Adobe has announced a new update to Premiere Pro. version 25.5 introduces more than 90 new effects, transitions, and animations. The release coincides with IBC 2025 and incorporates technology from Film Impact, a company Adobe recently acquired.
The new collection includes dissolves, blurs, wipes, distortion effects, glitch styles, and a set of 3D transitions. Editors can customize each effect or use them in their default states, with GPU acceleration providing real-time playback. A “Surprise Me” function generates variations of transitions and effects for quick experimentation. Color grading options have been broadened with glows, blurs, chromatic aberration, and curve editors, while text and graphics can now be animated directly within Premiere Pro without round-tripping to After Effects.
Premiere Pro 25.5 also introduces updates aimed at smoother editing workflows. Audio waveforms remain visible while dragging clips, keyframes can be added more reliably, and users can apply fades across multiple clips simultaneously. Timeline playback has been improved with a target of reducing start times to under one-tenth of a second. Hardware acceleration now supports formats such as Canon Cinema RAW Light and ARRIRAW HDE, and 10-bit 4:2:2 media playback is available on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
Additional usability improvements include customizable default fonts for text and captions, new keyboard shortcuts for track mute and solo, support for 16-bit PNG files, and sequence color tabs for organization.
After Effects 25.5 is released alongside Premiere Pro, introducing Quick Offset for shifting multiple layers or keyframes at once. The update also brings smoother zooming in the composition viewer and faster caching for playback and previews.
For a full list of what’s new, visit Adobe’s website
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