Every top AI model, inside your timeline
Agencies don’t want another tab. The InstaStudio panel lives in Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop and DaVinci Resolve: write the prompt, see the credit cost, generate, and the clip lands in your project at the playhead — same models, same credits, same workspace as the web Studio.
Auto picks the cheapest model that meets your quality bar, or choose any of the image / video models from the picker.
A live estimate in credits updates as you type. Failed generations are refunded automatically.
Downloaded next to your project file, imported into the bin and inserted at the playhead (Premiere, AE, Resolve) or placed as a layer (Photoshop).
Sign in with an API key stored in the host’s secure storage. Credits, history and brand kit are shared with your team’s Studio.
Downloads
Plain HTML/JS panels and a Python script — no installers, nothing phones home except your InstaStudio server. Open-source under the MIT licence.
- ✓Image + video generation with model picker, Auto mode and live estimate
- ✓Insert at the playhead (Premiere) · place as a layer (Photoshop)
- ✓Send the selected clip / document as a reference for image-to-video and edits
- ✓Explainer, Website → video and Story agents with plan approval
- ✓History with one-click import
- · Video mode is hidden in Photoshop
- · Needs Premiere Pro 25.6+ (UXP API); older Premiere → CEP panel
- Unzip. Install the UXP Developer Tool from Creative Cloud Desktop.
- Developer Tool → Add Plugin → pick manifest.json → Load.
- Window → Extensions / Plugins → InstaStudio. Package to .ccx from the same tool to share with the team.
- ✓Same panel as UXP, with an ExtendScript bridge
- ✓After Effects: footage imported and added as a layer at the current time
- ✓Premiere: imported into the bin and inserted on V1 at the playhead
- ✓Selected layer / clip as reference upload
- ✓Agents and history
- · Unsigned build: enable PlayerDebugMode or sign a .zxp with ZXPSignCmd (steps in the README)
- Unzip into ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Adobe\CEP\extensions (Windows).
- Allow unsigned panels: defaults write com.adobe.CSXS.12 PlayerDebugMode 1 (macOS) / HKCU\Software\Adobe\CSXS.12 → PlayerDebugMode=1.
- Restart the app → Window → Extensions → InstaStudio.
- ✓Prompt, model picker, Auto mode and live estimate
- ✓Downloads the result, imports it into the Media Pool and appends it to the current timeline
- ✓History list with re-import
- ✓Headless mode for automation (--headless)
- · Appends to the end of the timeline (no insert-at-playhead in Resolve’s API)
- · No agents or clip upload in this version
- Unzip and copy InstaStudio.py into …/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Scripts/Utility (paths for macOS / Windows / Linux in the README).
- Install Python 3 from python.org if Resolve asks; Preferences → System → General → External scripting = Local.
- Restart Resolve → Workspace → Scripts → Utility → InstaStudio.
How it connects
Every panel talks to the same REST API as your own integrations: https://studio.instadatahelp.com/api/v1 with Authorization: Bearer is_live_…. Create a key in Studio → API & Developers (Max and Team plans). Building for another editor? The API reference covers models, estimates, generations, uploads, agents and the download route the plugins use.