frames Project Live Set as a "sketching tool for moving images", a quick draft a creator could later hand to a more powerful model.

Gautham Mysore, a senior principal scientist who leads Adobe's video and audio research group, said the work explores bringing video generation and editing into one continuous experience. "Project Live Set will allow creators and filmmakers to generate and edit video at the speed of thought," Mysore said. "Today, a large part of the video creation process is waiting. This breaks creative flow. We believe Project Live Set will fix this."

Three other video projects sit alongside it. Project Scene Sweep applies one edit across multiple shots, working out which people, objects and locations appear in each shot so a change carries across cuts and camera angles. Project Screen Test builds a character's look, voice and personality through conversation, then generates short screen tests. Project On Cue controls when an action happens, using a timing signal drawn by hand or pulled from music.

The rest of the set spans audio and imaging. Project Sound Bender pulls a described sound out of a finished mix and reshapes it on an interactive canvas. The imaging projects include Project Sight Span, which turns a flat image into a navigable environment; Project Deep Brush, which reads an image's shape, color and lighting; and Project Hands On, which puts controls on the canvas to move parts of a scene by hand. Project Rinse Repeat and Project Link Up round out the 10.

Sneaks is a research showcase, not a product launch. Adobe has moved projects from the stage into shipping tools before: Generate Soundscape in Adobe Premiere and Relight in Photoshop both began as Sneaks previews. Adobe has not announced model details, a release date or a price for Project Live Set.

Two of this year's Sneaks are open to try now in the new Adobe Labs Playground, Project Deep Brush and Project Hands On, alongside a preview of Project Custom Filters for Photoshop. The other eight, Project Live Set included, are previews only.

Project Live Set has no release date. The Adobe Labs page offers to notify creators if the Sneak becomes available as an experiment, and the company is taking feedback at labs@adobe.com.