New Features in Adobe Premiere 26.3

On June 23, Adobe released Premiere 26.3. Here’s a list of key features, all new features and bug fixes, plus two links to learn more.

Key Features

Link to learn more

• Create sequences automatically from Firefly Boards media
• Create single-word captions for social media
• Create custom transitions with Shape Dissolve
• Highlight details with the Magnify effect
• Object Mask improvements
• Sony Burano V3 Support
• Canon Cinema RAW Light support for four Canon cameras

Complete Feature List

Link to learn more

Key Features

• Import media from Firefly Boards into Premiere as a ready-to-edit sequence with clips arranged in selection order.
• Generate captions that display one word at a time to create fast-paced, attention-grabbing videos for social platforms. Customize the style and export captions exactly as they appear in your preview.
• Use the new Shape Dissolve transition to create everything from clean wipes to dynamic geometric blends, with full control over shape, motion, and timing.
• Draw attention to important areas of your video with a customizable magnifying lens. Adjust zoom, position, edge softness, and styling to create polished callouts and focus effects.
• Object Mask just got faster, smarter, and more collaboration-ready. Enjoy significantly improved tracking performance for quicker results, plus a new restore capability that automatically rebuilds masks, with all edits intact, when projects move between systems, so teams can share work confidently without losing progress.
• Premiere now supports two new resolutions for RAW X-OCN footage captured with the Sony BURANO V3 camera: full-frame anamorphic 5.8K and Super 35 crop 3.8K (16:9), up to 120 fps.
• Premiere adds support for Canon Cinema RAW Light files from the EOS C50, EOS R6 Mark III, EOS R6 V, and EOS C400, extending support to additional Canon camera models.
• Switching between workspaces in Premiere is now significantly faster, reducing time when moving between editing layouts.
• Control automatic track creation with a new Timeline preference that lets you choose whether Premiere adds tracks when you edit clips into a sequence.
• Opening a Production created in an older version of Premiere is now significantly faster. Large productions that previously took minutes or hours to upgrade now complete in a fraction of the time, with reduced memory usage and improved stability throughout the process.
• Preview Adobe Stock assets in your project and license them directly without leaving Premiere. When a previewed Stock asset appears in the Project panel, a cart icon lets you initiate licensing in place. Once licensed, the asset is added to your Adobe Stock bin, and any instances of the preview in your timeline are automatically replaced with the licensed version.
• Adding a slider in the Search panel so that for search results, the size of thumbnails, audio waveforms, and transcript text can be increased.
• Premiere is now better at detecting and enabling supported GPUs on qualified systems, reducing the number of cases where the application unexpectedly falls back to software rendering. Premiere also now alerts you when your GPU doesn’t meet the minimum specifications, so you know when hardware is the cause of performance or rendering issues.
• Premiere now alerts you when your operating system no longer meets minimum requirements. Windows 10 has been discontinued by Microsoft, and support for the same will be removed in a future release of Premiere. If you receive this alert, upgrade to Windows 11 version 24H2 or later to avoid interruption.

Fixed issues

• Transcribing on Windows machines with Intel Arc GPU could fail.
• Double-clicking a sequence marker in the Search panel could cause the playhead to move to the wrong place.
• Although a transcript is created, the transcription progress bar in the Text panel could get stuck when no sequence is open in the timeline.
• When creating a subclip from a source clip that contains a marker, the Search panel may erroneously show a marker result for the subclip, even though the subclip doesn’t contain a marker.
• When creating a subclip from a marker result in the Search panel, the new subclip would use the wrong timecode and show no marker.
• In the Search panel, search results for a sequence transcript would not update after removing transcribed clips from the sequence.
• The Change Clip Speed (Fit to Fill) option was unavailable during an edit when the source clip had a transcript attached.
• Users were unable to view Effects panel search results for some effects and transitions that contain (Legacy) in the name, due to incorrect search filtering.
• Users with a supported localized language were unable to see Noise (Legacy) in the Effects panel search results.
• Plugin developers who provide custom UI elements would be unable to access incoming media for transitions.
• Korean language users experienced inconsistent translation for Camera Blur in the Effects panel, resulting in the effect name being shown in English.
• The Program Monitor could get stuck indefinitely.
• Exporting to a smaller frame size could result in a loss of video quality in some situations.
• After reopening a project, a clip with Scale to Frame Size enabled could briefly render as black on the first frame.
• Layers beneath a clip that has been repositioned and scaled to more than 100% could incorrectly appear as black pixels.
• When exporting a sequence at a lower resolution, clips upscaled with Motion effects could render at lower quality than expected.
• When the same source clip appears twice in a sequence at different sizes (e.g., in a picture-in-picture layout), one instance would incorrectly snap to the wrong size during playback.
• Layers beneath a scaled and repositioned clip could incorrectly appear as black pixels.
• Premiere could crash when using Generative Extend on a clip that was simultaneously open in the Source Monitor.
• Danger stripes on clips extended with Generative Extend appeared transparent over clip thumbnails, making them difficult to see during the extension process.
• End-of-media indicators did not appear in clips extended with Generative Extend at fractional frame rates.
• Danger stripes on clips extended with Generative Extend could fail to update their position and size when resizing track height or zooming the Timeline, and could persist after undoing a Generative Extend operation.
• Using Generative Extend on a sequence that contained an embedded caption with its audio track deleted could cause Premiere to crash.
• Using the Generative Extend tool on a clip with audio gain would double the gain, resulting in incorrect playback volume.
• Sometimes it was necessary to click twice on a project shortcut on the home screen to open it.
• Toggle bounding box mode for Masks would incorrectly create a History item.
• On Windows ARM systems, tool shortcut keys were not appearing in the Tools panel sub-menus.
• Selecting Link Media from the File menu didn’t open the linked media window.
• Audio distortion could occur when exporting from sequences created from the Social Media project template.
• On Windows, when a project was saved directly to the root of a drive (such as D:\), the Scratch Disks section of Project Settings displayed the disk location with an unexpected \\?\ prefix and showed the available free space as ? GB instead of the actual amount.
• Rotating a Mask could result in the cursor flickering.
• Undoing the last Pen Mask control point of a closed Mask shape would result in not being able to exit bounding box mode.
• It was possible to make changes to a Caption in a read-only project.
• Dragging over portions of mask could display an incorrect cursor.
• Premiere could ignore the Default install language selected in Creative Cloud Desktop and launch in English instead.
• Export Frame would fail to include enabled captions in the timeline.
• Original audio clips in a sequence were not deselected after nesting them in a new sequence.
• Could not grab and move the smaller-sized masks in the Program Monitor.
• Rotate and Resize could occur within the inner portions of a mask, blocking other operations.
• The Hand Tool would not be able to move the video in the Program Monitor if you had closed and then reopened it.
• Metadata added in Export mode was not included when sending export jobs to Adobe Media Encoder.
• Unable to set the poster frame on clips extended with Generative Extend.
• The Project panel Preview Area Poster Frame Camera button was disabled for Sequences and Generative Extended clips.
• Users experienced playback issues in the export mode player.
• In some cases, copying files from a Sony FX6 camera failed on ingest
• Some users experienced burned-in captions instead of caption sidecar files on export.
• Pressing the tilde key to exit full-screen mode while the program was still loading could leave the Program Monitor permanently stuck in full-screen mode.
• Object Mask regeneration failed with an assert error if a previous regeneration attempt was stopped before completion; retrying without relaunching did not work.
• Copy and paste was disabled for offline masks when using the context menu or keyboard shortcuts within a local Premiere project.
• Offline and smooth object masks from a local Premiere project were incorrectly copied to a Team Project when copying and pasting effects or filters.
• Importing an untracked sequence via the Media Browser and then tracking its object mask produced incorrect rendering during playback until Premiere was relaunched.
• Object mask tracking failed and showed a write-failure dialog when the tracked clip was shorter than 4 frames.
• Mask tracking could cause significant lag and application freezes on Windows ARM devices.
• A pasted mask was not visible in the Effect Controls panel under Unassigned Masks until the sequence was reselected.
• Mask data could fail to copy-paste when the same media was pasted into a second sequence, if the first pasted sequence had been opened and rendered without being closed.
• Tracking did not work correctly in a multicam sequence when the selected camera angle was not on the topmost track in the source multicam sequence.
• After switching from multicam view back to composite mode, the object mask cursor was not visible in the Program Monitor; only the standard cursor appeared.
• After resetting an offline mask, the Lasso or Rectangle mask mode buttons and the mask edit tools were not visible in the Program Monitor until the cursor was moved into the panel.
• Mask controls remained visible in the Program Monitor after deleting a sequence that contained an object mask.
• Direct Manipulation controls stopped working after dragging a clip onto a higher video track while the playhead was positioned over another clip.
• When multiple masks are selected in the Effect Controls panel, the Direct Manipulation menu in the Program Monitor could show the wrong mask as the active mask.
• Windows users were unable to change the timecode in the Program Monitor when the Type Tool was selected.
• Resetting the Effects workspace placed the Effect Controls panel in the foreground instead of the Source Monitor.
• Premiere may crash when importing ARRIRAW MXF files with incomplete header metadata.
• On some lower-end systems, exporting video was slower than expected.
• Premiere may crash during the import of HEIC, HEIF, or WebP files.
• The Program Monitor could remain unresponsive and freeze during AVCHD (MTS) playback in Premiere.
• Premiere may crash on importing 6.2K HEVC 4:2:2 10-bit files on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
• Premiere may take much longer than expected to import long (1+ hour) compressed media, including MPEG-2, HEVC, and MPEG-4 AVC.
• Premiere may fail to import H.264 files that use an mp42 container ID.
• Some phone videos (including iPhone clips) can be imported into Premiere with the wrong orientation (for example, appearing upside down). Clip orientation is now handled correctly on import.
• Projects containing the Camera Shake Effect consumed large amounts of memory when CPU rendering occurs, which resulted in slower performance and potential instability in Premiere.
• Supported localized language users would see English text for the Apply Effect label and Close button when using the Film Impact Dashboard to add an effect to the project timeline with no clip selected (message pop-up).
• If a Search dropdown was open when the user moved the application window, the dropdown was not reacting to the moved window position. Search dropdowns now self-dismiss on user-click of other OS-application UI, such as window header, this is consistent with how other kinds of popup content are handled.
• On Windows, the LUT color looks applied in Premiere were not carried through when sending a project to Adobe Media Encoder for export.
• Exports to XML would represent all transitions as cuts.
• Opening a project stored at the root of an external drive could cause Premiere to spend a long time searching for missing media, sometimes scanning the entire internal startup drive unnecessarily.
• Added a check to prevent Production and Project names from starting with ‘.’ or ending with ‘.’ or ‘ ‘ as this has certain limitations in macOS and/or Windows.
• In collaborative environments using shared network storage, opening a Production project that had previously been used by another user could cause Premiere to freeze.
• Adding a large number of projects to a production could take a long time.
  When adding multiple projects to a Production at the same time, some projects could end up with duplicate IDs, causing errors to appear. Projects added individually were not affected.
• Premiere could crash when ducking audio clips tagged as Music against a high number of dialogue clips.
• Encrypted SRT streams over Transmit failed to function.
• Performing a Save As Copy no longer breaks the Essential Sound panel ducking feature.
• Some macOS users experience a crash when adding keyframes in the Effects Control panel for the Flanger effect.
• Customers with certain AMD drivers would experience crashes.
• Improved the image quality of the Gaussian Blur video effect’s Repeat Edge setting.