Adobe Premiere Pro 25.5 includes a newly integrated effects library
[16:01 Tue,9.September 2025 by blip]
With the new version 25.5 of Premiere Pro, the focus is on visuals: over 90 new transitions, (grading) effects, and typo/graphic animations have been added and are intended to be applied and customized within Premiere. Users should no longer have to resort to plugins or After Effects for a stylish video.
Premiere Pro 25.5
The following video showcasing the new features also highlights some improvements in working on the timeline, which, however, were already introduced with the summer update v.25.4 (waveform adjustments, etc.).
Furthermore, Adobe emphasizes wanting to offer a more responsive timeline editing experience. Specifically, they have set the goal of starting each playback in less than a tenth of a second, so that editing proceeds smoothly and without stuttering. Ideally, for every Premiere Pro user, the waiting time between pressing the play button and the start of the video playback should be barely noticeable. Already with this version (or probably already with the recently released v25.4), great progress should have been made in this regard, and playback will continue to be a high priority in the future to achieve the set goal.
Over 90 new transitions, effects, and animation templates
Following the acquisition of the effects forge Film Impact, their plugins have been seamlessly integrated - this means that over 90 new GPU-accelerated transitions, effects, and animation templates are available in Premiere Pro at no extra cost. They can be found via the Effects panel as well as via the "Film Impact Dashboard" in the Extensions menu; here, there is also a live preview of each tool.
When applying them, you should have complete creative control - according to Adobe, every effect parameter can be freely adjusted. Changes should be displayed in real time. If you don't want to get involved yourself, you can let chance take its course and automatically create any number of variations for each effect via a "Surprise-me" button.
The new video transitions include, among others, dissolves, blurs, wipes, earthquakes, interference, distortions, VHS glitches, chaos, kaleidoscope, as well as 3D transitions.
Glows, blurs, and echoes from the new effects library can be used for creative grading, including for photorealistic bokeh, volumetric rays, halos, and highlights. Vignettes are included that can be adapted to any desired shape. To adjust colors, red, green, and blue channels can be shifted independently of each other, for example, to correct recordings in fluorescent light. The color effects are said to offer curve editors, color selection tools, chromatic aberration, custom blend modes, and much more.
Animating text, videos, and graphics with the Film Impact templates should be as easy as dragging and dropping a transition. Static graphics can be quickly set in motion with motion transitions that gradually build up, pop up, wobble, or spray light. Without keyframing, 2D text can be transformed into animated 3D graphics with shadows, depth, and realism, and logo animations can be created just as easily.
Perspective: new effect workflows
According to Adobe, the newly integrated effect tools are just the first step towards a new effects workflow in Premiere Pro. A foretaste of what will change in this regard is already given by the current beta. This contains already new, object-based masking tools, which are said to make a switch to After Effects unnecessary for many tasks. AI-based, image parts can be quickly masked and tracked during editing.
It seems that the separation between Premiere Pro as an editing application and After Effects for motion graphics will soften.
After Effects 25.5
Speaking of which, the update of After Effects 25.5 is rather moderate in scope. New here, however, is a highly practical Quick Offset. This allows you to mark and move the positions of multiple keyframes or layers with a simple click and drag. The temporal relationships between layers or keyframes can thus be adjusted faster and more reliably than before, without having to click and move each layer individually.
With the update, zooming and navigating in the composition viewer should also be much smoother; optimizing and fine-tuning pixels becomes easier. Improvements in caching should also be noticeable, which, according to Adobe, ensure faster preview and playback.
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