Software » Video Editors » Adobe Premiere Pro 26.0

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.