Announcements

We added the ability to hide the on-clip fade/transition handles.  Find this setting in the “timeline display settings” wrench menu.  You have independent control over video and audio fade handles.  If you find that turning them on an off is a common occurrence, keyboard shortcuts may be assigned as well.The on-clip fade handles make it easier to create audio fades and video cross-dissolves and can greatly speed up your editing.  But for some users they get in the way of basic editing functions like trimming and moving clips.  If you are one of these people for whom the fade handles are more of a hindrance than a help, we now allow you to turn them off. Just in case you didn’t know, you can customize the look and feel of your sequence in many ways in this menu.  We want to know what you think.  Please join the conversation below.

Hey everyone!We are excited to share a new feature in Text-Based Editing: Paper Edit. It is in build 34 of Premiere Beta. Many of you have asked for the ability to highlight multiple sections of a transcript and preview them before creating a new sequence.Here’s how it works:Start from a single Source Clip or an existing Sequence. Click the Paper Edit button  Highlight what you want to keep. When you click into Paper Edit mode, you can read through your transcript and highlight the sections you want to use. Before you commit anything to a sequence, select “Preview.” This allows you to playback the selections and make changes. Click on a selection to omit it. If something doesn’t sound good in your preview, just remove it by clicking on the text. Jump between sections in long sequences. If your raw footage is long, you can quickly jump between sections instead of scrolling endlessly.We would love to hear what you think! Give Paper Edit a spin and let us know if there is anything we can

Hey everyone, A few updates are landing in Object Masking ahead of the next release. Here's what's changing.  Choose your tracking quality: Better Quality vs. Faster Today, tracking runs on a model which is tuned for speed. It does a solid job in the common case, but mask detail is capped by its resolution, and it can also lose the subject in longer clips and through occlusion. We've built a new tracking model to close both of those gaps. Better Quality tracks at a higher mask resolution than Faster, which shows up as real gains in mask detail and edge quality, especially on hair, fur, and fine edges. It also adds long-term memory, which should meaningfully help tracking hold onto the subject through occlusion and in longer clips. The tradeoff: the higher resolution makes Better Quality slower, noticeably so on some systems. So we're giving you the choice to select tracker of your choice. You'll see two tracking quality options:  Faster: This is the default tracker, today's tracking re

Hi all,We've overhauled how Premiere handles Variable Frame Rate (VFR) media, and the change is now live in the latest Premiere beta.  We'd appreciate your help testing it before it ships.VFR footage - screen and game capture, livestreams, phone video, and more - stores frames with varying durations rather than a fixed rate. Our aim with this change is smoother playback, more accurate timing and duration, and more consistent handling across clips.What we'd love you to testScreen recordings (macOS capture, OBS, Xbox Game Bar, ShadowPlay, etc.) iPhone and Android footage — very often VFR Game and livestream capture Any MP4 / MOV / MPEG clip with an unusual or fractional frame rate Timelines mixing VFR and constant-frame-rate clipsWhat to look forSmooth playback, no new stutter or dropped frames Audio and video stay in sync, especially on longer clips Reported duration and frame count match the source Frames land where you expect when scrubbing and stepping Exports match the source clipIf

Who just got a glow-up? Effects, that's who!If I had a nickel for every time a new video editor opened up the ECP and said, "Wow, was this built in the 90s?" I wouldn't be typing this blog post right now. I'd be sitting on my veranda with a strong Manhattan in my hand and looking out at the Caribbean. If I had a penny for every time a seasoned video editor told me they had the muscle memory of an Olympic typist, but that they need to invest in 4.00 reading glasses just to SEE the parameters for Bokeh blur well... you get it. Your disdain for the ECP is loud and clear.Have we got a solution for you! Brand new to Public Beta we now have Effects in the Properties Panel! Video Effects! Audio Effects! Masks! Even some color (but you should still go over to our brand new Color Mode for adjusting your Temperature and Saturation because oo la la!)You may have noticed that we are investing in better effects experiences. Building on the acquisition of Film Impact last year, we are now surfacing

The Effects panel just got a major glow-up! Animated previews give you a sense of what an effect does, and advanced search makes it more likely you'll find what you're looking for. It's visual, it's fun, and it just might help you find something creative that's been hiding in plain sight.Say hello to the New Effects Panel — a reimagined Effects panel that shows you what an effect actually does before you commit to it.What's NewAnimated preview thumbnails. Hover over an effect or transition and you'll see a short animated preview of it in action, so you know what you're getting before you drag it onto a clip. Preview from Source. Want to know what an effect will look like on your footage, not a generic clip? Preview from Source is an option that shows the effect applied to whatever's under your playhead in the Program Monitor. Scrubbing stays smooth — previews update once you let go of the playhead, not while you're dragging through it. Smarter search. We overhauled search with keyword

 The HSL Mask Tool and Luminance Mask Tool let you create a mask based on color or brightness in your footage, rather than drawing a shape by hand. Sample a color or luminance range directly from the frame and Premiere generates the mask for you. This differs from HSL Secondary, which isolates a color for grading rather than creating a mask you can apply to any effect.To create a mask, long press the mask icon in the toolbar and select HSL Mask or Luminance Mask. Then click on the area of your clip in the Program Monitor that contains the color or brightness range you want to mask.Masks created with these tools appear in the Properties panel under the effect they are attached to, and work in both Edit mode and Color Mode. You can adjust the range at any time, invert the mask, or combine it with other masks on the same clip.Learn More about HSL mask 

The object detection in Object Masking tool is getting an upgrade. If you are using the latest Beta, you are already using it. We wanted to share what's changing.When you move your cursor over the Program Monitor with the Object Mask tool active, colored overlays snap to objects in the frame before you click. That instant preview is meant to be fast, confident, and complete. It works great for common foreground subjects. But for many other things you might have found yourself reaching for the rectangle or lasso fallback more often than you'd like.What's changingWe've upgraded the underlying model powering object detection. The new experience is meaningfully better across three dimensions:More objects detected. The new model surfaces roughly twice as many selectable objects per scene. Objects that were previously invisible to the object detection pipeline- props, background elements, layered subjects with props, now light up.More complete object boundaries. Mask boundaries are more accu

TL;DRWe shipped three Beta improvements to Object Masking: Sharpness (Smooth Mask edge refinement) with two control modes, a Mask Expansion slider to nudge boundaries, and an in-session Mask Offline notification so you can locate or restore missing mask files while you work.  What’s included in this BetaSharpness (Smooth Mask Edge Refinement) - A new control in Effect Controls for Smooth Masks that adjusts how much of the lower-confidence fringe around the confident mask core is included. That fringe is what gives Smooth Mask its soft, natural blend on hair and fine detail, Sharpness control lets you tune it. S-Curve (default) — Contrast and Midpoint sliders for quick, intuitive adjustments. Levels — Input Black, Input White, and Gamma for linear, granular control if you prefer level-style tweaks. Both modes operate on the same underlying mask data so you can switch between them to compare. Mask Expansion - A single slider centered at 0 that physically shifts a mask boundary inward

Hey everyone! We’re excited to share a new addition to the voiceover recording workflow that just landed in Premiere Beta 26.5.0 Build 59: Live waveforms while you record.This feature is on by default and is designed to give you immediate visual feedback as you record. No more recording blind and waiting until you stop to see what you captured.What’s New?When you record a voiceover now, the audio draws onto the timeline in real time. As you speak into the mic, the waveform renders live in the clip, so you can see your levels, pacing, and pauses as they happen. Your recording takes shape in front of you instead of showing up only after you hit stop.Where to find itYou’ll see the waveform render automatically in the target track the moment you start a voiceover recording. There’s nothing to turn on. As soon as you begin, the audio draws into the clip in real time so you can follow the take as it happens.Live waveform feedback while recording a voiceoverWhy this mattersRecording voiceover

In v25.3 of Premiere, After Effects, and Media Encoder, support was added for hardware acceleration of 10-bit 4:2:2 media in both H.264 and HEVC codecs in MP4 and MOV containers. Now in beta is an update to this support, adding hardware acceleration to files in the MXF container. This support applies to customers using NVIDIA’s Blackwell Architecture GPU in computers with Intel or AMD CPUs. It will also support customers using NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX Spark chip. We’d love to get your feedback on this expanded support for Blackwell Architecture!

As we prepare for our upcoming version 27.0 release of Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Media Encoder, and Audition, we are sharing an important update regarding Macintosh hardware compatibility. Beginning with version 27.0, our video and audio applications on the Mac platform will require Apple silicon (M1 or later) processors. Intel-based Mac systems will no longer be supported for v27.0 and future updates. What Macintosh Users Need to Know Intel-Based Macs: You can continue installing and using version 26.x. Security updates for v26.x will continue per our standard support lifecycle. To update to v27.0 upon release, an Apple silicon Macintosh will be required. Apple silicon Macs (M1 or newer): No action needed. You can update to v27.0 as normal. Moving exclusively to Apple silicon on macOS allows us to focus on modern architecture and hardware acceleration across our video and audio applications. This update also aligns our roadmap with Apple’s transition roadmap: Apple has announced