Adobe Premiere desktop release notes

Find out about the latest updates, new features, and bug fixes in recent Premiere desktop releases.

April 2026 (version 26.2)

Feature updates

• Mute all audio in your sequence at once with Global Mute, without affecting clip or track settings.
• Quickly locate markers with enhanced search by name, comment, or color, and jump directly to their positions in your clip or sequence.
• Use Export Settings to apply Content Credentials to your exported videos, including details like linked social media accounts and generative AI usage preferences.
• View and navigate complex sequences easily with the new Sequence Index panel, featuring a searchable, spreadsheet-style layout.
• Refine mask edges with new edge quality controls in Object Masking. Choose between Sharp and Smooth modes to better match your subject and footage.
• Source Monitor now displays audio waveforms alongside video playback, helping you identify audio cues, refine edits, and review clips efficiently.
• Explore a new set of Film Impact–powered effects and transitions, including Channel Blur, Gradient, and Noise effects, along with dynamic 3D Spinback and Slide transitions for enhanced compositing, texture, and motion design.
• Improve your workflow by enabling tailored color adjustments for accessibility and personal preference in Color mode.
• Timeline preference that allows users to show or hide audio clip channel labels directly from the Timeline wrench [icon] icon-pr-wrench menu.
• Set the exact resolution you need when Auto Reframing your sequence.
• The Film Impact dashboard and effects are now localized in the same 10 languages as Premiere, opening them up to a broader audience.
• Quickly create a spanned marker of a specified duration without first creating a marker, making it spanned, and dragging it out.

Fixed issue

• Project Index (.prin) files were not automatically saved when performing a Save As on the project.
• Splitting a caption could result in a duplicate caption rather than the caption being correctly split.
• The cross [icon] icon-cc-crossmark button to clear a search in the Search panel could disappear after a Find Similar Frames search.
• Maximizing the Text panel with a long transcription could cause the highlighted words to lose focus and scroll to a random section.
• Opening a transcript segment with the Pen tool could sometimes cut off some text lines in text correction mode.
• Morph Cut could crash while adjusting media In or Out points during analysis.
• Program Monitor could play back with black or color-shifted frames on Windows ARM systems with some effects applied.
• Exports to ProRes 4444 with alpha could fail with a GPU acceleration error when certain effects were applied over text or graphic layers.
• Generating a transcript on some newer macOS computers could produce incorrect results, with spoken dialogue omitted or replaced with incorrect words.
• Previously saved Label Color Presets may not appear in the Labels preferences dropdown menu.
• Spell check could fail to underline misspelled words.
• Selecting the option to change the output destination when exporting markers and then cancelling could cause the option to be displayed as a drop-down menu.
• The Default Cloud Media download path has been changed to a common location (~/Documents/Adobe), but preferences need to be manually reset to see this change.
• The size and position of the timecode overlay displayed when trimming have been updated and should now match the Metadata & Timecode Burn-in effect.
• Marker exports to comma-separated CSV format did not use commas as separators.
• Using a shortcut to toggle the Direct Manipulation option in the Program Monitor could cause the application to crash.
• Source Monitor did not show the updated clip name after renaming a clip.
• Custom shortcuts assigned to tools did not appear in tool tips in the Tools panel.
• When processing-intensive third-party plug-ins are used, the application could hang or crash on quit.
• Using Restore Unrendered for render and replaced media could fail under some circumstances when the Render and Replace location was set to Next to Original Media.
• The Paste Insert To Target Track command could fail if the project is closed and reopened.
• When the Link Media or Media Browser dialog was moved to a display with a different resolution, blank space could appear when the dialog was reopened.
• Autosave files could get saved to the wrong destination when two or more projects were open from different parent folder locations.
• Option + Left or Right arrow did not move the cursor by word when renaming items in the Project panel or bins in macOS.
• The Open Folder button in the marker export dialog did not open the correct directory for some file types.
• Changing volume levels in the Essential Sound panel while previewing audio with Timeline Sync enabled changed audio levels in the sequence as well.
• When tracking a mask that was applied to a trimmed clip with Speed: Reverse enabled, the tracking could fail to track the entire displayed clip range.
• The Status and Offline Properties Metadata columns were updated properly when a Gen-Extended clip was taken offline, but the matching Metadata panel values were not.
• Type setting for a 608/708 caption segment could revert after deselecting and re-selecting the segment.
• When creating a Bezier mask control point with the Alt or Option modifier, releasing the modifier during the drag could cause the control point to move.
• Object masks applied to a multi-camera clip could display improperly when viewing in the Source Monitor.
• Keyframe would revert to linear interpolation once a value was changed.
• Shapes with the same numerical values for Position, Anchor Point, Width, and Height might not align correctly.
• The Direct Manipulation menu in the Program Monitor could improperly show when Show Transport Controls were disabled.
• The aspect ratio of some H.264 files was not displayed correctly when using the Japanese language Premiere.
• Older projects with RED R3D media could display black frames in the Program Monitor and Source Monitor.
• Some M2V files could fail to import correctly.
• Spanned media recorded with the Canon XF705 could fail to import correctly.
• The aspect ratio could incorrectly be set at 1.0075 for some H.264 files.
• Smart Rendering of ProRes 422 files recorded on an iPhone 16 Pro using the Blackmagic Camera app could result in upside-down video due to embedded rotation metadata.
• Scrubbing some XAVC HS MP4 files could be slow.
• Applying Scene Edit Detection to some media files could cause playback to become unresponsive.
• Some 4:4:4 HEVC MP4 files could incorrectly be displayed as 4:2:0 in Media Properties.
• Dragging the slider in the Comparison View of the Lumetri panel failed to update the reference frame display.
• Customers using Premiere Productions could have seen duplicate ID errors when no duplicate ID actually existed.
• With language set to German, the Presets (Vorgaben) folder in the effects panel did not appear.
• Media imported via Import mode was incorrectly recorded as UNC paths instead of mapped drive letters. This caused performance issues when reopening the project and media offline issues in other applications when using AAF, EDL, and XML.
• In the Project panel's Icon View, keyboard navigation via Enter or Tab was inconsistent and broken.

March 2026 (version 26.0.2)

Fixed issue

• When exporting a sequence through Adobe Media Encoder, a Missing Mask Data warning could appear, and object mask data may not be included in the exported media.

February 2026 (version 26.0.1)

Fixed issue

• The Premiere installation could ignore the default install language setting in Creative Cloud desktop, resulting in English-language-only access.

January 2026 (version 26.0)

Feature updates

• Send media from Adobe Firefly Boards straight to Premiere on desktop for a smoother creative workflow.
• Create and adjust video transitions directly on clips using intuitive handles for faster, more visual editing.
• The Object Mask tool uses AI to automatically identify objects and people in your footage. With a single click, you can select and isolate an object, then track it throughout your shot.
• Redesigned Rectangle, Ellipse, and Pen mask tools make it easier to draw and refine masks with greater precision.
• Thumbnail generation is now GPU-accelerated, delivering faster performance and more accurate, color-managed thumbnails that better match your graded clips.
• Premiere now supports importing and exporting OpenTimelineIO (OTIO) projects, enabling more accurate and flexible interchange of editorial timelines across tools and pipelines.
• Support for importing the new R3D NE format, enabling smoother workflows with single-file RED clips and enhanced audio and metadata support.

System updates

• Premiere now runs natively on Windows on ARM (ARM64), delivering improved performance and responsiveness.
• Starting with version 26.0, macOS Sonoma (version 14) is the minimum requirement.

Fixed issues

• For some customers, opening the Stock panel could cause a hang in UXP-based panels such as the Text, Import, and Export panels.
• UXP did not have the equivalent of ExtendScript's ability to get the frame rate of a sequence.
• The Search panel Filters dialog box would not allow saving after all filters had been cleared.
• In a transcript, if a manual text selection was done within a text search range, the text selection highlight was hidden under the text search highlight.
• The Direct Manipulation toggle would disable itself after navigating across clips when using Go To Next or Previous Edit Point keyboard shortcuts.
• The custom UI for third-party transitions could fail to display in the Program Monitor.
• Some customers could get Windows permissions errors when saving a project.
• ExtendScript was unavailable.
• Using draggable hot-text controls could cause other UI elements to activate during a mouse-up gesture.
• On macOS, selecting the Help link in the Preferences panel could lead to a crash if the network was unavailable.
• Proxies could lag during high-speed scrubbing the first time they were viewed on project open.
• Uploads to Behance could fail.
• Setting the Default Media Scaling option in the Media preferences to Fit to Frame did not scale the media.
• While entering text, it was not possible to add a second stroke to the text. Text had to be entered and then modified.
• The Direct Manipulation menu in the Program Monitor could improperly show as Enabled when switching between Display Modes.
• Some customers could experience a crash when using Direct Manipulation in the Program Monitor.
• The appearance of the Set Scale Lock   icon in the Properties panel could be incorrect.
• For some scripts, including Arabic, Sinhala, and Tamil, selecting parts of the text did not detect glyph boundaries correctly, leading to wrong selections.
• Playback of some ARRIRAW HDE files could display black frames and incorrect durations.
• Crashes could occur when playing hardware-accelerated QuickTime video.
• When using IPP2 mode with R3D media, Chromatic Noise Reduction was improperly labeled as Denoise, and D.E.B. was incorrectly available.
• A crash during startup could occur when certain third-party codecs were installed on the computer.
• On some MP4 files, the incorrect frame was displayed as the first frame of the video.
• The Synchronize feature could be unexpectedly slow or appear to hang.
• Using proxies with a different frame rate than the original VFR (Variable Frame Rate) source media could cause poor playback performance.
• Incorrect chroma subsampling information was displayed in the Properties panel for HEVC 8-bit 4:2:2 media.
• For some R3D media, default values for Color Space and Gamma Curve were applied, instead of Premiere reading the values in the media metadata.
• Applying a LUT with a non-English name would display incorrect characters in RED Source Settings.
• The Color Space and Gamma Curve settings would appear twice in RED Source Settings when set to the Legacy mode.
• In Windows > Extensions > Film Impact Dashboard, the Apply button did not show a depressed state when clicked, making it harder to see if the action was started.
• In Windows > Extensions > Film Impact Dashboard, applying a transition did not give a warning when two adjoining clips had no overlapping media.
• In Lumetri Color > Edit > Basic Correction > Input LUT, it was not possible to browse and select a LUT if Auto-Refresh Input LUT/Look was enabled from the Lumetri panel menu.
• Re-linking of MXF files could take longer than expected.
• On Windows, the clip outline, snap function, or playhead were not visible when dragging clips in the timeline if GPU-accelerated UI rendering was disabled.
• When using the Loudness Normalization effect during export, all streams were being loudness-normalized, regardless of the Process checkbox setting.
• A clip's keyframe line could disappear after adding a frame hold.
• The mouse pointer could disappear when adjusting submix keyframes if the number of submix tracks exceeded the number of standard audio tracks.