What changed in Adobe Premiere Pro from 25 to 26

26.3Jun 1, 2026

• Import media from Firefly Boards into Premiere as a ready-to-edit sequence with clips arranged in selection order.
• Generate captions that display one word at a time to create fast-paced, attention-grabbing videos for social platforms. Customize the style and export captions exactly as they appear in your preview.
• Use the new Shape Dissolve transition to create everything from clean wipes to dynamic geometric blends, with full control over shape, motion, and timing.
• Draw attention to important areas of your video with a customizable magnifying lens. Adjust zoom, position, edge softness, and styling to create polished callouts and focus effects.
• Object Mask just got faster, smarter, and more collaboration-ready. Enjoy significantly improved tracking performance for quicker results, plus a new restore capability that automatically rebuilds masks, with all edits intact, when projects move between systems, so teams can share work confidently without losing progress.
• Premiere now supports two new resolutions for RAW X-OCN footage captured with the Sony BURANO V3 camera: full-frame anamorphic 5.8K and Super 35 crop 3.8K (16:9), up to 120 fps.
• Premiere adds support for Canon Cinema RAW Light files from the EOS C50, EOS R6 Mark III, EOS R6 V, and EOS C400, extending support to additional Canon camera models.
• Switching between workspaces in Premiere is now significantly faster, reducing time when moving between editing layouts.
• Control automatic track creation with a new Timeline preference that lets you choose whether Premiere adds tracks when you edit clips into a sequence.
• Opening a Production created in an older version of Premiere is now significantly faster. Large productions that previously took minutes or hours to upgrade now complete in a fraction of the time, with reduced memory usage and improved stability throughout the process.
• Preview Adobe Stock assets in your project and license them directly without leaving Premiere. When a previewed Stock asset appears in the Project panel, a cart icon lets you initiate licensing in place. Once licensed, the asset is added to your Adobe Stock bin, and any instances of the preview in your timeline are automatically replaced with the licensed version.
• Adding a slider in the Search panel so that for search results, the size of thumbnails, audio waveforms, and transcript text can be increased.
• Premiere is now better at detecting and enabling supported GPUs on qualified systems, reducing the number of cases where the application unexpectedly falls back to software rendering. Premiere also now alerts you when your GPU doesn't meet the minimum specifications, so you know when hardware is the cause of performance or rendering issues.
• Premiere now alerts you when your operating system no longer meets minimum requirements. Windows 10 has been discontinued by Microsoft, and support for the same will be removed in a future release of Premiere. If you receive this alert, upgrade to Windows 11 version 24H2 or later to avoid interruption.

26.2Apr 1, 2026

• Explore a new set of Film Impact–powered effects and transitions, including Channel Blur , Gradient , and Noise effects, along with dynamic 3D Spinback and Slide transitions for enhanced compositing, texture, and motion design.
• Refine mask edges with new edge quality controls in Object Masking . Choose between Sharp and Smooth modes to better match your subject and footage.
• Source Monitor now displays audio waveforms alongside video playback, helping you identify audio cues, refine edits, and review clips efficiently.
• View and navigate complex sequences easily with the new Sequence Index panel, featuring a searchable, spreadsheet-style layout.
• Improved path tracking and search logic to automatically locate and reconnect offline media, even across drives and platforms.
• Mute all audio in your sequence at once with Global Mute , without affecting clip or track settings.
• Quickly locate markers with enhanced search by name, comment, or color, and jump directly to their positions in your clip or sequence.
• Use Export Settings to apply Content Credentials to your exported videos, including details like linked social media accounts and generative AI usage preferences.
• Color mode is a brand-new approach to color grading, created specifically for editors' needs. It's been designed to be an accessible, fast-to-learn, and efficient environment for making every clip in your sequence look its best right inside of Premiere (beta).
• Timeline preference that allows users to show or hide audio clip channel labels directly from the Timeline wrench menu.
• Drag preview and licensed assets from the Adobe Stock panel directly to the Timeline or Project panel in Premiere, making it faster to incorporate Stock footage into your workflow.
• Set the exact resolution you need when Auto Reframing your sequence.
• Export sequences to FCP XML and OTIO formats, and access a new scripting API for the Preset Object . Also includes support for the UXP Hybrid Plugin workflow and documentation for ProjectConverter export or import.
• Improved method in the MasterClip class to get the originating project from a cross-reference clip in Productions . This was requested by Enterprise customers to allow for tracing the media back to it's source Project via UXP scripting.
• A new GPU-based drawing system will support mask DM across all graphics manipulation, including Transform and Crop . Improved performance, synchronized drawing (no tearing), and DM support during playback.
• Get real-time visual feedback when resizing timeline tracks by dragging the track header. Track content dynamically updates as you drag, so you can immediately see the impact of your changes.
• The Film Impact dashboard and effects are now localized in the same 10 languages as Premiere, opening them up to a broader audience.
• Upgrading a Premiere Production to a new version of Premiere is now much faster.
• Enterprise customers using Premiere's existing reduced UI option may make changes to the Production panel. For example, hiding some options in the panel, such as Rename Production or Add Project to Production .
• Provides Enterprise customers with the ability to access or modify the Production Scratch Disk settings for all projects in a Production environment via UXP scripting.
• When maximizing the Transcript tab via a keyboard shortcut, the current position in the transcript can be changed.
• Quickly create a spanned marker of a specified duration without first creating a marker, making it spanned, and dragging it out.
• Transcriptions are now faster and more accurate, with improved speaker attribution and better handling of overlapping dialogue.

26.0Jan 1, 2026

• Send media from Adobe Firefly Boards straight to Premiere on desktop for a smoother creative workflow.
• Create and adjust video transitions directly on clips using intuitive handles for faster, more visual editing.
• The Object Mask tool uses AI to automatically identify objects and people in your footage. With a single click, you can select and isolate an object, then track it throughout your shot.
• Redesigned Rectangle , Ellipse , and Pen mask tools make it easier to draw and refine masks with greater precision.
• Thumbnail generation is now GPU-accelerated, delivering faster performance and more accurate, color-managed thumbnails that better match your graded clips.
• Premiere now supports importing and exporting OpenTimelineIO (OTIO) projects, enabling more accurate and flexible interchange of editorial timelines across tools and pipelines.
• Support for importing the new R3D NE format, enabling smoother workflows with single-file RED clips and enhanced audio and metadata support.

26.0Jan 1, 2026

• Premiere now runs natively on Windows on ARM (ARM64), delivering improved performance and responsiveness.
• Starting with version 26.0, macOS Sonoma (version 14) is the minimum requirement.

26.3.2Aug 1, 2026

• A crash could occur when importing MKV files.

26.3Jun 1, 2026

• Transcribing on Windows machines with Intel Arc GPU could fail.
• Double-clicking a sequence marker in the Search panel could cause the playhead to move to the wrong place.
• The transcription progress bar in the Text panel could get stuck when no sequence was open in the timeline, even when a transcript had been created.
• When a subclip was created from a source clip that contained a marker, the Search panel could erroneously show a marker result for the subclip, even though the subclip did not contain a marker.
• When creating a subclip from a marker result in the Search panel, the new subclip would use the wrong timecode and show no marker.
• In the Search panel, search results for a sequence transcript would not update after removing transcribed clips from the sequence.
• The Change Clip Speed (Fit to Fill) option was unavailable during an edit when the source clip had a transcript attached.
• Users were unable to view Effects panel search results for some effects and transitions that contain (Legacy) in the name, due to incorrect search filtering.
• Users with a supported localized language were unable to see Noise (Legacy) in the Effects panel search results.
• Plugin developers who provide custom UI elements would be unable to access incoming media for transitions.
• Korean language users experienced inconsistent translation for Camera Blur in the Effects panel, resulting in the effect name being shown in English.
• The Program Monitor could get stuck indefinitely.
• Exporting to a smaller frame size could result in a loss of video quality in some situations.
• After reopening a project, a clip with Scale to Frame Size enabled could briefly render as black on the first frame.
• Layers beneath a clip that has been repositioned and scaled to more than 100% could incorrectly appear as black pixels.
• When exporting a sequence at a lower resolution, clips upscaled with Motion effects could render at lower quality than expected.
• When the same source clip appears twice in a sequence at different sizes (e.g., in a picture-in-picture layout), one instance would incorrectly snap to the wrong size during playback.
• Layers beneath a scaled and repositioned clip could incorrectly appear as black pixels.
• A crash could occur when Generative Extend was used on a clip that was simultaneously open in the Source Monitor .
• Danger stripes on clips extended with Generative Extend appeared transparent over clip thumbnails, making them difficult to see during the extension process.
• End-of-media indicators did not appear in clips extended with Generative Extend at fractional frame rates.
• Danger stripes on clips extended with Generative Extend could fail to update their position and size when resizing track height or zooming the Timeline , and could persist after undoing a Generative Extend operation.
• Using Generative Extend on a sequence that contained an embedded caption with its audio track deleted could cause a crash.
• Using the Generative Extend tool on a clip with audio gain would double the gain, resulting in incorrect playback volume.
• Sometimes it was necessary to click twice on a project shortcut on the home screen to open it.
• Toggle bounding box mode for Masks would incorrectly create a History item.
• On Windows ARM systems, tool shortcut keys were not appearing in the Tools panel sub-menus.
• Selecting Link Media from the File menu did not open the linked media window.
• Audio distortion could occur when exporting from sequences created from the Social Media project template.
• On Windows, when a project was saved directly to the root of a drive (such as D:\ ), the Scratch Disks section of Project Settings displayed the disk location with an unexpected \\?\ prefix and showed the available free space as ? GB instead of the actual amount.
• Rotating a Mask could result in the cursor flickering.
• Undoing the last Pen Mask control point of a closed Mask shape would result in not being able to exit bounding box mode.
• It was possible to make changes to a Caption in a read-only project.
• Dragging over portions of mask could display an incorrect cursor.
• The Default install language selected in Creative Cloud Desktop could be ignored, causing the application to launch in English instead.
• Export Frame would fail to include enabled captions in the timeline.
• Original audio clips in a sequence were not deselected after nesting them in a new sequence.
• Very small masks in the Program Monitor could not be grabbed or moved.
• Rotate and Resize could occur within the inner portions of a mask, blocking other operations.
• The Hand Tool would not be able to move the video in the Program Monitor if you had closed and then reopened it.
• Metadata added in Export mode was not included when sending export jobs to Adobe Media Encoder.
• The poster frame could not be set on clips extended with Generative Extend .
• The Poster Frame Camera button in the Project panel Preview Area was disabled for sequences and clips extended with Generative Extend .
• Users experienced playback issues in the export mode player.
• In some cases, copying files from a Sony FX6 camera failed on ingest.
• Some users experienced burned-in captions instead of caption sidecar files on export.
• Pressing the tilde key to exit full-screen mode while the program was still loading could leave the Program Monitor permanently stuck in full-screen mode.
• Copy and paste was disabled for offline masks when using the context menu or keyboard shortcuts within a local Premiere project.
• Offline and smooth object masks from a local Premiere project were incorrectly copied to a Team Project when using Paste Attributes .
• Importing an untracked sequence via the Media Browser and then tracking its object mask produced incorrect rendering during playback until the application was relaunched.
• Object mask tracking failed and showed a write-failure dialog when the tracked clip was shorter than 4 frames.
• Mask tracking could cause significant lag and application freezes on Windows ARM devices.
• A pasted mask was not visible in the Effect Controls panel under Unassigned Masks until the sequence was reselected.
• Mask data could fail to copy-paste when the same media was pasted into a second sequence, if the first pasted sequence had been opened and rendered without being closed.
• Tracking did not work correctly in a multicam sequence when the selected camera angle was not on the topmost track in the source multicam sequence.
• After switching from multicam view back to composite mode, the object mask cursor was not visible in the Program Monitor ; only the standard cursor appeared.
• After resetting an offline mask, the Lasso or Rectangle mask mode buttons and the mask edit tools were not visible in the Program Monitor until the cursor was moved into the panel.
• Mask controls remained visible in the Program Monitor after deleting a sequence that contained an object mask.
• Direct Manipulation controls stopped working after dragging a clip onto a higher video track while the playhead was positioned over another clip.
• When multiple masks are selected in the Effect Controls panel, the Direct Manipulation menu in the Program Monitor could show the wrong mask as the active mask.
• Windows users were unable to change the timecode in the Program Monitor when the Type Tool was selected.
• Resetting the Effects workspace placed the Effect Controls panel in the foreground instead of the Source Monitor .
• A crash could occur when importing ARRIRAW MXF files with incomplete header metadata.
• On some lower-end systems, exporting video was slower than expected.
• A crash could occur during the import of HEIC, HEIF, or WebP files.
• The Program Monitor could remain unresponsive and freeze during AVCHD (MTS) playback.

26.2.2May 1, 2026

• Fixed a critical issue that impacted general stability and could cause Premiere to hang.

26.2Apr 1, 2026

• Project Index (.prin) files were not automatically saved when performing a Save As on the project.
• Splitting a caption could result in a duplicate caption rather than the caption being correctly split.
• The cross icon to clear a search in the Search panel could disappear after a Find Similar Frames search.
• Maximizing the Text panel with a long transcription could cause the highlighted words to lose focus and scroll to a random section.
• Opening a transcript segment with the Pen tool could sometimes cut off some text lines in text correction mode.
• Morph Cut could crash while adjusting media In or Out points during analysis.
• Program Monitor could play back with black or color-shifted frames on Windows ARM systems with some effects applied.
• Exports to ProRes 4444 with alpha could fail with a GPU acceleration error when certain effects were applied over text or graphic layers.
• Generating a transcript on some newer macOS computers could produce incorrect results, with spoken dialogue omitted or replaced with incorrect words.
• Previously saved Label Color Presets may not appear in the Labels preferences dropdown menu.
• Spell check could fail to underline misspelled words.
• Selecting the option to change the output destination when exporting markers and then cancelling could cause the option to be displayed as a drop-down menu.
• The Default Cloud Media download path has been changed to a common location (~ /Documents/Adobe ), but preferences need to be manually reset to see this change.
• The size and position of the timecode overlay displayed when trimming have been updated and should now match the Metadata & Timecode Burn-in effect.
• Marker exports to comma-separated CSV format did not use commas as separators.
• Using a shortcut to toggle the Direct Manipulation option in the Program Monitor could cause the application to crash.
• Source Monitor did not show the updated clip name after renaming a clip.
• Custom shortcuts assigned to tools did not appear in tool tips in the Tools panel.
• When processing-intensive third-party plug-ins are used, the application could hang or crash on quit.
• Using Restore Unrendered for render and replaced media could fail under some circumstances when the Render and Replace location was set to Next to Original Media .
• The Paste Insert To Target Track command could fail if the project is closed and reopened.
• When the Link Media or Media Browser dialog was moved to a display with a different resolution, blank space could appear when the dialog was reopened.
• Autosave files could get saved to the wrong destination when two or more projects were open from different parent folder locations.
• Option + Left or Right arrow did not move the cursor by word when renaming items in the Project panel or bins in macOS.
• The Open Folder button in the marker export dialog did not open the correct directory for some file types.
• Changing volume levels in the Essential Sound panel while previewing audio with Timeline Sync enabled changed audio levels in the sequence as well.
• When tracking a mask that was applied to a trimmed clip with Speed: Reverse enabled, the tracking could fail to track the entire displayed clip range.
• The Status and Offline Properties Metadata columns were updated properly when a Gen-Extended clip was taken offline, but the matching Metadata panel values were not.
• Type setting for a 608/708 caption segment could revert after deselecting and re-selecting the segment.
• When creating a Bezier mask control point with the Alt or Option modifier, releasing the modifier during the drag could cause the control point to move.
• Object masks applied to a multi-camera clip could display improperly when viewing in the Source Monitor .
• Keyframe would revert to linear interpolation once a value was changed.
• Shapes with the same numerical values for Position , Anchor Point , Width , and Height might not align correctly.
• The Direct Manipulation menu in the Program Monitor could improperly show when Show Transport Controls were disabled.
• The aspect ratio of some H.264 files was not displayed correctly when using the Japanese language in Premiere.
• Older projects with RED R3D media could display black frames in the Program Monitor and Source Monitor .
• Some M2V files could fail to import correctly.
• Spanned media recorded with the Canon XF705 could fail to import correctly.
• The aspect ratio could incorrectly be set at 1.0075 for some H.264 files.
• Smart Rendering of ProRes 422 files recorded on an iPhone 16 Pro using the Blackmagic Camera app could result in upside-down video due to embedded rotation metadata.
• Scrubbing some XAVC HS MP4 files could be slow.
• Applying Scene Edit Detection to some media files could cause playback to become unresponsive.
• Some 4:4:4 HEVC MP4 files could incorrectly be displayed as 4:2:0 in Media Properties .
• Dragging the slider in the Comparison View of the Lumetri panel failed to update the reference frame display.
• Customers using Premiere Productions could have seen duplicate ID errors when no duplicate ID actually existed.
• With language set to German, the Presets ( Vorgaben ) folder in the effects panel did not appear.
• Media imported via Import mode was incorrectly recorded as UNC paths instead of mapped drive letters. This caused performance issues when reopening the project and media offline issues in other applications when using AAF, EDL, and XML.
• In the Project panel's Icon View , keyboard navigation via Enter or Tab was inconsistent and broken.
• When maximizing the Transcript tab with a keyboard shortcut, the current position in the transcript could be changed.
• Hardware HEVC exports on Apple silicon devices used an open GOP encoding structure, which could cause poor seek and scrub performance.
• Crash could occur when unlinking Track Items with a Video Transition selected.
• Audio clips failed to display the Apply Preset option and associated preset pulldown menu within the Essential Sound badge context menu after resetting application preferences.
• An adaptive audio track's disabled track output assignment was still audible under some circumstances.
• History panel listed Shape Transition when modifying the video transition.

26.0.2Mar 1, 2026

• When exporting a sequence through Adobe Media Encoder, a Missing Mask Data warning could appear, and object mask data may not be included in the exported media.

26.0.1Feb 1, 2026

• The Premiere installation could ignore the default install language setting in Creative Cloud desktop, resulting in English-language-only access.

26.0Jan 1, 2026

• For some customers, opening the Stock panel could cause a hang in UXP-based panels such as the Text , Import , and Export panels.
• UXP did not have the equivalent of ExtendScript's ability to get the frame rate of a sequence.
• The Search panel Filters dialog box would not allow saving after all filters had been cleared.
• In a transcript, if a manual text selection was done within a text search range, the text selection highlight was hidden under the text search highlight.
• The Direct Manipulation toggle would disable itself after navigating across clips when using Go To Next or Previous Edit Point keyboard shortcuts.
• The custom UI for third-party transitions could fail to display in the Program Monitor .
• Some customers could get Windows permissions errors when saving a project.
• ExtendScript was unavailable.
• Using draggable hot-text controls could cause other UI elements to activate during a mouse-up gesture.
• On macOS, selecting the Help link in the Preferences panel could lead to a crash if the network was unavailable.
• Proxies could lag during high-speed scrubbing the first time they were viewed on project open.
• Uploads to Behance could fail.
• Setting the Default Media Scaling option in the Media preferences to Fit to Frame did not scale the media.
• While entering text, it was not possible to add a second stroke to the text. Text had to be entered and then modified.
• The Direct Manipulation menu in the Program Monitor could improperly show as Enabled when switching between Display Modes .
• Some customers could experience a crash when using Direct Manipulation in the Program Monitor .
• The appearance of the Set Scale Lock icon in the Properties panel could be incorrect.
• For some scripts, including Arabic, Sinhala, and Tamil, selecting parts of the text did not detect glyph boundaries correctly, leading to wrong selections.
• Playback of some ARRIRAW HDE files could display black frames and incorrect durations.
• Crashes could occur when playing hardware-accelerated QuickTime video.
• When using IPP2 mode with R3D media, Chromatic Noise Reduction was improperly labeled as Denoise , and D.E.B. was incorrectly available.
• A crash during startup could occur when certain third-party codecs were installed on the computer.
• On some MP4 files, the incorrect frame was displayed as the first frame of the video.
• The Synchronize feature could be unexpectedly slow or appear to hang.
• Using proxies with a different frame rate than the original VFR (Variable Frame Rate) source media could cause poor playback performance.
• Incorrect chroma subsampling information was displayed in the Properties panel for HEVC 8-bit 4:2:2 media.
• For some R3D media, default values for Color Space and Gamma Curve were applied, instead of Premiere reading the values in the media metadata.
• Applying a LUT with a non-English name would display incorrect characters in RED Source Settings .
• The Color Space and Gamma Curve settings would appear twice in RED Source Settings when set to the Legacy mode.
• In Windows > Extensions > Film Impact Dashboard , the Apply button did not show a depressed state when clicked, making it harder to see if the action was started.
• In Windows > Extensions > Film Impact Dashboard , applying a transition did not give a warning when two adjoining clips had no overlapping media.
• In Lumetri Color > Edit > Basic Correction > Input LUT , it was not possible to browse and select a LUT if Auto-Refresh Input LUT/Look was enabled from the Lumetri panel menu.
• Re-linking of MXF files could take longer than expected.
• On Windows, the clip outline, snap function, or playhead were not visible when dragging clips in the timeline if GPU-accelerated UI rendering was disabled.
• When using the Loudness Normalization effect during export, all streams were being loudness-normalized, regardless of the Process checkbox setting.
• A clip's keyframe line could disappear after adding a frame hold.
• The mouse pointer could disappear when adjusting submix keyframes if the number of submix tracks exceeded the number of standard audio tracks.