Adobe Premiere desktop release notes

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

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, including rounded-corner control and constrained straight lines, all of which are editable both numerically and visually.
• 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.
• macOS Sonoma (version 14) is recommended for optimal performance starting with version 26.0.

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.