Premiere Pro 25.5 adds 90+ new effects, fast GPU playback and major timeline upgrades

Adobe Premiere Pro has announced version 25.5, launching on September 12, 2025, with a focus on real-time effects, transitions, enhanced color grading, GPU acceleration, and more. A key part of this release is Adobe’s newly announced acquisition of Film Impact, a company known for its library of professional video effects and transitions. That catalog is now built directly into Premiere Pro, adding over 90 GPU-accelerated effects, transitions, and animations. Editors gain access to cinematic and 3D transitions, glitches, VHS damage, kaleidoscope, and other styles directly in the Effects panel or through the Film Impact Dashboard with live previews. Color grading also expands with tools like bokeh, volumetric rays, glowing halation, vignettes, blend modes, chromatic aberration, and realistic camera shake.

Motion workflows are streamlined with drag-and-drop transitions for text, video, and graphics, covering many 2D and 3D tasks without leaving Premiere Pro. There's a new “Surprise Me” button that instantly generates variations of effects and transitions so you can experiment with the ones you like the most. Editing performance also improves with timeline updates showing waveforms, markers, and keyframes during edits, multi-fade adjustment across clips, and playback latency reduced to under 0.1 seconds. Hardware acceleration now supports 10-bit 4:2:2 H.264/HEVC on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, faster Canon Cinema RAW Light export, ARRIRAW HDE playback, and rewritten MKV support.

There are also new features coming to After Effects 25.5, including Quick Offset, which lets users shift multiple keyframes or layers at once with a single drag, simplifying complex comps. Motion designers will notice smoother zooming and navigation in the comp viewer for more precise adjustments, as well as caching improvements for faster previews and playback.