Adobe has updated Premiere and After Effects with features that are designed to streamline editing and motion workflows.
Premiere
There is now faster AI masking, new effects, smarter audio controls, and tighter connections to Stock and Firefly.
- Global Audio Mute lets you silence audio across the entire app in one click. Marker Search lets you pull up any marker by color or name across every open project.
- With Channel Blur, Gradient, and Noise FX, you can handle precise compositing or add organic animated texture right inside the timeline.
- 3D Spinback and Slide transitions give you dynamic motion with professional-grade easing controls built directly into your editing workflow.
- Single Word Captioning puts you in control at the word level without disturbing the broader caption block.
- The new Stock Panel Checkout lets you preview and license Adobe Stock assets without leaving Premiere. When you send multiple assets into a project through Firefly Boards, a sequence is created for you automatically.
- Object Mask is now faster and more refined. You get softer, more natural masks, and if media goes offline and gets relinked, you can regenerate the mask without starting over.
- The Sequence Index Panel gives you long-form edit control in one place. A/V Display Mode shows video and audio waveforms together in the Source Monitor, so complex timelines are easier to read and navigate.
After Effects
After Effects’ latest updates were designed to remove the tedious work that slows you down.
- Object Matte reimagines rotoscoping with four AI-powered tools, Object Selection, Quick Selection, Selection Brush, and Refine Edge, replacing the brush-only Roto Brush with the same AI precision already available and loved in Premiere.
- 3D in After Effects is getting a major upgrade, bringing your motion design work closer to full 3D production. You can now add real surface depth with Displacement Maps, apply cinematic Depth of Field across models, meshes, text, and shape layers, and use scripting APIs for Parametric Meshes for more control over complex scenes.
- You can now import SVG files directly into After Effects as editable shape layers, with gradients, strokes, and transparency all intact. And with a new copy-paste workflow from Illustrator, you can bring vector content across without any conversion.
Lightroom
Rolling out next week, there are also new additions to Lightroom:
- Assisted Culling helps photographers be more efficient when selecting their best images, with new tools like Face View and customizable filters to give you more control.
- Photo to Video on Lightroom desktop brings your images to life, transforming any photo into polished b-roll or reels with AI-generated motion powered by Firefly and Google Veo.
- AI Sharpen brings Topaz Labs’ Noise-Aware Sharpen model directly into Lightroom, no exporting required, to recover fine details.
- All Sony RAW formats on the recently announced Sony a7R VI are now supported across Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Camera Raw.
