Now in Beta: 5 new effects and transitions coming to Premiere

When it comes to color grading, Premiere still feels limited. The main issue, to me, is precision. The behavior of Lumetri tools, especially the color wheels, doesn’t feel as controlled or predictable as in DaVinci Resolve. It’s not just about having fewer tools, it’s about how they respond. The underlying math feels less refined.

There have been good improvements, like color space transforms and a more color-managed workflow inside Lumetri. That’s a real step forward. But it loses impact when the core tools still lack precision.

LUT handling is another weak point. You still need to manually place files inside program folders, there’s no proper library to organize them, and the preview system is very limited. You can’t compare LUTs side by side, you have to click one by one. It breaks the workflow. What’s frustrating is that Premiere already has a preview system for Lumetri presets, but it doesn’t extend properly to custom LUTs. The solution feels close, but unfinished.

This lack of visual feedback also appears in the effects panel. Unless you already know what an effect does, you’re guessing. A simple preview thumbnail for each effect would make a big difference, especially for newer users. A small dynamic preview, even using a standard sample image, would help people understand instantly what each effect does without needing to apply and test it. It would reduce friction, speed up learning, and make the whole experience more intuitive from the start.

On the timeline side, something as simple as a toggleable magnetic timeline would save a lot of time. In complex edits, closing gaps and reorganizing clips becomes manual and inefficient. Other tools already solve this in a very practical way.

Motion graphics templates also feel heavy, likely because of the After Effects engine behind them. At the same time, organization is weak. It often feels like a large collection of presets without a clear system.

And then there’s animated captions. This is no longer a niche feature. Short-form content depends heavily on it. Right now, to create dynamic captions, I have to leave Premiere and use tools like CapCut. Inside Premiere, doing this manually can take hours for a one-minute video, while other tools do it in seconds. That gap is too large, especially considering how central this format has become.

There are also smaller frictions that add up. Motion blur still requires adding a separate transform effect instead of being part of the main motion controls. The keyframe graph exists, but it’s unstable and hard to work with. The audio system feels outdated, with limited flexibility for more advanced workflows. Stabilization and upscaling also lag behind what AI-based tools already offer today.

Even basic actions, like reorganizing tracks, require multiple manual steps.

I know this can sound like criticism, but it comes from daily use. Premiere is still a powerful tool, but there are clear gaps between what it does well and what modern workflows demand.

There have even been community efforts, years ago, proposing more advanced color systems within Adobe itself. The ideas are there. The demand is there.

From the outside, it feels less like a lack of direction and more like unfinished potential.

I’d like the program to include more transition animations for both video and text, since we have to use After Effects to create these animations and then export them to Premiere. Please add more style transitions, and also more audio transitions, since there aren’t enough options for audio.

For heaven's sake, Adobe needs to pin the “Transform” effect to the “Effect Controls” tab! It would be so much better than those transition effects we never use :(😩

Hi Francis, I’ve been following Premiere’s evolution through years and, honestly, I really like the direction you’ve been taking, especially with the AI integration. You guys are doing great...

But there are two areas that, for me, have been major pain points for years and still haven’t received the attention they deserve: color grading and animated captions/titles.

Starting with color grading, Premiere is still far behind when it comes to ease of use and workflow. And this isn’t just a matter of preference...you guys have no ideia how this in a real-world use it directly impacts production time, breaks the editing flow, and often forces us to leave Premiere to another software only to do something that should be simple within it (and no matter how powerful Premiere is, is still hard to do some things, and I’ll get there). 

When you look at DaVinci Resolve, for example, the difference is very clear. The way color grading is structured there, with a more visual logic, more intuitive panels with that nodes stuff, and more direct controls, makes adjustments that would absolutely take longer in Premiere feel much faster and more natural, the responsiveness, the organization of tools, and the clarity of the process make everything flow better… I’ve been maried Premiere for many years... I even have YouTube videos from 2009 using it. I’ve always been loyal and still am, and I’m tired of cheating Premiere with DaVinci... But in practice, color grading in Premiere still requires more time, more trial and error, and less precision than it should… and the worst…easily to mess things up.

In most projects, I end up exporting footage, taking it into DaVinci Resolve for color grading, and then bringing it back into Premiere...for me, it’s kinda broken workflow that I wish things could be different.

Working with Lightroom LUTs is another issue... and again, creating, adjusting, or standardizing looks inside Premiere is not as simple as it is in Lightroom, and I don’t know why. I work with photography too, I develop a lot of color looks in Lightroom, and I wish in my dreams to grade the same color, same look into Premiere
This is something hard to understand… you guys are sons of the same mother, tools within the same ecosystem, why aren’t you guys talking??

Lightroom, Camera Raw, Photoshop, and Premiere, and Acrobat Reader, whtaever, you guys should be far more integrated. This lack of connection limits anyone working seriously with image and color.

Now, shifting to animated captions, this is where the gap becomes even more critical from a market perspective.

Since around 2020, with the rise of TikTok and short-form content, animated captions have become one of the main drivers of engagement and reels/shorts virality. This is no longer a niche feature. It’s a core part of modern content creation. And yet again... Premiere still doesn’t offer a native solution that comes close to what simpler tools are already doing.

Today, if I want to create dynamic captions, whether it’s karaoke-style timing or emphasis through changing fonts and styles, I have to leave Premiere and use tools like CapCut or VEED.io. That doesn’t make sense for a professional editing environment.

If I tried to build that kind of caption manually inside Premiere, a one-minute video could easily take 12 to 15 hours of work. In CapCut, I can drop the video in, and within 30 seconds, I have a fully styled, interactive caption system ready for Reels, TikTok, or Shorts.

This is not just about convenience. It’s about relevance. And customers demands that kind of captions.

Premiere is an extremely powerful tool for high-end productions, and that will always matter. But today there is a massive and growing demand for fast, high-impact short-form content, and Premiere is currently not aligned with that reality.

The titles panel still feels limited and disconnected from what actually drives engagement in today’s content landscape.

Because of that, Premiere is losing a segment of users who could be fully inside the ecosystem, but instead rely on external tools for something that has become essential.

Over time, you adapt to the current tools. But adapting is not the same as being efficient. What’s missing, in both color grading and captions, is ease of use, speed, and alignment with how content is actually being produced today.

I remain loyal to Premiere and intend to stay that way for a long time. But being completely honest, these two areas are the main reasons that make me consider other tools. And it’s not just me. There’s a growing community of editors and creators moving in that direction. I truly believe that if you bring a more intuitive, integrated, and modern approach to both color grading and animated captions, you won’t just solve long-standing pain points, you’ll also strengthen Premiere’s position as an industry standard in a market that is evolving very fast.

Anyway, I appreciate the opportunity to share this. This comes from someone who uses the tool every day and wants to keep using it, but would really like to see this evolution happen.

Hi Franis, I hope everything is well. As I mentioned, I'm happy with the constant evolution of Adobe Premiere and the user support. As a video editor in the wedding industry, I would really appreciate an improvement in the multi-camera synchronization tool. Doing this task when there is only one file in each track of the sequence is easy, but when there are several, with 6 in one track and 89 in another, 50 in another track, and also the audio track captured from the soundboard, the tool unfortunately doesn't succeed like programs that no longer exist, such as PluralEyes, which provided this support. I, and I believe many professionals who use Premiere, would be very happy with this improvement.Thank you and good luck.

Adobe Please:

It’s unbelievable that we still need so many improvements in the software, while Adobe continues releasing or focusing on 1990s-style transitions and effects like Channel Blur.

We would be much more satisfied with truly meaningful updates, such as improvements to captions in Premiere, more AI features, fewer crashes, and modern, 21st-century transitions.

We end up paying a lot for plugins and transition packs created by third parties because you simply aren’t doing anything about it.

Olá Francis muito bom saber que o Premiere é um softaware que escuta seus usuários, eu estou pra plataforma adobe há 10 anos e uso diariamente para trabalho de edição de casamentos, fico feliz que constantemente há atualização, resoluções de bugs e melhorias para nos usuários, que cada vez menos saímos do Premiere para fazer um ajustes, modificar algum arquivo fora do próprio programa.

tragam transições mais estilosas, essas parecem dos anos 90.

‘Feature Request: Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts for Effects and Presets’

Hello Adobe Premiere Development Team,

I am a video editor and I use Adobe Premiere Pro daily in my professional workflow. I would like to suggest a feature that would transform editing speed for the entire community: the ability to assign native keyboard shortcuts to specific effects and custom presets.

Currently, to apply functions like 'Warp Stabilizer', 'Nest', or our own saved effects, we have to navigate through several menus or use the mouse. While there are third-party plugins (like Excalibur) that attempt to solve this, I believe having this functionality natively within Premiere would bring unprecedented agility.

Being able to map the keyboard according to each editor's specific type of work (for example, a direct shortcut for a color or audio preset) would take the software to a new level of professional customization.

I hope you consider this implementation for future updates. Thank you for the great work on the platform.

Congratulations on the feature.
It’s always good to have new options like this to make the workflow easier. One suggestion I consider worthwhile is to analyze the possibility of making effects like this Blur, as well as the Noise Effect, have a fixed control window similar to DaVinci’s controls, instead of using a slider.

I also still think that, for a faster workflow, the process of going into the effects panel and dragging the effect onto the clip is unnecessary, since it adds extra steps.

I also liked the transitions, but the collection could be improved. What I still feel is that Premiere’s transitions are a bit cheesy, in a MovieMaker style. I recommend taking a look at Mister Horse effects for something more dynamic.

That’s it, thank you.