Last updated on
Aug 14, 2025
Find out about the latest updates, new features, and bug fixes in recent Premiere Pro desktop releases.
August 2025 (version 25.4)
Feature updates
- Live waveform editing to see how an edit impacts audio.
- Apply, edit, and manage transitions across audio and video clips with Multi-Transitions.
- Most responsive timeline playback and performance.
- New hardware acceleration on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
- ARRIRAW HDE decoding support.
- New preferences for Graphics.
System updates
- The 25.4 version of Premiere Pro isn't supported on macOS Monterey (version 12). Mac users can continue to use up to 25.3 or previous versions on Apple Silicon and Intel-based Macs.
Fixed issues
- Audio Clip Mixer showed only one stereo channel after reverting the Modify Audio Channel changes.
- Gain changes applied to multi-mono or multi-channel clips in Source Monitor are not reflected in the audio waveform until re-opened.
- Audio Track Mixer could appear blank after switching workspaces.
- Clip volume/gain changes in a nested sequence did not update the waveform in the main sequence.
- Importing 708 captions could result in missing or wrong characters being displayed in some cases.
- Importing 608 captions could result in caption text being duplicated unexpectedly.
- The Auto Color background process could appear when opening a project, even if Auto Color was not used.
- Crash from Find dialog when the Project in Icon view contained hidden clips.
- Clips with ranged markers did not show the marker name in the timeline when trimmed past the in-point of the marker.
- Dragging metadata search results from the Search panel to the Timeline did not ignore existing in/out points in the clip.
- Premiere Pro could hang on quit if smart bins were updating at the time of exit.
- After creating a proxy, the proxy was sometimes not used for playback until the clip had been loaded into the Source Monitor or sequence or Premiere Pro had been closed, relaunched, and the project reopened.
- Reopening a project does not show up under Recent in the home screen.
- Project panel metadata fields could persist even after they were hidden.
- A crash would occur when choosing Sort Order from the Automate to Sequence dialog while in Freeform View in the Project panel.
- The incorrect button was activated in confirmation dialogs after using the left/right arrows to change button focus.
- Pixel aspect ratio on some files was incorrect - 1.0075 instead of 1.0 - with hardware acceleration enabled.
- The rendering required the Files dialog for Clip Speed/Duration, but it did not show progress.
- Export Crop Position will not be honored in exported Presets.
- Audio-only exports from sequences that had non-zero start times would export with the wrong timecode.
- Saved Source Effect Preset disappears from the custom preset list after restarting Premiere Pro.
- Wrong frames are returned by the frame checkout operation inside the third party transition.
- Some AVI files could take a long time to import on Windows computers.
- Thumbnails showed black frames for RED R3D media files in Media Browser with RED directory viewer selected on Apple Silicon machines.
- Having an active text search in the Text panel could cause the playhead to jump unexpectedly while editing or switching sequences.
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Feature updates
- Advanced filtering in the Search panel.
- Label colors in sequence tabs.
- Improved data range and color metadata handling for DNxHR, DNxHD, and PNG.
System updates
- Support for NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture GPUs.
Fixed issues
- No Content Credentials were shown in the Media File Properties dialog for Generative Extend clips.
- No Content Credentials icon was shown on Generative Extend clips in freeform view.
- Audio streams with a starting audio packet with an incorrect sample size could cause the audio and video to go out of sync during playback.
- A disk error event was sometimes thrown during audio conforming.
- Auto-transcription on clips longer than 1 hour(s) could fail.
- Input LUTS were ignored when dragging in/out markers in the Source Monitor.
- With the Project panel not in focus, adding a new synthetic clip item would fail to add the item to the project.
- 23.98 sequence could be exported as 23.00.
- Media Encoder could crash after parallel encoding.
- After clicking on a parameter in the Effect Control panel to select the keyframes, using shortcuts to change the interpolation could fail.
- Addressed a crash with some 3rd-party effects.
- Customized parameters of third-party transitions were lost if the project was saved on a computer where the plugin was not installed or disabled.
- When using RED R3D media, a LUT selected in camera during recording was not correctly applied to the media. Selecting the LUT in the Source Settings panel could cause a crash.
- Importing a bad Canon Cinema RAW resulted in playback and import errors for other known good Cinema RAW files. Restarting the application was the only remedy to restore import and playback operations.
- Footage could be in a media pending state long after project opened and media was relinked.
- The Add Marker command on some custom keyboard presets could act as a double press, opening the Edit Marker dialog.
- Search panel results were incorrect after using Replace Footage on clips.
- Media with modified pixel aspect ratios would not show correct thumbnails in the Search panel during hover-scrub.
Feature updates
- Add frames using Generative Extend.
- Find your footage faster with AI-powered Media Intelligence.
- Generate multilingual captions with Translate Captions.
- Improved color management.
- Adjust clip volumes with Dynamic Audio Waveforms.
System updates
- Added support for import of MKV (H.264/AAC) files.
- Add Content Credentials into exported video files.
- Hardware acceleration for Canon Cinema RAW Light.
Fixed issues
- Audio waveform generation was sometimes not resumed after closing and reopening a project.
- The Progress dashboard did't show determinate progress for Enhance Speech.
- The track routing output button appeared in instances when it should have been hidden. Changing the track output routing in the Audio Track Mixer did not properly show or hide the output assignment button. Clicking on the output assignment button in this scenario would lead to a crash.
- Pasting the Volume effect to another stereo clip within the Effect Controls panel duplicated that effect on the pasted clip.
- 5.1 audio device output mapping, specified in Preferences > Audio Hardware, was not preserved with MME devices.
- Audio hardware devices with 4 outputs will now work with sequences that have 5.1 Mix Track outputs. Previously, 5.1 Sequences with audio devices that have only 4 outputs were silent.
- Audio playback would stop for some multicam users using the Match Frame command with automatic waveform generation turned off.
- Clip automation was sometimes altered when recording audio via Latch automation. The automation was affected before the latch automation was written to the clip, causing the keyframe line to be in the wrong position.
- The mix track's fader in the Audio Track Mixer was reset to 0.0 when the Timeline panel was activated during playback.
- The Remix tool could be used on a clip in a read-only project.
- A re-focus on Premiere Pro with Auto Detect Log Video Color Space option enabled in RAW media file workflows resulted in memory management issues.
- Encode workflows using RAW media file sources in Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder with Auto Detect Log Video Color Space option enabled experienced memory management issues.
- When using a Color Setup other than Direct Rec. 709, the color picker in HSL Secondary did not sample correctly.
- Batch exporting sequences with captions results in missing burnt-in captions.
- Clips with embedded captions would not show the Direct Manipulation menu in the Program Monitor panel.
- Render and Replace wasn't correctly handling clips that have an audio offset from the video.
- Background processes for Media Intelligence in the Progress panel sometimes disappeared or showed an incorrect completion amount.
- The thumbnail viewer in the Project panel preview area could remain visible after the preview area was hidden.
- Crashes could occur when scrolling in the sequence timeline.
- Some panels would not respond to the Close panel command or keyboard shortcut.
- When the video track height was set to the minimum, edit points were very difficult to see.
- Some of the user interfaces in the learning panel weren’t displaying correctly.
- After creating masks or keyframes in the Effect Controls panel, shortcuts or commands in the panels' contextual menu could be unavailable.
- Addressed an issue where FCP XML could interpret 25fps as 50fps.
- Changing the exported frame rate in Export mode caused an incorrect duration to show below the Preview frame.
- Export mode Timecode fields incorrectly showed non-drop frame values for Drop frame timecode.
- Exporting captions with accents on characters would sometimes not be exported properly.
- Responded to changes on Vimeo platform: Password-protected sharing is no longer available for free accounts, it now requires an upgraded account.
- Panasonic P2 AVCI50 media would not play back on Panasonic cameras and decks.
- Adjusting some values in the Source Settings for .r3d media could lead to a crash.
- AVI MJPEG files could not be imported into After Effects or Premiere Pro on Mac Intel systems.
- Frame retrieval and frame replacement errors could be seen when playing back Canon Cinema RAW files.
- macOS QuickTime Player and macOS Preview show pixelation on every fourth frame of H.264 videos hardware encoded by Premiere Pro on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15.x.
- Stock mogrts would sometimes not show up in the Graphics Templates panel when Free and Premium filters were used.
- Replacing media in a mogrt file didn’t work from the Source panel.
- The Essential Graphics panel showed black thumbnails when some Windows user names had special characters.
- Various transmit fixes.
- A crash sometimes occurred while playing a clip after enabling Hardware Decode in Media Preferences.
- Premiere Pro could crash during startup if certain third-party codecs were installed on the system.
Feature updates
- Rounded corner design for Timeline clips.
System updates
- Enhanced H.264 performance on Apple silicon computers and Windows.
Fixed issues
- The audio was not imported for MXF files with 32-bit audio.
- The Progress panel sometimes showed duplicated Enhance Speech processes.
- Newly created Audio Tracks did not respect the Solo state of other tracks.
- Attributes would not be correctly pasted across all audio channels of a clip on the timeline.
- Clicking on a clip badge to open the Effect Controls or Essential Sound panels would open the panels on the mouse down.
- Premiere Pro would sometimes crash when disabling Enhance Speech during processing on nested sequences.
- When importing a custom caption preset which was previously saved with a certain style, the Style option could erroneously be reset to None.
- Undoing a merge of multiple captions segments would not select all segments.
- The Time Ruler Numbers option for Timeline was disabled, and the shortcut didn't work.
- Some EDLs would fail to import.
- The Progress Sheet was not docked with other panels when opened from the Windows menu.
- Premiere Pro would hang when exporting some projects to XML.
- Option or Alt + mouse wheel would not zoom the Timeline based on the cursor location.
- Scaling below 50% of a still image in a timeline, when played in non-high quality, half or quarter resolution, could cause the image position to shift.
- Crash observed when opening an old Premiere Pro (22.x) project containing the Morph Cut effect.
- Some projects using the Morph Cut transition could crash when using the GPU-accelerated renderer.
- Observed artifacts during reverse playback of AVC Long GOP MXF media.
- [Regression 24.4] Adaptive bit rate presets (high/medium/low) under the video setting were showing the same bit rate during Export.
- Disabling the hardware-accelerated decode preference didn't work for ProRes media—playback would still use hardware acceleration with this option disabled.
- Duplicate Frame Markers were not displayed on clips at minimum track height.
- Duplicate Frame Marker colors could be out of order.
- Delete gap in Timeline could result in Duplicate Frame Markers disappearing from other clips equal to the duration of the deleted Timeline.
- When you drag a clip to the Timeline, different clips may have the same Duplicate Frame Marker color until you force update.
- Duplicate frame indicators, clip markers, and clip ends could jitter when the timeline is scrolled while playing.
- Read-only sequences from Media Browser allowed changes to be made.
- Timecode may be incorrect on exported audio, including AAF, EDL, OMF, XML, and ALE files.
- Clip Markers could sometimes not show or be added to audio-only clips in the Transcript tab of the Text panel.
- With a project set to Read Only, it could be possible to drag markers in the Transcript tab of the Text panel.
- Importing a corrected transcript could result in a timecode mismatch.
- When working with English transcripts, the first word of a sentence could erroneously start with a lowercase letter.
Feature updates
- Edit graphics using the Properties panel.
- Set up new projects quickly using the New Project creation dialog.
- Expanded Canon support with EOS C80.
System updates
- Refreshed, modern design with dark and light modes.
Fixed issues
- Audio waveforms for a nested sequence could be incorrect depending on the zoom level.
- With Auto-transcribe turned off, language auto-detection could still run on imported clips.
- Scene Edit Detection could fail to add any cuts if it were run on the video portion of an unlinked audio-video clip.
- Dragging a clip up in the Project panel icon view could cause the panel to continuously scroll even after dropping the clip.
- Command + J on macOS or Control + J on Windows can't be used as custom keyboard shortcuts.
- A crash could occur when changing the Bump layer from the default setting when using the Lighting Effect.
- Setting the Transform Effect Scale to below zero or modifying the Shutter Angle could cause the image position to shift.
- Effects could render incorrectly if scaling was set to be less than or equal to 50%.
- Pasting an effect in the Effect Controls panel that contained keyframes to a synthetic clip would not include the keyframes.
- In some complex projects containing many multicam sequences, media could be in a pending state long after a project opens.
- A crash could occur intermittently during the playback of a particular format of YUV 4:2:2 10-bit media.
- Green frames could be visible on exported 8K 10-bit 4:2:0 media.
- Frame substitution errors could occur when working with AVC LongGOP media in an MXF container.
- After changing a clip from using the Original Timecode to Linear Timecode, attempting to switch back to the Original Timecode could fail to display the correct timecode.
- Exported videos could incorrectly include metadata, saying the videos were created in Photoshop.
