Welcome to Premiere Pro 25.5!

[Kevin-Monahan]

Welcome to Premiere Pro 25.5!

Try the Latest Version

Hello, and welcome to the September release of Adobe Premiere Pro! Premiere Pro 25.5 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 25.5 release features over 90 modern real-time transitions, effects, and animations, with GPU acceleration for real-time playback, and more. Update to Premiere Pro 25.5, available now. 😊

90+ modern, real-time effects and transitions

Elevate your edits with cinematic effects and modern transitions designed for pro editors. From glowing highlights to dynamic glitches, each effect is fully customizable and GPU-accelerated.

More information here.

New animation tools

 

Animating text, video, and graphics is now as fun and easy as dragging and dropping a transition.​

Faster, more precise editing

 

New dynamic audio waveforms make sound editing more intuitive and accurate. And under-the-hood improvements make timeline playback snappier.

 Listening to editors, improving every cut

Delivering quality-of-life upgrades, from smarter keyframing to better clip organization, based directly on the editor's feedback.

Additional Updates

• Sequence color tabs provide visual indicators for better organization.​
• Improvements to the Effect Controls panel make keyframing more predictable.​
• New preferences for default fonts for text and captions.​
• New keyboard commands to toggle track mute and solo based on targeting.
• Search for Adobe Stock media from the File menu. ​
• New support for 16-bit PNG images to support newer HDR finishing workflows that require high-bit-depth media.​
• Improved data range and color metadata handling for DNxHR, DNxHD, and PNG.​
• Completely rewritten support for MKV.

Fixed issues in 25.5

We have been working hard at making Premiere Pro even better. Here are the important fixes, performance improvements, and more.

Get help and provide feedback quicker

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Premiere Pro Beta

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

Resources

Complete documentation for Premiere Pro 25.5 features

New Features

Fixed Issues

Known issues

[ben_6960]

My software updated to the new version and now it will not transcribe audio.

I have tried putting at the source, putting it on a timeline and making it mono.

Each time it shows a status bar that it is starting to transcribe and stops almost immediately.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your message and welcome to the community. @Stan Jones, have you seen this one yet? I hope we can help you.

Thanks.
Kevin

[CourtneyNewman]

i have a one hour so far project on the previous version of premiere . If I update to the newest version. will it affect my project ?

[Scott.C.]

Love getting some of these new FX but none of them appear in After Effects so dynamic linking anything with one of the film impact effects becomes a little more complicated. Any plans on moving some of the effects in AE. A little shocked it wasn't there day one. 

[Jorge23096218y2sk]

Hi! Does this version work well with the new version of macOS 26? Has anyone updated? Thanks.

[defaultiekx62hn96eu]

Does not work well at all. macOS 26 tanked my premiere

[carlo_4974]

Been using Premiere Pro daily for editing short-form content, and each update like 25.5 adds those little refinements that quietly save hours. Curious to see if this version smooths out the timeline responsiveness during multicam edits.

I recently shared some hands-on tips and real-world workflow examples for fellow editors here: https://chickenpastill.com  might be helpful if you're diving into the new version too.

[Matias Melo]

I updated it in a project where I have about 30 edited videos, and it started giving me file import errors and frame errors in many videos from the image bank.

[GrandpaWisdom-369]

I just bought Adobe Premiere Pro. But it says I can't open it in my current app. How do I get it to download and use off of BING OR COPILOT?

[Lindsay5CDD]

The new “New Project” workflow is a major step backward. What used to be a simple, one-step process is now bloated with extra clicks and wasted time. It’s clunky, inefficient, and flat-out frustrating to use.

For the price you charge monthly, this kind of user-hostile redesign is honestly unacceptable. Please either restore the old streamlined dialog or give us a toggle. Forcing this change on your paying customers with no option to revert feels tone-deaf and dismissive of the people who rely on Premiere professionally.

[Lwrig]

Having all these new Film Impact transitions and effects is great, but there are some bugs/limitations. After an hour of frustration, it seems that unfortunately the Text Animator does not work if you need to use a stoke/shadow/background (in the properties panel) for your text. Super frustrating that I still have to go back into After Effects for something as simple at "social style" text it I want things to pop up word by word after this being so close to the perfect fix!

[AlienKid-56]

I'm in the UK, this update does not exist, does anyone else have this issue? I cannot update, it simply does not exist on my creative cloud app and am stuck on 25.4.1

[Sterphy]

Why did you change the colour management so that Dynamic Link makes the clips look completely different?  Why haven't you fixed the persistent bug where audio waveforms aren't properly shown?  Why haven't you fixed the persistent bug where the in and out points of audio are not shown in the source monitor? There's just so many problems and nobody seems to care. After Effects is way worse. 

Seriously, can SOMEONE have a word with their manager?  Maybe run the idea up the chain the pushing out apps of ever decreasing quality WILL lose you customers.  It's shocking to me 

[BibbidiBobbidiBob]

The bug with the in/out points in the source monitor is already fixed btw. Also there were some much needed improvements in the last versions in either of the products. 

[Sterphy]

Is this an Adobe employee? Go away

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[BibbidiBobbidiBob]

No, I just point out how you are not able to add anything productive here and complain about things that aren't even an issue anymore.

Why don't you just switch to another software?

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[Sterphy]

Why are you concerning yourself with my complaints to Adobe? You have to recognise this is strange behaviour.  I feel embarassed on your behalf. 

[BibbidiBobbidiBob]

Because your complaints are just outbursts without any substance. Or like I stated already: not productive. And such, what you add here, has no value. 

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[BibbidiBobbidiBob]

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[Sterphy]

Why are you so bothered? Get on with your day.

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[Sterphy]

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[Yacine_Alpha]

why is arabic language still not supported for audio transcription, in times of AI where so many other little third party apps can do it in all languages and dialects offering instant translations as well, or is there something that I should do about this  ?

[AdbeC]

Since using premiere pro 2022, every version update is crappy and just clunky in general. But I believe that Premiere pro 25.5 is the most stable version of Premiere Pro I've used in the past 3 years. Snappy UI,  effects like Luma Key and Gaussian Blur (Bloom effect) is now faster even on stacked layers ( pre-rendering is not needed as it used to).  The Sequence Label Coloring is very handy and intuitive. So far I haven't found a bug, all my plugins works too. Finished 3 Projects already without any error and it has been smoth in the last 10 days. I probably will stay on this version for atleast a few years to be safe. AdobeRocks!

[Sterphy]

Why praise Adobe for doing the bare minimum 

[AdbeC]

Sorry if you feel that way. But I think good deeds should be praise, plus the media intelligence search feature is a game changer. If you're having so much trouble with the new Update might as well buy a new hardware. People nowadays uses old machine from 2010's and complain alot about Adobe products. When you use a newer software you should pair it with a newer capable machine for bare minimum an octa-core machine with atleast 64gb ram and 8-12gb graphics, otherwise you won't enjoy their software, hope it helps.

[wedyan Alfa]

Please, add the arabic language with captions and a transcript. We can not use Ai avatar in adobe firefly , captions in Premiere . , plz do something