Premiere Pro 25.5, with its recent aquasition of Film Impact, is introducing more than 90 new, modern effects, transitions, and animations, all included in your plan. The high-value library is now seamlessly built into Premiere Pro. No need for a separate plug-in or subscription. Adobe states this is just the beginning of new effects workflows coming to Premiere Pro. They’re all GPU-accelerated, playing back in real time as soon as you drag and drop. And they’ll keep on playing back in real time, no matter how many tweaks you make. No more red render bars.
Adobe has been listening to their users’ feedback and every “I wish it could…” and “what if it just…”
They have paired all these new motion capabilities with quality-of-life upgrades that cut steps, smooth bumps, and keep you in your creative flow. Such as a more responsive timeline playback, beautifully dynamic visual waveforms, and smoother, GPU-accelerated editing keep you in the zone from start to finish. Plus, we’re bringing more quality-of-life improvements to After Effects, too.
Adobe states the new release is by editors, for editors — built to spark your imagination, remove friction, and give you more time to focus on what matters most: telling great stories.
Upgraded color grading
The new library of effects in Premiere Pro helps you take your visuals to the next level faster than ever. The collection of glows, blurs, and echoes help you add photorealistic bokeh, volumetric rays, glowing halation, and dazzling glints to your clips. Apply vignettes that warp to any shape you desire. Independently shift red, green, and blue channels to color correct for fluorescent lighting. plus curve editors, color pickers, chromatic aberration, custom blend modes, and much more. Even add a camera shake effect so realistic you’ll swear your tripod shots were captured on someone’s shoulder.
Snappier timeline
Since the launch of Premiere Pro, dragging a clip on the timeline meant moving around an empty rectangle. If you wanted to see how an edit would impact the audio, you’d have to eyeball it and guess until you got the result you wanted. Now audio waveforms remain visible when dragging a clip or performing common edit tasks, like ripple/roll edits or rate stretch.
Key updates
- Preference to set the default font for text and captions — you got it! No more Minion Pro.
- Work from the keyboard even faster with new shortcuts for toggling track mute and solo based on track targeting.
- Don’t you hate it when you try to add a keyframe to the last frame of a clip in the Effect Controls panel and it jumps to the beginning of the next clip? Fixed that too!
- Working with higher-end color and finishing workflows? Now you can import 16-bit PNG files. Plus, improved the data range and color metadata handling for PNG, DNxHR, and DNxHD.
- Organization is everything, so use new Sequence Color Tabs to add some visual guidance to your workflow.
- Completely rewrote support for MKV.
