Adobe has announced powerful upgrades to its Firefly Video Model, aimed at making content creation faster, more immersive, and more customizable. With new AI integrations, enhanced motion fidelity, and greater creative control over visuals and audio, Firefly now caters to a wider audience of video editors, marketers, and educators.
“The platform also added new generative AI partner models within Generate Video on Firefly, giving users the flexibility to choose the best model for their creative needs across image, video, and sound.”
Firefly's video model now boasts enhanced motion fidelity, delivering smoother transitions, lifelike behavior, and realistic animations. This update enables creators to craft videos with more cinematic motion and believable physics — essential for everything from animated shorts to digital ads.
“The Video Model’s newly improved motion fidelity means video generations will now move more naturally, with smoother transitions and lifelike accuracy.”
Firefly shines when generating complex environments like urban landscapes, nature scenes, atmospheric effects (rain, snow, fog), and 2D or 3D animations. Whether you're building a futuristic skyline or a serene forest, Firefly adapts to your creative intent.
Adobe has added multiple AI partner models to improve flexibility and quality in video generation:
Runway Gen-4 Video
Google Veo3 with Audio
Topaz Labs’ Image & Video Upscalers
Moonvalley’s Marey
Luma AI’s Ray 2
Pika 2.2
“From storyboarding to fully animated video outputs, Firefly web and mobile apps let users choose the AI model that best fits each part of their workflows, while keeping their style consistent and creative control intact.”
Adobe Firefly now offers format-specific options and advanced video controls that eliminate the need for external editing software.
Whether you’re publishing for mobile, desktop, or social, easily select between vertical, square, or horizontal aspect ratios.
Upload a reference clip, describe your concept, and let Firefly recreate it with visual consistency and structural accuracy.
Instantly apply a visual theme — like claymation, anime, or 2D illustration — to any video with just one click.
Upload first and last frames, select crop style, and Firefly will generate seamless scenes in your chosen aspect ratio.
“Composition Reference, Style Presets, and Keyframe Cropping are built to give them more control, more speed, and more creative freedom.”
Adobe is now introducing Generate Sound Effects (beta) — allowing users to create realistic, context-aware soundtracks using voice or text prompts.
“With Generate Sound Effects (beta), users can layer in custom audio using just a prompt or their voice, adding emotion, energy, and cinematic polish to every scene.”
This includes:
Nature sounds (rain, birdsong)
Environmental ambiance
Character-based audio (like a lion’s roar)
All generated sounds are commercially safe and ready for professional use.
The Text to Avatar (beta) feature lets users turn scripts into avatar-led video presentations, ideal for:
Online learning & tutorials
Internal training videos
Scalable content for blogs and social platforms
“They can choose from a diverse library of avatars, customise their background with a colour, image, or video, and select the accent that best fits their video.”
To simplify the creative process, Adobe has added the Enhance Prompt feature. It takes your original input and improves it by:
Reducing ambiguity
Clarifying the creative direction
Generating faster and more relevant results
“Enhance Prompt takes original input and adds language that helps Firefly better understand creative intent. It removes ambiguity, sharpens direction, and speeds your workflow.”
Adobe Firefly’s latest update represents a major leap forward in generative AI for content creation. By combining enhanced motion fidelity with versatile AI video models like Runway Gen-4 and Google Veo3, Adobe is empowering creators with unprecedented control, speed, and realism.
Whether you're generating storyboards, professional-grade videos, or social content, Firefly offers unmatched flexibility through tools like Composition Reference, Style Presets, and Keyframe Cropping.
Meanwhile, the addition of Generate Sound Effects (beta) and Text to Avatar (beta) brings new storytelling dimensions, enabling creators to inject emotion, clarity, and personality into their videos. These features, coupled with commercial safety guarantees, allow professionals and hobbyists alike to produce polished content at scale.
Adobe's commitment to expanding its AI model integrations and improving creative workflows makes Firefly a powerful all-in-one platform for visual storytelling. With tools that blend automation and artistry, Adobe continues to shape the future of content creation.