Welcome to Premiere Pro 25.1!

[Kevin-Monahan]

Welcome to Premiere Pro 25.1!

Try the Latest Version

Hello, and welcome to the December release of Adobe Premiere Pro! Premiere Pro 25.1 is now available from the Creative Cloud desktop app and is recommended for all users. 

If you are experiencing any issues, please create a new post explaining your problem so we can help. If you have a bug to report or have any complaints, please do so on the Bugs forum.

Learn about best practices for updating Premiere Pro.

New features 

The 25.1 release of Premiere Pro features a modern, rounded design for Timeline clips and more. It's the perfect time to update.😊

Rounded corner design for Timeline clips

Premiere Pro now features a fresh, new design for Timeline clips that’s modern, consistent, and easier to look at all day long.

Premiere Pro now features a fresh, new design for Timeline clips that’s easier to look at all day long, requires less cognitive load to parse and understand, makes it easier to see the boundaries between clips, and is just plain friendlier.

The new design has a friendlier appearance, is visually comfortable for prolonged viewing, and deman...

Enhanced H.264 performance on Apple silicon computers and Windows

 

Completely rewritten support for H.264 in MP4 and MOV provides up to a 4x increase in performance on Apple silicon computers and up to a 2x increase in performance on Windows computers.

Fixed issues in 25.1

Audio:

• The audio was not imported for MXF files with 32-bit audio.
• The Progress panel sometimes showed duplicated "Enhancing Speech" processes.
• Newly created Audio Tracks did not respect the Solo state of other tracks.
• Attributes would not be correctly pasted across all audio channels of a clip on the timeline.
• Clicking on a clip badge to open the Effect Controls or Essential Sound panels would open the panels on the mouse down.
• Premiere Pro would sometimes crash when disabling Enhance Speech during processing on nested sequences

Captions and transcriptions:

• When importing a custom caption preset which was previously saved with a certain style, the "Style" option could erroneously be reset to "None".
• Undoing a merge of multiple captions segments would not select all segments.

Editing:

• The Time Ruler Numbers option for Timeline was disabled, and the shortcut did not work.
• Some EDLs would fail to import.
• The Progress Sheet was not docked with other panels when opened from the Windows menu.
• Premiere Pro would hang when exporting some projects to XML.
• Get Media File Properties for > Selection was disabled for Timeline clips.
• Option or Alt + mouse wheel would not zoom the Timeline based on the cursor location.
• Scaling below 50% of a still image in a timeline, when played in non-high quality, half or quarter resolution, could cause the image position to shift.

Effects: 

• Applying Morph Cut via an Adjustment Layer could cause a crash.
• Crash observed when opening Old Premiere Pro (22.x) project containing Morph Cut effect.
• Some projects using the Morph Cut transition could crash when using the GPU-accelerated renderer.

Formats:

• Observed artifacts during reverse playback of AVC Long GOP MXF media.
• [Regression 24.4] Adaptive bit rate presets (High/Medium/low) under the video setting were showing the same bit rate during Export.
• Disabling the hardware-accelerated decode preference did not work for ProRes media—playback would still use hardware acceleration with this option disabled.

Team Projects:

• Read-only sequences from Media Browser allowed changes to be made.

Text-Based Editing:

• Clip markers could sometimes not show or be added to audio-only clips in the Transcript tab of the Text panel.
• With a project set to Read Only, it could be possible to drag markers in the Text panel's Transcript.
• Importing a corrected transcript could result in a timecode mismatch.
• When working with English transcripts, the first word of a sentence could erroneously start with a lowercase letter.

Premiere Pro Beta

Check out the latest features and discussions about Premiere Pro Beta in the forums here.

Resources

Complete documentation for Premiere Pro 25.1 features

New Features

Fixed Issues

Known issues

[Nick Gioia]

The enhancement on the H.264 performance is awesome!

[headTrix Training]

Happy new year, Kevin! Looking forward to checking out the new updates! I noticed enhanced speech, doesn't always work even on export the volume can go up and down, and it can sometimes sound good and sometimes sound very robotic. And what's happening with Gen AI for video in Adobe Premiere? 

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hey Mark,

Thanks for the comment. Feel free to file a bug with a sample source file and screenshots of your settings. I hope the team can sort that out for you. I am not using the effect in Premiere Pro, preferring still for the browser based version on the podcast web app for now. Run a test and see if you can get a better result. The effect could use some improvement on device to reach par that the browser app is giving us, and we'd need to file a bug for that, as well. Some have suggested a "send to podcast ai" feature should be offered in the app, and I would certainly advocate for that feature.

Gen AI in Premiere Pro is an exciting area for editors with the release of Generative Extend already in Beta. I would look to Beta and the Beta forums for all the latest announcements.

I appreciate your comments.

Thanks!
Kevin

[Derrick24144872x7wd]

I cancelled my Adobe subscription several months ago because I purchased a new Microsoft Surface that came with the Snapdragon X processor, but Adobe Premiere Pro was not compatible. Does version 25.1 resolve this noncompliance? Last update was Oct 2024: Do Adobe apps work on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs?

[Kevin-Monahan]

Here is the page indicating support and conditions for the hardware, @Derrick24144872x7wd: https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/windows-arm-support.html. Our hardware forum is a good place for such questions. Sorry you are leaving the subscription behind, but do let us know if you need anything in the future.

Thanks,

Kevin

[Derrick24144872x7wd]

Yes, I'm aware of that website. But that does not answer my question. Sad thing is, that is the only thing keeping me from renewing my subscription, yet I can't get a straight answer from anyone...

[Kevin-Monahan]

Yes, sorry. It does run on that CPU, as does Media Encoder. I don't think After Effects is working just yet with Snapdragon. I hope that helps answer your question.

Thanks,
Kevin

[www.santanu.biz]

Adobe should rapidly focus more on wish list of the comunity rather than cosmetic beautification of the products to remain relevant among the competition. You stand against your competition not by bug fixes and cosmetics but by giving new tools to the community that keep them ahead in time.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi,

Thanks for the message.

Adobe should...

This is the wrong location for any request. Please create an Idea on the Ideas forum.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Alisonbounce]

Happy to discover these updates. The new timeline look is very modern. Thank you for also fixing all those errors; it's much smoother now.

[chanaart]

Thank you! Great update!!!

[Artem_Skorozinsky]

Dear Adobe Team,

I am writing on behalf of many Ukrainian content creators who use your products daily, particularly Premiere Pro, to produce high-quality content.

I would like to bring to your attention that, for more than two years now, Ukraine has been enduring a full-scale war initiated by Russia. During this challenging time, Ukrainian creators have been working tirelessly to produce videos that inform the world about our struggle, culture, and identity. However, your software still does not support the Ukrainian language, despite its importance to over 40 million people.

While Premiere Pro supports the Russian language, it continues to lack Ukrainian support. This forces Ukrainian content creators to spend a significant amount of time manually transcribing videos and texts, slowing down their workflows and adding unnecessary hurdles to their creative processes.

Ukraine has a vast audience of Adobe users who deeply appreciate your products. However, the absence of Ukrainian language support puts us at a disadvantage, especially at a time when our language plays a critical role in our fight for freedom and independence.

We kindly request that you add Ukrainian language support to Premiere Pro, particularly for features like auto-transcription and text recognition. This would be a significant step toward supporting the Ukrainian community that relies on your tools for their creative work.

Thank you for your understanding and support. We believe that Adobe, as a leader in creative solutions, will consider this request and contribute to preserving and promoting Ukrainian culture!

WE NNED YOUR SUPPORT!

[Kevin-Monahan]

Please upvote one of the requests in the Ideas forum, which is viewed by the product team. If you are having trouble with searching posts there, let me know. The Discussions forum, here, is purely user-to-user (and me), so "Dear Adobe" letters will go unread. Sorry about that.

Cheers,

Kevin

[RP8806]

What year can we expet a revamp for Multicams? Final Cut surpassed us a long time ago...

[Awgodhelpme]

I can't use this new version on my computer and you've revoked all previous versions that would be compatible. ADOBE SUX.

[TigerTheFrog]

Hi,

Please consider bringing back the Essential Graphics Panel.  You could make it an option in Preferences, and those who want it could have it back.

The Properties Panel creates extra work for me and takes time in my workflow.  If you look online, in YouTube comments and other places, you'll see that many other people feel the same way. It seems like the program is suddenly worse for no apparent reason.

As The Properties Panel doesn't have all the needed features of Essential Graphics, you need to click on something and move to another panel.  Two extra steps.  And when you get to the other panel it’s different, and in my opinion, worse. For example, you have moved the alignment controls from the top to the bottom. As I use those two numbers constantly in my edits, I now have to scroll down every time. There are other things. 

Once I finish my current edit, I will go back to 2024.  I hope it won’t have to be forever. That seems unfair to me because I appreciate all the new features you provide with updates—not to mention I'm paying for them through my Creative Cloud membership. Worse, maybe you’ll stop supporting 2024 someday. 

I do love Premiere Pro, and I have liked every improvement you have made. But please allow people with workflows like mine to choose what works best for them. This is a big deal for me, and that’s why I’m going back to 2024.

Thank you for your consideration.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hello @TigerTheFrog,

Consider making feature requests like these on our Ideas forum. That one is staffed by devs. This is the Discussions forum and it's purely user-to-user. Any notes to "Adobe" might not be read.

Cheers,
Kevin

[TigerTheFrog]

Thanks!

[UgoSias]

Hi, Thanks for all your work ! The 25.1 Upgrade seems to reveal a problem with both AAF and OMF exports to ProTools or Audition on Mac OS. With AAFs, the export seems to have no file (only one little file unaudible). And With OMFs, the export contains only the first sound of the first clip, which is repeated on any clips on the timeline. The only solution is to export with a windows version of Premiere 25.1. Is this problem known of your services ? Can it be fixed ? Thanks in advance for the anwser !

[Chad32661899rv7t]

Thanks for the updates to the H.264 encoding and support! I will say, I don't know how I feel about the rounded corners but nonetheless, appreciate the update!

[Christine Steele]

Kudos to the Adobe team for offering even better performance for H264. I'm also experiencing better performance for even more natively suppported codecs = Yay! I don't see this listed as an official "new feature" but I swear I'm now getting native performance for some Sony Camera footage that performs almost as well as native R3D (when dropped raw into a sequence)! I get so excited when new camera formats are added to natively supported codec list (Nerd alert, haha)! The list hasn't been updated for a little while, but some of us "try it in the timeline" before transcoding anyway and I'm stoked to repoert I rarely need to use Proxy workflows anymore. BTW -- I'm still not seing a fix for the issue that disables 4-point editing feature (Fit to Fill dialogue to ignore out/in point) when auto-transcription is enabled. Thanks for the update notice Kevin : )

[佑23128759dt6z]

Dear Adobe Premiere Pro Team,

I hope this email finds you well. I am a professional video editor who frequently works with captions and graphics in Adobe Premiere Pro. Since updating to the 2025 version, I have encountered significant workflow inefficiencies due to changes in the Captions and Graphics panel, particularly when adjusting text properties such as font, size, and color.

In the 2024 version, the layout of the Properties panel was more intuitive and allowed for faster access to essential text adjustments. However, in the 2025 version, the reorganization of these settings has disrupted my editing efficiency. Specifically, the new order of properties (e.g., Linked Style appearing above Text) has made frequent modifications cumbersome.

I kindly request that Adobe consider providing an option to restore the 2024 text panel layout or allow users to customize the order of text-related properties within the Properties panel. This would greatly benefit professionals like me who rely on a streamlined workflow for efficient video editing.

I appreciate Adobe’s continuous efforts to improve Premiere Pro, and I believe that allowing users more control over the UI layout would enhance usability without disrupting existing workflows.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this feedback. I look forward to your response.

Best regards,

[TigerTheFrog]

I agree with this.

In the Essential Graphics Panel the alignment controls were at the top where you could reach them in an instant.  In the Properties Panel all your users must scroll down.  It's not just for text--it's for all objects and graphics too.  This will add millions of hours to the Premiere community's workflow over time.  Every single editing project done in Premiere from now on will take at least a few minutes longer.

It would seem like an easy change that would please everybody.  If that is impossible. please consider letting people choose in Preferences to bring back the Essential Graphics Panel.  

[headTrix Training]

I have the latest update 25.1?, but I don't really see that issue. You know those panels are all collapsible just click and they collapse and close were open the alignment panel pretty close.