Chromebooks Will Get A Video Editing App With Adobe's Project Rush

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Adobe"s Project Rush

Articles extolling the virtues of Chromebooks almost always mention that they have become powerful enough to handle everything most people do with a computer outside of power-hungry applications like video editing. That’s about to change with Adobe’s Project Rush.

Project Rush combines editing tools from Premier Pro, motion effects from After Effects and audio processing from Audition into a comprehensive video editing app. Videos are synced to the cloud, so you can work on them wherever you happen to be. The major breakthrough with Rush is that it is built from the ground up to be fully functional on mobile devices along with Windows and Mac machines.

Rush will have an Android app, but will it work on a Chromebook? Android Central reports that Ant Pruitt from Tech Republic spoke with Adobe and found out the answer is yes, Chromebooks that run Android apps “will be able to easily utilize Project Rush”.

A launch date for Rush hasn’t been announced. The app is currently in beta and you can sign up if you’d like to get involved.

Project Rush looks promising and the ability to run it on a Chromebook is exciting. If the app works as advertised, tech journalists like me are going to have to find something other than “video editing” to insert as a boilerplate example of something Chromebooks can’t do.

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Kevin Murnane covers science, technology and video games for Forbes. His blogs are The Info Monkey & Tuned In To Cycling and he"s The Info Monkey on Facebook & @TheInfoMonkey on Twitter.