Adobe Premiere desktop release notes

November 2026 (version 27.0)

Feature updates

• Move from edit to color without breaking your flow. Color Mode is a new color grading workspace in Premiere, built for editors and right next to your edit.
• Get AI help with complex or repetitive tasks using the new AI Assistant panel, which understands your Premiere project and helps you complete them.
  
• Generate images from text prompts directly on the Premiere timeline using Generate Image in the Generative Media Tool.
• Sync generated sound effects to your video with the new Sync to Video button in the Generate Sound Effects panel, part of the Generative Media Tool.
• Create original, royalty-free music from a text prompt, right on the Premiere timeline, with Generate Music.
• Analyze your video and create matching ambiance and sound-effect layers on the timeline using Generate Soundscape.
• Get improved controls and an updated experience when using Enhance Audio to improve the clarity and quality of dialogue.
• Automatically detect and separate two overlapping speakers recorded on a single mixed audio track into individually routable timeline stems with Separate Crosstalk, powered by the Adobe Firefly audio service.
• Keep audio mixes balanced as you edit. Auto Ducking now updates keyframes automatically as you add, trim, or mute clips, so there’s no need to select Generate Keyframes after every edit.
• Find and preview the right effect faster. The Effects panel now has thumbnail images and preview videos for all the video effects and transitions, and improved search. Preview from source lets you see how a video effect will look on your footage.
• AI/ML features such as Enhance Audio, Enhance Speech, Scene Edit Detection, and Auto Reframe now run faster on Windows computers with NVIDIA RTX GPUs.
• Create more looks with eight new effects, including Bevel Alpha, Bevel & Emboss, Posterize, Radial Blur, and Zoom Blur, for enhanced compositing, texture, and motion design.
• Adjust effects faster. Video effects, audio effects, and masks now appear as easy-to-read cards in the Properties panel, a simpler alternative to the Effect Controls panel.
• Target colors precisely with HSL Masking, which isolates colors by hue, saturation, and luminance and works alongside other masks, so adjustments affect only the area you choose. It works well in Color mode.
• Create cleaner, more reliable Object Masks with improved tracking, smaller file sizes, and easier mask file management and recovery.
• Create the extra frames your transitions need. When a transition needs more frames than a clip has, Generative Extend can now create the missing frames for you.
• See audio waveforms drawn on the timeline in real time while you record with the Audio Track Mixer or Voice-Over.
• Show iXML metadata on audio clips in the timeline and in the Source Monitor.
• Adjust clip speed and duration with a redesigned dialog featuring multiple audio stretching modes, high-quality processing, and pitch controls to preserve natural-sounding audio, without the need to round-trip to Audition.
• Get native support for Windows on ARM (ARM64) on PCs powered by the NVIDIA RTX Spark (N1X) chip. It also uses NVIDIA’s TensorRT, which accelerates on-device AI features such as Object Mask, Enhance Speech, and Scene Edit Detection.
• Turn off Live Ripple Edit with a new Timeline preference, so ripple trims update only after you release the mouse.
• Support for Sony FX5 X-OCN formats, including LT, C1, and C2.
• Premiere now requires a minimum amount of GPU memory. Computers that don't meet it can no longer launch Premiere, and a System Compatibility Report explains why.
• Object Masking, Scene Edit Detection, Auto Reframe, and Enhance Audio now use NVIDIA RTX acceleration on Windows on ARM.
• NVIDIA hardware decoding is now supported for H.264 and HEVC files in MXF on Windows on ARM.
• Support for raw video formats on Windows on ARM has been updated. The following formats are supported, including hardware acceleration: ARRI ARRIRAW and ARRICORE, Canon Cinema RAW Light, RED R3D and R3D NE, and Nikon N-RAW.
• ARRIRAW and ARRICORE footage from the ARRI ALEXA 35 Xtreme is now supported natively on Windows on ARM.
• Support for importing Sony RAW and Sony 16-bit linear F65 RAW footage has been removed.

Fixed issues

Text-Based Editing, Captions, and Text

• Pressing Spacebar to start playback while the Text panel had focus could move focus to the Timeline, preventing words in the Transcript tab from being navigated or edited with the arrow and Return keys.
• Exporting captions with multiple text blocks as CSV or TXT could omit the text of additional blocks and produce incorrect column headers.
• Projects with large amounts of transcript data could take a long time to open.
• When importing .stl captions, "$" could display incorrectly.
• Some multi-line captions could lose their final line when exported to EBU STL format.
• Captions could be mispositioned in exported EBU STL files, with extra line spacing added to two-line captions.
• The PingFang TrueType font did not render on macOS.
• Some ornament and color fonts did not display a sample in the font popup.
• Search Similar Frames did not work on timeline clips loaded into the Source Monitor by double-clicking.

Productions and Collaboration

• For Productions stored on network-attached storage, projects could fail to save on the first attempt when multiple collaborators were working in the Production at the same time.
• For Productions stored on network-attached storage, moving or renaming projects in the Production panel was inconsistent when multiple collaborators were working in the Production at the same time.
• Scanning the projects in a Production could be slow immediately after opening the Production.
• A project deleted in the Production panel could still be opened from the trash folder with the keyboard shortcut Cmd/Ctrl + O.
• The Production panel could become unresponsive while updating file metadata after files were moved.
• Changing the collaboration user name preference while a project in a Production was open caused a save error.
• The Project panel did not always open when a project was opened directly from within a Production.
• Production Settings was selectable for regular projects outside of a Production when the Production panel was selected.
• Choosing Production from the Window menu could minimize Premiere instead of opening the Production panel.
• Premiere could crash in Team Projects when several audio submix tracks were created and the project was reloaded.
• Improved the wording of the message shown when a project in a Production is locked for editing.

Generative Media Tool

• The live sampling preview in the Generative Media tool did not display correctly.
• Reference images added from Your device in the Generative Media tool were not imported into the Image References bin on generation.
• When a different reference frame was chosen in the Generative Media tool, the new frame was not used and the previous frame was used instead.
• When hovering over a reference frame thumbnail in the Generative Media tool, the preview was blank.
• Reference frame data was not populated for Generative History web assets.
• The Generative Media tool could draw in the wrong location on Windows.
• The Generative Media tool did not always dismiss correctly when generating sound effects.
• Generative media placeholders could remain in a sequence when a generation was canceled because of insufficient credits.
• After creating a video-only clip with the Generative Media tool, enabling audio and regenerating could cause issues.
• The model selection menu in the Generative Media tool could remain open and block other apps when Premiere was not the frontmost application.
• The file name of a recorded audio guide on a generated sound effect clip was not displayed when hovering over the waveform in the Generative Media tool.
• A Generative Media tool range selection could be made on unsupported track types, such as 5.1 tracks.
• Project Manager > Collect Files and Copy to New Location did not copy files for clips extended with Generative Extend from the Adobe Premiere Captured and Generated folder.
• On some Macs, the user icon in the header bar could disappear after exiting full-screen mode, preventing access to Generative AI token balance information.
• Improved warnings in the Generative Media tool.
• Improved how range selection in the Generative Media tool interacts with clips when using Extract edit.

Effects, Masks, and Playback Resolution

• Scaled media could appear stretched, squished, or incorrectly positioned when previewing or exporting at reduced playback resolution.
• With Playback Resolution set below Full, masked effects applied to scaled clips could render improperly during playback or skimming.
• Values adjusted in the Effect Controls panel with the Up and Down arrow keys were not retained.
• Moving selected mask control points with Shift was constrained to 90 degrees instead of 45 degrees.
• Direct Manipulation controls appeared in the Program Monitor only when guides were enabled.
• Double-clicking a video and audio clip in the Program Monitor selected only the video in the Timeline.
• When a Lumetri preset thumbnail was dragged from the Effects panel onto the same clip repeatedly, Premiere could fail.
• A custom bin created inside the Presets bin in the Effects panel could not be deleted.
• Trimming the end of a rendered clip with a Film Impact effect applied unlinked the rendered preview.
• A duplicate line was drawn between content views in the Timeline, such as between captions and video, making the divider look thicker than intended.
• The Video Scopes panel could display incorrect scopes after media or the project was closed.
• Changing the Media Replacement timecode display format of a Motion Graphics template in the Properties panel changed the sequence timecode display format and did not update the embedded sequence.
• Metadata from input media could be lost on export when the media replaced a placeholder in a Motion Graphics template.
• After Render and Replace, the usage count of the original media in the Project panel did not update until the project was closed and reopened.

Media, Formats, and Playback

• Stuttering playback could occur with 4K 59.94 DNxHR MXF media accessed over SMB network storage.
• Stuttering playback could occur when accessing media files across some network configurations.
• Exported MP3 files could include several seconds of silence at the end.
• The first frames of some .mpeg and .m2t files could appear corrupted during playback on macOS.
• Growing files in the MOV container were imported as audio only.
• Audio could stop playing for some long-duration MXF files, such as XDCAM or growing files, after peak file generation.
• Imported XML project files containing numerical character references in metadata text fields did not display the intended characters.
• The automatic search in the Link Media dialog could miss files that a subsequent manual search could locate.
• Canceling the Fewer Audio Channels dialog could show a File Import Failure dialog instead of returning to the Locate File dialog.
• Relinking audio to a file with fewer channels could leave orphaned clips in the timeline and cause an error when reopening the project.
• Playback in the Program Monitor could stop when a multi-camera clip was also open in the Source Monitor, and its source clip was updated, such as when waveforms were generated, or a marker was added.

Audio

• Adjusting the ducking Sensitivity setting in the Essential Sound panel could produce different results in Premiere 26.5 than in earlier versions.

Performance and Stability

• Premiere could quit unexpectedly when a sequence had an unrecognized output color space.
• Extended Premiere sessions on Windows could use up all available operating system UI resources.
• Premiere could freeze during Auto Save.

November 2026 (version 26.5.3)

Fixed issues

• Premiere could crash after prolonged use because of a resource leak when opening context menus that contain color swatches.
• Growing files in the MOV container would be imported as audio only.
• Pressing Spacebar to start playback of a transcript in the Text panel could shift focus to the Timeline panel.
• Masked effects applied to scaled clips could fail to render during playback or skimming when Playback Resolution was set below Full, and could be omitted from exports when down-converting resolution.
• Playback could stop in a multicam sequence if the sequence was also open in the Source Monitor and clips or markers were updated during playback.

September 2026 (version 26.5.2)

Fixed issues

• Values adjusted in the Effect Controls panel using the Up and Down arrow keys were not retained.
• For Productions stored on network-attached storage, projects sometimes failed to save on the first attempt but saved successfully on a second try when multiple collaborators were working on the Production at the same time.
• Scanning the projects in a Production could be slow immediately after opening it.
• For Productions stored on network-attached storage, moving or renaming projects in the Production panel did not work consistently when multiple collaborators were working in the Production at the same time.
• On Windows systems without GPU hardware acceleration for the format, some Long GOP 10-bit 4:2:2 media showed visual artifacts, including green frames, during playback and export.
• Simplified information is now presented in the Generative Media Tool's premium feature pop-up.

September 2026 (version 26.5.1)

Fixed issue

• Increased transparency for generation and credit usage associated with the Generative Media Tool. 

September 2026 (version 26.5)

Feature updates

• Generate video and sound effects with the Generative Media Tool directly in your Premiere timeline. Add the generated media as editable clips to your sequence, so you can continue refining your edit. 
• Create sequences from transcripts with Paper Edit. Select multiple lines of transcript in the Text panel and use them to quickly construct sequences.
• Bring footage from Sony FX5 cameras directly into your editing workflow with expanded camera support. Edit Sony XAVC and XOCN media with support for 32-bit float Hi-Res audio in Premiere alongside your other media for a more seamless production workflow.
• Improved ProRes RAW support. Enhanced compatibility makes it easier to bring ProRes RAW footage into your editing workflow in Premiere.
• Match audio settings automatically with Match Source. Match Source now includes your source's audio channels and sample rate, with automatic downmixing and warnings when a format can't support the source's channel layout.
• Refine Object Masks with new smoothness controls for more precise, natural-looking mask edges.
• Enjoy three new and updated effects: a fully customizable Lens Flare for cinematic looks, a rebuilt Twirl distortion effect with new controls (the original is now under Legacy), and an updated softness control in Mosaic for crisper, more natural results at low settings.
• Generative Extend now supports more source media, including resolutions from 360p to 4K UHD, any aspect ratio, and interlaced or non-square-pixel footage. You can also extend clips from 12–60 fps, 8-bit to 16-bit, and SDR or HDR sources. Your original media stays unchanged while Premiere generates the extension in a supported format.
• Bring ARRICORE media from ALEXA 35 Xtreme cameras directly into your editing workflow. Expanded support makes it easier to work with footage from this latest ARRI camera workflow in Premiere. 
• Take advantage of hardware-accelerated 4:2:2 10-bit decoding for AVC and HEVC in MXF on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
• Get faster preview generation with expanded Smart Rendering support for XAVC-I media, including XAVC Intra Class 100 1080 and XAVC Intra Class 300 UHD.
• Show or hide audio and video transition handles in the timeline, with new options in the Timeline Display Settings and matching keyboard shortcuts.
• Get more accurate transcription with a new Voice Activity Detection model for speech-to-text.
• Decode MotionJPEG, MKV, and RLE Animation MOV natively on Windows on ARM.
• Locate, offline, or reset media faster with a new context menu option in the Link Media dialog.
• A button for Selection Follows Playhead was added to the timeline.
• An option to turn off dynamic timeline updates during ripple trimming has been added to Preferences > Trim.

Fixed issue

Graphics, text, and captions

• Editing captions in right-to-left languages (such as Arabic) in the Text panel could cause an error and momentarily blank the caption text.
• For video effects with a Surprise Me! control, the Seed property in the Effect Controls panel did not appear instantly.
• Footage with a pixel aspect ratio different from the sequence could appear cropped when effects were applied and the sequence resolution was smaller than the source media.
• After rendering, areas defined by an opacity mask could briefly appear as black.
• Shift did not constrain new vertex placement to the 45-degree angles when drawing a mask path with the Pen Tool.
• Project panel Preview Area thumbnail would redraw when moving Effect Controls panel keyframes.
• Creating a caption track via API could result in the track containing no stream index.
• For the Transform effect, the motion path was missing from the UI in the Program Monitor.
• Multiple selected text layers could not be moved or transformed together in the Properties panel.
• Guide position did not update while editing guides.
• Ease keyframes would change to auto-bezier and create an unexpected path.
• Source Graphic text would not update via the Program Monitor.
• Controls inside the Add Guide and Edit Guide dialog were broken.
• With Snap enabled in the Program Monitor, snapping an element to another element was not possible.
• For graphics, keyframes would not be created or changed when using Direct Manipulation on the Program Monitor for scale and rotation parameters.
• An incorrect or stale style could appear in the Properties panel for text layers.
• While Direct Manipulation was active, guides would disappear when the CTI moved off of the clip.
• Double-clicking in the Program Monitor would not select the clip at the playhead when there was an existing selection on the timeline.
• After using Auto adjustment in the Lumetri Color effect, undo did not apply correctly.
• When changing any font parameter or resizing Direct Manipulation, captions would judder in the Program Monitor.
• The Hide Caption Track option would improperly display as hidden.
• The gradient fill would not remain sticky when creating a new shape.
• The Closed Caption button displayed improperly in the Timeline.
• The Dip To Black transition did not always reach true black frames.

Generative AI

• Tracking a mask on non-square-pixel media in 26.x versions was less accurate than in previous versions.
• Object Mask tracking could produce jagged, stair-stepped edges or appear boxy or pixelated along the edges.
• Extending the start of a clip with the Generative Extend tool could result in offsets to existing Object Mask tracking.
• Changing a sequence's frame rate after seeking could cause the Object Mask hover preview to become misaligned with the current frame.
• An offset in audio waveforms could occur when using the Generative Extend tool on the head of a clip.

Search and media intelligence

• Repeatedly dragging multiple Search panel results into the timeline could cause a crash or unresponsiveness.
• When searching for markers in the Search panel, the first letter of a word suggestion could appear highlighted and duplicated.
• Sidecar cache files for Media Intelligence (.prmi) were not used when importing media in cases where the files had been modified after the sidecar was created.
• When playing an audio search result in the Search panel, playback could start with a short delay and the waveform animation could fall out of sync.
• Dragging a marker subclip from the Search panel onto the timeline could fail to place the clip on the timeline.
• Searching for effects by attribute could fail to return matching effects saved in the Favorites folder.

Import, export, and interoperability

• Relinking media could fail when the mounted volume name was changed, or when moving from macOS to Windows (or Windows to macOS).
• When exporting a selection as a project, an inappropriate default filename was generated.
• Re-linking of MXF files could take longer than expected and make opening projects very slow.
• Windows-originated projects could fail to auto-relink media on macOS when the project was nested more than one folder deep.
• When a project referenced media on an external drive and the drive was not mounted at load time, the media would not automatically relink when the drive was re-mounted.
• Final Cut Pro XML import could result in Cross-Dissolve transitions importing as Cross-Dissolve (Legacy).
• Exporting sequences using Dynamic Link could cause UI glitches in the Adobe Media Encoder encoding panel.
• Growing MXF files on shared storage could intermittently go offline when a project was refreshed or reopened.
• MKV files recorded with OBS could result in dropped frames during playback.
• The start timecode of 100fps media could be misread when using proxies generated by a media asset management system, causing the proxy and high-res files to be out of sync on export.
• Importing a project or sequence with embedded closed captions could add duplicate audio tracks.

Productions, projects, and collaboration

• Using Reveal in Project within a Production could cause a hang.
• Project View Presets did not save or load correctly.
• The list of recently used Productions in the Open Production dialog contained numerous menu separators.
• On Windows, the Save Project As dialog did not open in the active project's directory.
• The Sync Status column in the set of Metadata Display choices was unused.
• Typing an integer into a floating-point effect control value could cause the project to appear edited when there was no change in the value.
• The Open Production dialog could show a folder's root name instead of the production's name.
• Moving unlicensed assets in the Project panel while in Icon view could cause an error message to appear.
• "Delete media file(s) from disk" in the Delete Selection with Options dialog was not working.
• The list of recently used Productions in the Open Production dialog showed incorrect paths.
• A Production saved in a newer version would silently fail to open, when it should have shown an error message.
• Opening a Production created with a newer version could incorrectly flag it as invalid and overwrite its PRODSET file.
• After a clip was moved to a different project, opening a Production project with a sequence containing the clip did not update the cross-project reference to the clip, breaking operations such as Reveal in Project.
• Trashing a Production project or folder with a numeric suffix in its name multiple times altered the original number instead of appending a new one, e.g. "Foo_01" became "Foo_1" instead of "Foo_01_1".
• In a Production, moving a project or folder silently failed if an item with the same name already existed in the destination folder.
• Reading project lock file data in a Production could cause the user interface to feel sluggish.

Audio

• Changing Pan on multiple audio clips would result in incorrect values of -100 or 100.
• The Audio Track Mixer's "Write" automation mode did not work.
• Recording a voiceover could cause a crash when the clip was inserted into the timeline, if an AJA device was set as the audio output.
• Deleted ducking keyframes were sometimes still reflected in a sequence's audio output.
• A crash could occur under some circumstances when closing a project with an undocked Audio Clip Mixer panel.

Performance, playback, and stability

• Adding hundreds of new clips to a sequence at once could cause a spike in memory usage.
• Quitting on macOS could occasionally produce a crash report on exit.
• Rearranging the Project panel while items were being added to a project could cause a crash.
• Third-party plug-ins that attempted to perform frame-by-frame video analysis could display errors for all frames requested by the plugin.
• Scaled vertical HEVC video could briefly jump back to full size during playback or scrubbing in the Program Monitor.
• Thumbnail hover scrubbing in the Media Browser, Import panel, and Project panel could appear laggy or skip frames.
• Scrubbing certain high-bitrate H.264 UHD video could result in reduced playback performance.
• The application could fail to launch under some conditions.
• A crash could occur while saving a project or relinking media.
• A crash related to fonts in text could occur at launch or later in a session.
• A 12000 error message could appear when software rendering fallback occurred in the timeline while using Film Impact plugins.
• The Camera Shake effect could cause a memory leak and rendering errors when the effect fell back to CPU rendering.
• Background Auto-Save could cause sluggishness.
• If AMD-GPU specific versions of Boris FX Sapphire plugins were installed on a system with no AMD GPU installed, the application could hang or crash on startup.

General and workspace

• The default Effects workspace layout was incorrect.
• Some UI strings in the Overlay Settings dialog and Settings menu in the Program Monitor were not localized to non-English languages.