Premiere Pro got a major boost just prior to IBC with new motion capabilities, updates for audio editing and timeline playback, and additional improvements intended to make life a little easier for editors. Adobe also rolled out a new version of After Effects, also now in Version 25.5, and improvements to Frame.io.
Adobe has added 90-plus effects, transitions, and animations to Premiere Pro. (Source: Adobe)
In time for IBC, Adobe announced new additions to its postproduction toolset, as Premiere Pro 25.5 users will now have access to more than 90 new, modern effects, transitions, and animations resulting from Adobe’s recent acquisition of Film Impact, whose library is now seamlessly built into Premiere Pro. And, this is included at no extra cost. This and more are in service of Adobe’s efforts to offer a grounded, connected workflow, enabling users to spend more time doing creative tasks and less time on “the last-mile work” at the end.
According to Adobe, customers have been looking to maximize all the recent innovations across the Adobe ecosystem in order to be more productive. To this end, Adobe has been at work focusing on connecting the dots, so to speak.
Customers need to ideate fast, create content, and accelerate their editing and postproduction—all of which can be accomplished using various Adobe tools (Firefly Boards, Firefly Web App, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and Frame.io). Then, once they get to the final asset, enterprise users, particularly, need to scale quickly. To this end, Adobe is offering key feature releases that better connect this workflow, giving users more time in the storytelling and creativity aspects instead of in the last-mile piece. The key, says Adobe, is centralizing work-in-progress files, from planning and preproduction all the way to approval, delivery, and playback. And that is where Frame.io comes in, acting as a single source for the creative content, collaboration, and workflow.
(Source: Adobe)
In its effort to deliver a strong connected video platform, Adobe kicked things off with several releases across its product lines, introduced at IBC 2025, with several goals in mind: to enable users to ideate and align concepts fast through third-party partner models, to accelerate postproduction, to scale video content, and to centralize work in progress.
This is, after all, IBC, so more attention was devoted to new features for Premiere Pro 25.5. These include:
Among the latest features and improvements top of mind for professional motion designers in After Effects 25.5 is the new Quick Offset tool, which allows users to highlight and shift the positions of multiple keyframes or layers with one simple click-and-drag. Users can also adjust the temporal relationships between layers or keyframes faster than before. Zooming to magnify a comp for detailed work is now smoother, as is navigation inside the comp viewer, making fine-tuning easier. And, with caching, preview and playback is faster.
Frame.io is not without improvements, either, with new features that provide more user control, including the ability to organize assets with account-level metadata, automate creative workflows with APIs and low-code/no-code connectors, and add captions in seconds, as well as enterprise-grade security for sharing.
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