26.2WindowsmacOS
April 2026 (version 26.2)
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- 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.
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- 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.