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

[TigerTheFrog]

No, I didn't see that, and I really appreciate the tip.  Thank you. 

But I still think it was faster before.   Getting to something in the Essential Graphics in a millisecond is faster than clicking around to uncollapse panels.   It's a small amount of time, but still an inconvenience.  I will learn in the future how much time it will take me to uncollapse panels on all my future projects over the coming decades.  

I say it again.  Adobe, please allow people to bring back the Essential Graphics Panel in their preferences.  Or ask users about what they think.  Because the comments I have seen online are not happy.  

I'm sure that Adobe could get rid of the Timeline too.  Even if with one or two clicks you could get most of the  features back... why? 

PS Adobe please don't get rid of the Timeline.  :  )

[headTrix Training]

I'm glad I was able to help! I do hate sometimes when they change things that you get used to, but it's also hard to please everybody like for me personally I never really liked the essential graphics panel. I thought it was cumbersome. I'm sure the timeline can never go away!

[Harvim]

Can the background color of the title bar and menu bar of Pr be unified with the color of the software UI interface, and use the same color in dark mode. Now when the interface is set to black, the background color of the title bar and menu bar is white, which looks very abrupt and uncomfortable.

[Carlos5C66]

I don't get it. Why does Adobe often, instead of improving things make them worse? For example, before we used to see the Premiere Pro version in the feature tab, now this info is nowhere; why? I had to search for it on Google to see what is the latest version, or go to the community page!

Also, the highlight color in the audio worksapce for any effect activated was blue now, from grey to WHITE? Why? It's not noticeable as before. Why you keep screwing things that work and are just right, then make them worse? 

One last thing, we repeatedly asked you to have the saved preference for metadata display in a dropdown list: icon, as in Avid (which they have since their inception). A very simple thing to do instead of right-clicking, then going to the saved preferences, then clicking ok.... Why do we have to go half the way around premiere when a simple dropdown list at the bottom of the project window would would be just right?

 Mod note: I had to correct your "all caps" yelling. Please don't type in all caps. Abide by our guidelines here.

[KV21A]

This new update has made my Premiere Pro app way way way more slow.

Mod note: Please don't type in all caps. Please don't yell.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Are you dual monitors on Windows? Is the scaling different on both monitors? Let us know.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Akobir31199606enkg]

If I have no doubt, updates should happen every 2 months, and the last one was in December, so the new version should come out in February, it's March and there is no update