Adobe Premiere Pro 25.5 Launches with 90+ New Effects, Motion Tools, and Major Timeline Upgrades

Premiere Pro is about to get a major boost with new motion capabilities, massive updates for audio editing and timeline playback, and a bunch of additional improvements that just make life better for editors.

When you’re deep in an edit, the right effect or transition can make all the difference, turning a good cut into something unforgettable. Starting September 12 — just in time for IBC 2025 — we’re putting those creative tools front and center in Premiere Pro 25.5, introducing more than 90 new, modern effects, transitions and animations, all included in your plan. These tools are powered by Adobe’s recent acquisition of Film Impact, whose high-value library is now seamlessly built into Premiere Pro. No need for a separate plug-in or subscription — we’ve got you covered. This is just the beginning of new effects workflows coming to Premiere Pro, and we can't wait to show you what's next.

And because we’ve been listening closely to your feedback — every “I wish it could…” and “what if it just…” — we’ve paired all these new motion capabilities with quality-of-life upgrades that cut steps, smooth bumps, and keep you in your creative flow. More responsive timeline playback, beautifully dynamic visual waveforms, and smoother, GPU-accelerated editing keep you in the zone from start to finish. Plus, we’re bringing more quality-of-life improvements to After Effects, too.

This release is by editors, for editors — built to spark your imagination, remove friction, and give you more time to focus on what matters most: telling great stories.

Take your transitions to the next level

Elevate your edits with modern transitions, cinematic effects, and stunning text and graphic animations designed for pro editors. You can use every transition, effect, and animation in a gorgeous default state, or adjust and customize every parameter from scratch for complete creative control — from glowing highlights to dynamic glitches and everything in between.

They’re all GPU-accelerated, playing back in real time as soon as you drag and drop. And they’ll keep on playing back in real time no matter how many tweaks you make. No more red render bars.

Over a dozen new transitions and effects playing back on a social cutdown.

These transitions redefine the classics. The dozens of new dissolves, blurs, and wipes now included in Premiere Pro are smooth, rich, and elegant. When you’re looking for something a little rougher around the edges, you can add attitude with earthquake, glitch, distortion, VHS damage, and chaos transitions. Looking for something a little more wild? Try kaleidoscope — trust us. You even have a new collection of captivating 3D transitions that add depth to your videos.

The new kaleidoscope transition playing back with light leaks.

Upgrade your color grading

One of the most important parts of color grading is evolving the look of your video with atmospheric textures, and the new library of effects in Premiere Pro helps you take your visuals to the next level faster than ever. The collection of glows, blurs, and echoes help you add photorealistic bokeh, volumetric rays, glowing halation, and dazzling glints to your clips. Apply vignettes that warp to any shape you desire. Independently shift red, green, and blue channels to color correct for fluorescent lighting. We’ve got curve editors, color pickers, chromatic aberration, custom blend modes, and so much more — everything you need to drag, drop, and animate. Even add a camera shake effect so realistic you’ll swear your tripod shots were captured on someone’s shoulder.

Adding camera shake to a locked tripod shot.

Animating text, video, and graphics is now as fun and easy as dragging and dropping a transition. If you’re not a professional motion designer, you can save hours of round-tripping to After Effects by keeping your motion work inside of Premiere Pro. Make static graphics move in seconds with motion transitions that grow, pop, wiggle, and sweep light across your titles. Skip the tedious keyframing and turn static 2D text into a 3D animated motion graphic with shadows, depth, and realism in seconds. Or clone a logo with built-in animations, creating motion graphics in seconds that look like they took hours to create.

Creating motion designs in Premiere Pro with only two .PNG files.

One of the most powerful features included in every new transition, effect, and animation is the “Surprise Me” button. With just one click, you can preview endless variations of your effect or transition for ideating outside of the box and stretching your imagination.

With the 90+ transitions, effects, and animations, limitless customization, and the “Surprise Me” button, your effects can look completely unique for every edit you take on.

You can access all 90+ transitions, effects, and animations in the Effects panel, or navigate to the Window menu and select “Film Impact Dashboard” in the Extensions menu for an interactive panel with live previews of every tool.

Snappier timeline and smoother editing with GPU-acceleration

As an editor, you spend most of your day in the timeline. That’s why we’ve continued to overhaul it under the hood to improve interactivity, visibility, and speed.

Since the launch of Premiere Pro, dragging a clip on the timeline meant moving around an empty rectangle. If you wanted to see how an edit would impact the audio, you’d have to eyeball it and guess until you got the result you wanted. We know all that extra clicking really adds up, so we’ve revamped the sequence: Now audio waveforms remain visible when dragging a clip or performing common edit tasks, like ripple/roll edits or rate stretch.

Plus, keyframes and markers are displayed alongside the waveform while dragging a clip too, helping you maintain sync with key audio or visual elements.

Last year, we added new visual fade handles, which many editors love. But we heard you: Now you can add or adjust multiple fades at the same time. Just select all the clips at once and fade (or cross-fade) away!

All these visual updates, along with multithreaded audio conform and peak file generation to speed up waveform generation, make editing audio in your timeline in Premiere Pro smoother than ever.

But we haven’t just been focused on waveforms. In the last few releases, we’ve worked on scrolling, skimming, and UI refresh rate — and now we’re focusing on overall playback. Because when you want to watch your edit, you shouldn’t have to wait.

Let’s get nerdy for a moment. We’re working toward (and measuring for) a specific goal: less than a tenth of a second to start playback — for every Premiere Pro user. That means barely perceiving the wait between hitting play and watching frames begin to move. We’ve already made a ton of progress here, and you can expect to see even more work on playback speed soon.

And when it comes to format support and playback, things have never been smoother:

• New hardware acceleration of 10-bit 4:2:2 media in both H.264 and HEVC codecs on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs provides great performance for formats that combine small file size and great quality.
• Hardware acceleration of Canon Cinema RAW Light makes for smoother playback and up to 10x faster export.
• New support for ARRIRAW HDE (High Density Encoding) enables playback of ARRIRAW that is 60 percent of the original file size.

Sometimes, the little things matter most:

• On top of delivering major features that impact your day-to-day quality of life, we’re also working on small-but-mighty workflow enhancements that can make a difference.
• You asked for a preference to set the default font for text and captions — you got it! No more Minion Pro.
• Work from the keyboard even faster with new shortcuts for toggling track mute and solo based on track targeting.
• Don’t you hate it when you try to add a keyframe to the last frame of a clip in the Effect Controls panel and it jumps to the beginning of the next clip? Fixed that too!

Working with higher end color and finishing workflows? Now you can import 16-bit PNG files. Plus, we’ve improved the data range and color metadata handling for PNG, DNxHR, and DNxHD.

Organization is everything, so use new Sequence Color Tabs to add some visual guidance to your workflow.

And in case you missed it, we completely rewrote support for MKV.

Great new features in After Effects, too

Just like Premiere Pro, After Effects 25.5 delivers a big basket of the features and improvements that matter most to professional motion designers.

In After Effects 25.5, we’re introducing Quick Offset. It’s a nifty tool that allows you to highlight and shift the positions of multiple keyframes or layers with one simple click-and-drag. No matter how simple or complex your comp is, you can adjust the temporal relationships between layers or keyframes faster than ever before. No more clicking and shifting one layer at a time (a real bonus when you have dozens of them!).

Quick Offset in After Effects helps you animate dozens of layers faster than ever.

Zooming in close and magnifying your comp for detailed work is something motion designers do every day. As soon as you update, you’ll notice significantly smoother zooming and navigation inside your comp viewer. It makes pixel-tweaking and fine-tuning that much easier. You’ll also notice caching improvements for even faster preview and playback.

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Basic Time-Saving Video Editing Tips for Photographers

Video editing can be incredibly tedious if you do not know the tricks of the trade, and it comes as no surprise that most amateur photographers/videographers come to dread editing videos not long after their careers commence.

Fortunately, there are a myriad of ways that you can make video editing much less painless; so much so that you even begin to enjoy the video editing process. Let's dive straight into today's topic and look at a couple of basic time-saving tips for photographers.

Choose the “Right” Editing Software

The first and easiest change you can make that can make a huge difference on your overall editing time is simply that of choosing the right video editing software. Some software is more intuitive than others, and if you happen to be using a particularly cumbersome editing application, then you could just be ‘shooting yourself in the foot’ - metaphorically of course.

Of course, this point isn't going to apply to everyone. If you already happen to be relatively happy with the editing software you use and think that said software is not an issue, then this might not be the right avenue to go down.

However, if you constantly find yourself struggling to perform certain tasks because of poorly-designed software and dread using it every time you edit, you may have a problem. If this is you, it could be a pretty good indication that you need to switch things up, and you are likely going to see a stark improvement in editing time as a direct result.

Shoot for the Edit

Most photographers tend to try and get entire projects done in just one sitting. From start to finish, most people assume that getting the entire task out of the way right from the offset is the most effective way to go, and the majority of people try to minimize editing time by taking shortcuts when filming. However, this is actually incredibly counter-intuitive.

Shooting for the edit will make things so much easier for you when it comes to the actual editing process, and in the overwhelming majority of cases, shooting for the edit is usually much more efficient.

Moreover, there are also a variety of editing programs out there that can allow you to capitalize on your efforts perfectly, and you would be shocked at just how much easier it is to shoot for the edit and touch things up on a site like Hitfilm rather than get the whole thing done in one fell swoop.

Shooting for the edit is a must if you want to make your life a whole lot easier, and once you begin implementing this philosophy, you will come to find that editing to be exponentially easier.

Learn Keyboard Shortcuts

Something that most people tend to forget about is that of keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts can actually shave a ton of time off the editing process, and the vast majority of photographers would benefit greatly from their use.

Taking the time to learn all of the essential Windows shortcuts is going to allow you to cut down your editing time quite substantially, and you would be surprised at just how much of a difference a few simple key shortcuts can make.

Sure, you could make the argument that keyboard shortcuts are not going to make that big of a difference in the long run. Moreover, you may even be right.

It is incredibly unlikely that utilising keyboard shortcuts is going to make all that big of an impact on your overall editing time, and it would be somewhat misleading to say that this could shave hours or even days off of your editing process.

However, over the course of your career, using keyboard shortcuts is going to save you a ton of struggle and strife, and perhaps its main benefit is simply going to be that of making the editing process much easier.

Once you learn how to correctly utilise keyboard shortcuts, you will quickly begin to wonder how you ever survived without them, and never again will you have to go through the arduous process of manually doing functions that can be done automatically through the use of a simple keyboard shortcut.

Pace Your Cuts

In spite of what you may think at first, pacing your cuts when shooting a video can cut down editing time drastically. If you find yourself amongst the people who just decide to do a cut whenever a scene goes amuck or when the participants need a break, you are hindering yourself more than you think, and you would be much better off by having a set time for each scene/section.

This approach makes things much easier when it comes to editing things together - you will be able to fit things into one another seamlessly. Pacing your cuts can do you a world of good, and if you are serious about creating the best videos possible in the shortest amount of time, then this is an absolute necessity.

If you begin to incorporate all of the tips we have given you in this article, you will notice an immediate reduction in the time it takes you to edit videos, and you may even be able to cut your previous time in half with enough practice and experience. However, it’s important that you don’t put too much pressure on yourself to get things right the first time.

It takes time to fully become accustomed to all of the tools we have featured today, and in all likelihood, you could even experience a slight increase in your video editing time until you become more familiar with the new process. Just keep at it, and as long as you always strive to be better than last time, nobody will be able to stop you.

Cool Things You Can Do With Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects is a video editing software that is popular all over the world, and the potential held within this one app is truly extraordinary. There is just so much you can do with Adobe After Effects, and this is precisely why it has managed to become one of the leading editing softwares in the world.

Moreover, if you are looking to improve your skills or just have a little fun, there are a ton of cool things you can do with Adobe After Effects, and this is what we are going to be telling you about today.

Motion Tracking

First things first; it is important to take a look at one of the most popular questions we get from newcomers about Adobe After Effects; what is motion tracking? Motion tracking encompasses a wide range of processes, and there are a multitude of different types of motion tracking.

However, at its core, motion tracking usually refers to a system that tracks the movement of objects and then utilises said data for further processing. This can be used for a variety of functions, but perhaps the most important and most widely-used application is that of animating 3D models.

This could range from animating humans, cars, birds, as well as any other process that requires any attention to detail, and this can allow game developers as well as videographers to make much more realistic scenes and settings.

Motion tracking is an absolutely essential skill to learn if you ever plan on creating any large-scale projects, and this is especially the case if you would like a career in game development or film.

Access All Sorts of Plugins

As you may already be aware, Adobe After Effects allows you to install a variety of plugins to enhance your editing capabilities. However, something that you may not be aware of is just how big of a difference said plugins can make.

Plugins can give you access to a whole range of after effects that would have otherwise been unobtainable for you, and as an extra bonus, this can also allow you to get an edge over all of your competition if you happen to be doing a project for university or trying to wow a potential employer with your Adobe skill-set.

There is no set list for what plugins you should or shouldn't get - this is entirely up to you. You should take the time to experiment and try out different plugins to see just how creative you can get; there truly is no limit to what you can do with plugins.

Utilize Keyframes

To most people, keyframes tend to sound a little confusing. When you start adding in fancy words like spatial position, opacity, or parameters for motion to beginners, this can make things seem overly confusing, and this is exactly why many people steer clear of keyframes right from the offset.

However, this is entirely unnecessary. To put things simply; keyframes can allow you to differentiate different aspects of a layer such as audio, video, as well as many other properties, and this can give you much more control over each section.

This can allow you to get much more precise with any projects you may be working on, and in addition to this, it can also save you a ton of time and effort in the long run if you need to edit a certain parameter on a specific section of video.

Animate Any Design Element

Being able to animate design elements can be an excellent tool that can extend your editing capabilities dramatically, and it will open up numerous opportunities for you that would have otherwise been out of reach.

This point can be taken in a myriad of ways - it could mean animating a menu, creating scrollable content, or simple form validation; there are a myriad of avenues animation can take. Having this skill in your toolkit is going to be of tremendous value, and if you are looking to up your Adobe After Effects game, then animation would be the perfect route to go.

If you choose to utilize all of the information we have given you in this article, you will come to find that you will be able to bend Adobe After Effects to your will, and the fun you can have with such extensive knowledge is truly limitless. Furthermore, you never truly know when any of the tools we have listed are going to come in handy - almost all of them are going to come in handy in projects and/or work tasks to some extent.

We hope your time with Adobe After Effects is incredibly fruitful, and if you continue to acquire knowledge at the rate you are now, you are going to be a master in no time.

Invideo Introduces IVA the world’s first Voice Assistant Video Editor

Users can now create videos without lifting finger, through personal AI enabled tool built right inside Invideo.io

InVideo.io, the video editing and creation platform has introduced the world’s first voice assistant video editor, an artificial intelligence (AI) based video editing feature through the platform’s inbuilt assistant - IVA (Intelligent Video Assistant). The latest addition will allow InVideo users to now edit video through voice commands.

Commenting at the launch, the CEO of InVideo, Sanket Shah said, “We are excited to introduce a feature that will change the way our users edit their video on InVideo. It’s a one-of-a-kind AI video maker that will operate on the voice command, thus making video editing possible without lifting a finger."

With the help of the voice assistant video editor, users can now easily create, edit, add music, define speed, suggest most relevant templates, and create many such voice commands, thus proving to be their best partner in video editing. For instance, users can just tell IVA to suggest the best audio for their created video with a simple voice command such as, “Hey IVA, find me the best audio track for this promo video”, and their work is done.

The latest addition takes the user experience a step forward, with a memory feature. Users can now have their favourite fonts, alignment styles, font colours and all other preferences saved in IVA’s memory, by just telling her once. “This is the way forward; welcome to the future of video editing.” Sanket added.

IVA’s skilled machine-learning algorithms and neural networking helps her generate better experience for her users. IVA's intelligence consists of 2Mn+ plus user data on video creation that includes more than 10 million use cases, 10 thousand font style choices, 10 platform preferences, proficiency calculations, targets compiling into thousands of lines of code that are constantly updating with every action of her users, to make their experience smoother and faster than ever.

Get on the waitlist for early access to the feature at iva.invideo.io

InVideo.io is the world's first watermark-free video editor that makes video creation easy, quick, and flexible online. The platform helps create professional and creative videos while cutting across barriers such as a user's geographical location, language, type of device they use, and even their internet speed. The application helps create and edit videos online with zero barriers.

InVideo’s vision reflects in the generous pricing plans and in the easy-to-use product with 4000+ video templates and 8mil+ strong media library, that includes the world's best stock footage online, like iStock.

About InVideo:
InVideo raised a $15 million Series A from Sequoia Capital India. Tiger Global, Hummingbird, RTP Global and Base also participated in the round that was closed in October 2020.
Furthermore, InVideo is the only company in India, today, with users from as many countries in the world (195+). The company is truly spearheading the growth of prosumer SaaS in India.

Telegram Messenger Launches In-App Video Editor on its Platform

App adds Two-step verification and an in-built easy cache management feature to its portfolio

• Telegram launches in-app video editor along with advanced video quality enhancement options


• Telegram introduces Two-step verification on its platform and easy Cache memory management tool


• The messenger app has also introduced animated stickers to insert in photos and videos in addition to new speaking GIFs for chats

Instant Messenger App, Telegram has launched a slew of new and advanced features including in-app Video Editor, two-step verification, animated stickers, speaking GIFs and more. The video enhancement feature will enable users to tweak videos in just two taps with dozens of parameters like saturation, brightness, etc. with a zoom-in option while drawing. Animated stickers can now be added to the photos and videos while editing which can later turn into GIFs, as well. The app has also added new attractive speaking GIFs for user chat experience enhancement.

Moreover from a data security perspective it has introduced Two-step verification for their users. Simply anyone can click on the Privacy and Security option to enable this Two-step verification security lock. Users need to set-up a new password by entering it twice followed a password hint. This feature would be responsible to protect the app data and securing accounts from cloning in future.



Now onward if this Two-step authentication password is enabled on a given account, anyone trying to log-in from a new device that person needs to know the password, along with the OTP.

The Telegram messenger has also provided a new Cache memory management tool directly to clean-up the storage as per the user requirement. An user need to go to the settings > Data and Storage > Storage usage to see how much storage is used by the files from Telegram divided into segments like Photos, Documents, Music, Voice/ Video messages, Animated stickers and other files. They can also select on a scale from when they want to keep their previous data ranging from 3 days to forever. This will only delete unassessed files which can also be re-downloaded later from the Telegram cloud. A user can also clear the local data base where texts of cached messages will be compressed to save space on the internal disk.

Flexible chat management folders, and a couple of new functional animations have been re-introduced for smooth and better user experience.

About Telegram - Telegram, a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed was launched in 2013. A device agnostic platform, it provides its users the capability of sharing unlimited files up to 1.5 GB setting itself apart from various other platforms. The open API and AI based BOT integration provides the messenger app a competitive edge over other platforms. Users can create groups for up to 200,000 people or channels for broadcasting to unlimited audiences.

Things to Know About the Best Online Video Converter

Suppose the trailer of a movie has been released and you want to watch it. But the file extension of the video is not allowing you to do so. In that case, you can convert the video in the format that is compatible with your phone. By doing that, you will be able to watch it. An online video converter named as Uniconverter is a swift as well as an easy digital video converter that helps in converting the videos. The usage of video converter is quite straight forward as well as simple.

You will be able to simply carry out the process by just clicking on the icon. By using an online video converter, you will able to edit a video as per your wish. The process of doing this is quite simple and you are free to use the converter in the laptop or on the smartphone. 

What are the difficulties that are faced while converting video?

Are you struggling to convert the videos or to edit the video that you have captured on your phone? Editing videos becomes quite complex if you are not using the best converter. You might need to come across a lot of problems after converting the videos that are communicated below. 

After editing the quality diminishes

You might come across issues like after editing the video, the quality of the video has deteriorated. Most of them have come across this issue and they don’t know how to rectify it. Quality issues include video has becoming blurry or pixilated or the sharpness is lost or the video is not playing smoothly in the device. 

Dead as well as stuck video pixel

The unwanted spots that you can see on the screen of the system are due to the dead as well as the stuck video pixel. The color spots such as green or red or blue are because of the stuck pixels which keep appearing when you start playing the video. It happens when enough power is not received by the transistor. The black spots that you can see while playing the video are because of the dead pixels and it happens when the RGB that is red green and blue sub-pixel is turned off. At times, the stuck pixels can also be fixed whereas the dead pixels are quite difficult to eliminate. 

Opt for Uniconverter – The best Video Converting tool 

The best possible way to get rid of the problems is to use a uniconverter. It is considered to be one of the best tools that help in converting the videos easily without affecting the quality. Some of the advantages that are communicated below will explain to you why you should use uniconverter over any other video converter. 

Faster converting speed

The uniconverter provides you with a quite faster speed when you convert a video. Within minutes, you will see that the video has been converted into the desired output that you have selected. The process is quite easy and you will be able to convert the videos within a short period. Because of the speed, uniconverter has become quite successful in converting the videos in the desired format. While converting the videos, the quality of the video will also be retained. While trying to convert a lot of videos, you will be astonished to see that the process gets completed within 10 minutes. But quality is not at all affected because of this reason. 

A User-friendly video converter

As the process to use the uniconverter is quite easy, it has become successful in competing with a lot of other video converters. The video converter allows converting the video in any format so that you can watch the video without facing any difficulty. You can also edit the video by just selecting the icons that are present in the converter. 

At a glance

There are a lot of video converters that are available in the market which are DivX Converter, VideoProc., HandBrake, etc. You can take a look at these converters but you will not like using it as you will come across a lot of issues. Those who are using uniconverter do not prefer to use any other video converter because of the speed and process to use it. Because of these properties, the uniconverter has become successful in becoming popular in a quite short time. The converter helps in converting the videos in any format such as WMV, MP4, MOV, 3GP, AVI, etc. It also allows downloading the videos so that you can watch it later and the process of downloading is also quite easy. People who love to watch videos for them uniconverter are considered to be the best video converter. You can use the converter anytime to convert the videos.

Wondershare Filmora - A Video Editor Geared Towards Beginner, Novice & Casual users

What is Filmora? It is a video editing software service built for starters who would like to spend less time understanding the basic functionalities of video editing software, and focus more on their task of creating and editing videos.

Wondershare Filmora video editor is elegant software geared towards beginner, novice and casual users. Anyone can learn to use this software, regardless of their skill level, and the end results look and sound fantastic. It has everything you need to make high-quality videos.

Here we will provide you with a detailed review of Filmora video editor by weighing its pros and cons.

Overview of Filmora benefits.This video editor is easy for anyone to learn, even if they have never edited a video before. This is because of the multiple features it comes jam packed with. Such as,

1. Split Screen. With this feature, users will be able to create videos with multiple clips and footage that are played in the same video simultaneously.


2. Advanced text editing functionality.Users will be able to lower the volume of the part of the clip where the text is shown, copy this part with the texts and effects included in it to other portions of the clip, as well as splitting some parts of the clip so users would be able to add texts. Hence, you won’t only be able to add text, but to enhance it with beautiful animations and effects.


3. Power tool. Within this tool, users will be able to change some aspects of a video such as the capability to apply tilt-shift if they would like to focus on one portion of the video and blur the other parts. The Mosaic option of the software, on the other hand, enables users blur specific parts of a video and adjust the percentage resulting to the increase or decrease of the square seen on the part where the blurring is applied.


4. Green screen. Green screeneffect is an advanced feature of overlays. You can easily achieve this with the help of Filmora by using some green screen video footage clips or creating a pure green background when shooting your video footage.


5. Multiple features. Such as, 4K resolution editing support, noise removal, GIF support, audio separation, video stabilization, layering, social import, speed control, colour grading presets and audio separation.

• Overview of Filmora limitations.It's essential to note that almost no app in the video editing software category will be a perfect solution able to match all the needs of all company types, sizes and industries. It is best to choose what suits your needs, justifies your requirements and delivers the desired output besides being cost effective, time efficient and user friendly. Though Filmora is one of the best editing software available for beginners, video editing veterans may want more control over their projects than this software can give, as explained here.
  
  
  
  • Lacks complicated functionality. It doesn’t have some of the advanced options for video editing, like closed captions and a surround sound configurator. If you want more advanced tools for more complex projects, you should look at the video editing programs that are designed for more experienced editors.