26.5WindowsmacOS
September 2026 (version 26.5)
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- Generate video and sound effects with the Generative Media Tool directly in your Premiere timeline. Add the generated media as editable clips to your sequence, so you can continue refining your edit.
- Create sequences from transcripts with Paper Edit . Select multiple lines of transcript in the Text panel and use them to quickly construct sequences.
- Bring footage from Sony FX5 cameras directly into your editing workflow with expanded camera support. Edit Sony XAVC and XOCN media with support for 32-bit float Hi-Res audio in Premiere alongside your other media for a more seamless production workflow.
- Improved ProRes RAW support. Enhanced compatibility makes it easier to bring ProRes RAW footage into your editing workflow in Premiere.
- Match audio settings automatically with Match Source . Match Source now includes your source's audio channels and sample rate, with automatic downmixing and warnings when a format can't support the source's channel layout.
- Refine Object Masks with new smoothness controls for more precise, natural-looking mask edges.
- Enjoy three new and updated effects: a fully customizable Lens Flare for cinematic looks, a rebuilt Twirl distortion effect with new controls (the original is now under Legacy), and an updated softness control in Mosaic for crisper, more natural results at low settings.
- Generative Extend now supports more source media, including resolutions from 360p to 4K UHD, any aspect ratio, and interlaced or non-square-pixel footage. You can also extend clips from 12–60 fps, 8-bit to 16-bit, and SDR or HDR sources. Your original media stays unchanged while Premiere generates the extension in a supported format.
- Bring ARRICORE media from ALEXA 35 Xtreme cameras directly into your editing workflow. Expanded support makes it easier to work with footage from this latest ARRI camera workflow in Premiere.
- Take advantage of hardware-accelerated 4:2:2 10-bit decoding for AVC and HEVC in MXF on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
- Get faster preview generation with expanded Smart Rendering support for XAVC-I media, including XAVC Intra Class 100 1080 and XAVC Intra Class 300 UHD.
- Show or hide audio and video transition handles in the timeline, with new options in the Timeline Display Settings and matching keyboard shortcuts.
- Get more accurate transcription with a new Voice Activity Detection model for speech-to-text.
- Decode MotionJPEG , MKV , and RLE Animation MOV natively on Windows on ARM.
- Locate, offline, or reset media faster with a new context menu option in the Link Media dialog.
- A button for Selection Follows Playhead was added to the timeline.
- An option to turn off dynamic timeline updates during ripple trimming has been added to Preferences > Trim .
Changed 63
- Editing captions in right-to-left languages (such as Arabic) in the Text p anel could cause an error and momentarily blank the caption text.
- For video effects with a Surprise Me! control, the Seed property in the Effect Controls panel did not appear instantly.
- Footage with a pixel aspect ratio different from the sequence could appear cropped when effects were applied and the sequence resolution was smaller than the source media.
- After rendering, areas defined by an opacity mask could briefly appear as black.
- Shift did not constrain new vertex placement to the 45-degree angles when drawing a mask path with the Pen Tool .
- Project panel Preview Area thumbnail would redraw when moving Effect Controls panel keyframes.
- Creating a caption track via API could result in the track containing no stream index.
- For the Transform effect, the motion path was missing from the UI in the Program Monitor .
- Multiple selected text layers could not be moved or transformed together in the Properties panel.
- Guide position did not update while editing guides.
- Ease keyframes would change to auto-bezier and create an unexpected path.
- Source Graphic text would not update via the Program Monitor .
- Controls inside the Add Guide and Edit Guide dialog were broken.
- With Snap enabled in the Program Monitor , snapping an element to another element was not possible.
- For graphics, keyframes would not be created or changed when using Direct Manipulation on the Program Monitor for scale and rotation parameters.
- An incorrect or stale style could appear in the Properties panel for text layers.
- While Direct Manipulation was active, guides would disappear when the CTI moved off of the clip.
- Double-clicking in the Program Monitor would not select the clip at the playhead when there was an existing selection on the timeline.
- After using Auto adjustment in the Lumetri Color effect, undo did not apply correctly.
- When changing any font parameter or resizing Direct Manipulation , captions would judder in the Program Monitor .
- The Hide Caption Track option would improperly display as hidden.
- The gradient fill would not remain sticky when creating a new shape.
- The Closed Caption button displayed improperly in the Timeline .
- The Dip To Black transition did not always reach true black frames.
- Tracking a mask on non-square-pixel media in 26.x versions was less accurate than in previous versions.
- Object Mask tracking could produce jagged, stair-stepped edges or appear boxy or pixelated along the edges.
- Extending the start of a clip with the Generative Extend tool could result in offsets to existing Object Mask tracking.
- Changing a sequence's frame rate after seeking could cause the Object Mask hover preview to become misaligned with the current frame.
- An offset in audio waveforms could occur when using the Generative Extend tool on the head of a clip.
- Repeatedly dragging multiple Search panel results into the timeline could cause a crash or unresponsiveness.
- When searching for markers in the Search panel, the first letter of a word suggestion could appear highlighted and duplicated.
- Sidecar cache files for Media Intelligence (.prmi) were not used when importing media in cases where the files had been modified after the sidecar was created.
- When playing an audio search result in the Search panel, playback could start with a short delay and the waveform animation could fall out of sync.
- Dragging a marker subclip from the Search panel onto the timeline could fail to place the clip on the timeline.
- Searching for effects by attribute could fail to return matching effects saved in the Favorites folder.
- Relinking media could fail when the mounted volume name was changed, or when moving from macOS to Windows (or Windows to macOS).
- When exporting a selection as a project, an inappropriate default filename was generated.
- Re-linking of MXF files could take longer than expected and make opening projects very slow.
- Windows-originated projects could fail to auto-relink media on macOS when the project was nested more than one folder deep.
- When a project referenced media on an external drive and the drive was not mounted at load time, the media would not automatically relink when the drive was re-mounted.
- Final Cut Pro XML import could result in Cross-Dissolve transitions importing as Cross-Dissolve (Legacy) .
- Exporting sequences using Dynamic Link could cause UI glitches in the Adobe Media Encoder encoding panel.
- Growing MXF files on shared storage could intermittently go offline when a project was refreshed or reopened.
- MKV files recorded with OBS could result in dropped frames during playback.
- The start timecode of 100fps media could be misread when using proxies generated by a media asset management system, causing the proxy and high-res files to be out of sync on export.
- Importing a project or sequence with embedded closed captions could add duplicate audio tracks.
- Using Reveal in Project within a Production could cause a hang.
- Project View Presets did not save or load correctly.
- The list of recently used Productions in the Open Production dialog contained numerous menu separators.
- On Windows, the Save Project As dialog did not open in the active project's directory.
- The Sync Status column in the set of Metadata Display choices was unused.
- Typing an integer into a floating-point effect control value could cause the project to appear edited when there was no change in the value.
- The Open Production dialog could show a folder's root name instead of the production's name.
- Moving unlicensed assets in the Project panel while in Icon view could cause an error message to appear.
- " Delete media file(s) from disk " in the Delete Selection with Options dialog was not working.
- The list of recently used Productions in the Open Production dialog showed incorrect paths.
- A Production saved in a newer version would silently fail to open, when it should have shown an error message.
- Opening a Production created with a newer version could incorrectly flag it as invalid and overwrite its PRODSET file.
- After a clip was moved to a different project, opening a Production project with a sequence containing the clip did not update the cross-project reference to the clip, breaking operations such as Reveal in Project .
- Trashing a Production project or folder with a numeric suffix in its name multiple times altered the original number instead of appending a new one, e.g. "Foo_01" became "Foo_1" instead of "Foo_01_1".
- In a Production, moving a project or folder silently failed if an item with the same name already existed in the destination folder.
- Reading project lock file data in a Production could cause the user interface to feel sluggish.
- Changing Pan on multiple audio clips would result in incorrect values of -100 or 100.