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Now in Beta: Effects in Properties Panel

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August 13, 2026
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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 Effects in the Properties Panel. We have spent countless meetings debating about twirls, Advanced modes, and reordering dots. This team of designers and engineers have been working tirelessly so that your relationship with effects feels smoother and easier than working with the ECP, while maintaining the powerful functionality.

We want your feedback! Please open up a project, dock the Properties Panel and ECP side by side and do a comparison. If you like filling out surveys, you can take the Properties Panel for a spin and then answer this: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/r3yq9Ytuy3. If you'd rather type to us right here, then we'd love your feedback on:

The basics: adding, rearranging, and changing the parameters of video and audio effects
Masking: assigning, reassigning, and how masks and their parameters display inside effect cards
Re-ordering effects: Does rendering order and the ability to change it feel intuitive?
Complex projects: If you are working with multi-channel audio, complex color adjustments, or a giant effects stack, let us know how it feels compared to the ECP
Does it pair well with the new color mode?
Applying and working with Source Effects

Known Issues:

While you can do everything that you used to do in the ECP, we don't have a visual timeline editor for keyframing in the Properties Panel. You can keyframe in the Properties Panel, but if you want to drag and drop keyframes in relation to one another, you need to do it in the ECP.
Windows has some performance issues. We are working on this.

Unassigned masks provide defaults for opacity and blur, as well as guidance to assign to a specific effect

Basic audio controls are in the Audio Effects section

What’s New

A tabbed panel structure: Video, Audio, Effects, Captions, Motion Graphics, and Info.
The new Effects tab is the core of this update - with Video Effects and Audio Effects sub-tabs, it's where the redesigned, card-based effect controls live, replacing the flat list style of the old Effect Controls panel. A Collapse All button allows you to switch between a detailed and macro level of your effects.
New UX: When dragging effects or masks in the Effects tab, all cards temporarily collapse for easier placement
Masking is now built into the Properties Panel. Masks show up as their own cards, nested inside the effect they're assigned to (or in an "Unassigned Masks" section at the top if they haven't been assigned yet). Drag a mask card onto an effect to assign it, or use the quick-action button to automatically turn it into an Opacity mask, a blurred mask or assign it to any effect on your clip.
Jumping off point for Color Mode: We want you to use the new Color Mode. For quick and simple Color changes you also have a Color section in the video tab. This way Color becomes a core workflow such as Transform or Crop. A quick action allows you to quickly get into Color Mode from the Properties panel.
More attention to Source effects. Not all video editors have discovered the power of source effects. Now they are more easily findable through the switch at the top of the Properties panel.
Auto hide header bar during scrolling to optimize real estate. You can turn this off by clicking on the hamburger menu next to “Properties” and selecting "Turn Autohide Header Off." A fast scroll up brings the top header back to switch tabs. (Available to Mac Users; Win users currently need to turn it on)
"Sticky" Effect Name headers let you scroll in the Properties panel without losing sight of which effect you are currently on.

Shebbe

Community Expert

I had some time to take a good look at the new system and while at first glance it seems like an improvement, the current state is quite a mess with severe conflicting logic. It is hard to understand what the design goal is because at this stage tons of duplication is happening but in each the mechanisms are functioning slightly differently and have different orders. Even if you view it from a perspective that the ‘legacy’ ECP will be removed later, there are still conflicting strategies here.

Main problem: Motion/Opct/Crop

Originally the objects are considered “effects” that cannot be removed from a clip. Now that they are part of the Properties panel's Video section they do not need to be treated as effects meaning they should not exist on the effects panel.
Naming conventions currently conflict because only Transform and Crop are present and separated in Video where ECP and Effects tab use Motion as compounded name including Anti-flicker Filter.

Functionality of implicit ‘effects’:

Motion, Opacity, Timeremapping can be disabled in ECP and FX tab. This functionality needs to be transfered to Video tab
Crop would be useful to have it's own toggle (become a separate effect)
Opacity is missing Blend Mode on the Video tab
Time remapping is completely missing.
Sliders could be present in the Video tab for easier tuning and visual feedback
Anti-flicker Filter is missing from Video tab

Justicfication of Video tab’s existence:

If the logic is that Motion/Opct/Remap should really be considered effects we’d really have to ask ourselves what to point is of Video tab's existence. If real-estate in the effects tab is always taken by the implicit effects why would you ever switch to the Video tab. If this data lives only on the Video tab only, the Effects tab has much more room to focus on exactly that: added effects.

The Effects tab:

I think the concept of a filter ‘stack’ going upwards is fine but it's conflicting with the logic of order of operations of the implicit effects. This would be solved if they are removed there. The second conflict is that the stack is top aligned suggesting that waterfall ordering is present. This would be solved by making the stack bottom-aligned which should be fine and clear when the motion stuff is removed from the panel.
It should be easier to add effects to a clip if Premiere implements a mechanism like Quick Apply from After Effects. The tab needs a “+” button that when clicked opens a searchbox from which fx can be added so you do not need to be in another panel on your screen to find it.
The Color Effect is a bit awkward. It will only exist in the Effects tab as soon as a parameter is tweaked much like how Lumetri Color worked. But many have asked for more control than the basic set because there is a big preference to use Sliders while editing over jumping to a completely new Color working space. Especially because many edit styles involve correcting a bunch of footage while editing rather than starting a grade after picture lock. This makes the Effects tab Color Effect superior because there you're allowed to switch to Advanced and make more adjustments although it's layout due to it's design in the Color mode is not very elegant.

Conclusion:

I'd love to see Video as it's own thing with all the motion properties separated in groups for which each can be toggled and have sliders the way they're presented in Effects. All motion related data removed from the Effects Panel. Effects ordering logic improved. Effects panel ease of use by adding an ‘add’ button with Quick Apply style search for effects.

Shebbe

Community Expert

This looks very interesting. I do hope the ultimatum is to deprecate ECP and provide a new environment that can do all ECP does but better and more. For keyframing I hope a more usable professional environment will be built that doesn't graph everything in-line with the properties but can rather be it’s own contained panel where you can show all available or filter by selected or by keyframed and see only those params so you can have multiple properties from various places all stacked together making adjusting timings and curves much faster and intuitive.

Nothing to say yet on the current implementation, need some time to update and go through it but it seems to head in a good direction.

TeresaDemel

Author

Community Manager

Would you like that experience as another layer in the timeline, so that it lines up with your timeline indicator? Or do you imagine it in a different place?

Shebbe

Community Expert

A good question. I think having both would work well, unless one is so well implemented that it makes the other option redundant/unnecessary.

The challenge with ‘merging’ it in the main timeline is that it’s usage disrupts the zoom state of your edit if you can’t revert back instantaneously. In DAWs like Ableton Live you press A and it opens all automation lanes that you’ve made visible. If there are multiple on a single track, you as a user can ‘promote’ them to their own track below. When you do not need to change automation anymore you press A again and all folds back into the main tracks. There is potential for video edit workflows to have similar behavior I guess.

The benefit of a dedicated curve editor panel is that it allows much more freedom in how you present the data and tools you want to provide specific to that panel because it doesn’t need to be 100% integrated with the already established UI components. Such a panel will likely be given more vertical space too compared to how users scale the timeline panel in their workspace which is important for curve editing.

I’d say having at least a dedicated curve editor that allows for advanced and fine control is a good thing. If you have to jam a lot of functionality and control into an integrated part of the main edit timeline you may run into design issues/limitations.

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rafaelsouzams

Participant

Once that's ready, it would be interesting to replace the Effect Controls panel with one that's more optimized for keyframes and offers more precise and easier-to-create velocity curves, like in After Effects!

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Piotr Gardecki

Inspiring

Really interesting update :)

this new Properties Panel in Premiere Pro might actually save us a lot of frustration when navigating effect settings. I’m definitely going to keep using it and testing it.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

After almost 25 years of using Premiere this new stacking order will get some getting used to.

As for the video tab one can twirl up Crop, Please make is so in the Effects tab. It takes up a lot of (unnecessary) space.

The properties panel takes up a lot of more horizontal room than the ECP which means a lot of scrolling.

Do we need the anti-flicker filter?

Can we have: press the twirl up/down icon while holding down ALT to close all effects in one go, like in the ECP?

At first glance I like it but have to play around a bit more.

PS

I do think the “title” e.g. the word Motion, Opacity, Tint, etc should be more bold in order to navigate faster as for the ECP has all the properties for an effect indent?

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Piotr Gardecki

Inspiring

One thing I really like about is that you can see everything at once. The readability is much better, and together with the Effect Controls Panel it feels like a productive duo.

Main problem: Motion/Opct/Crop

Functionality of implicit ‘effects’:

Justicfication of Video tab’s existence:

The Effects tab:

Conclusion:

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