Adobe has released the latest update to its editing program, Adobe Premiere Pro. Version 25.5 of the application now includes more than 90 new and modern effects, transitions and animations.
Film Impact
Adobe recently acquired Film Impact, and that company’s high-value library of effects is now included with Premiere Pro as part of your subscription plan. There are modern transitions and cinematic effects, as well as text and graphic animations. You can also customize every parameter of the effects for complete creative control. The effects are all GPU-accelerated. This means that they play back in real time as soon as you drag and drop them onto your timeline.
Transitions
The Film Impact transitions include dozens of new dissolves, blurs, and wipes, which Adobe says are “smooth, rich, and elegant”. If you want something a little rougher around the edges, there are also earthquake, glitch, distortion, VHS damage, and chaos transitions.
In addition, there are more extreme options, such as the kaleidoscope transition. These may have more limited use cases, but are undeniably eye-catching.
Color grading
The Film Impact effects include a range of options to enhance the color grading of your videos. There are glows, blurs, and echoes to help you add photorealistic bokeh, volumetric rays, and glowing halation to your clips. You can also apply vignettes that warp to any shape you desire and independently shift red, green, and blue channels to color correct for fluorescent lighting. Also, you can add realistic camera shake to your tripod shots.
Animation
The new Film Impact options make animating text, video, and graphics as easy as dragging and dropping a transition. You can also keep working in Premiere Pro without needing to go to After Effects for your motion graphics work. You can make static graphics grow, pop, wiggle, and sweep light across your titles. It’s also simple to turn static 2D text into a 3D animated motion graphic with shadows, depth, and realism in seconds. Plus, you can clone a logo with built-in animations to create complex motion graphics in seconds.
Surprise Me
One of the most fun features of the Film Impact effects in Premiere Pro is the Surprise Me button. When you click it, you can preview endless variations of your effect or transition to give you new ideas and inspiration.
Other new features
Adobe says that version 25.5 of Premiere Pro delivers a snappier timeline and smoother editing with GPU-acceleration. Now your audio waveforms remain visible when dragging a clip or performing common edit tasks, like ripple/roll edits or rate stretch. You can also see keyframes and markers alongside the waveform while you move the clip. Additionally, you can add or adjust multiple fades at the same time. Simply select all the clips at once to apply fades or cross-fades to them all.
What we think
Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful and well-respected video editing program. However, it has historically been aimed at film and TV work. As a result, it has lacked the eye-catching and easy-to-use transitions and effects beloved by social media content creators. Adobe is clearly appealing to that market with the new Film Impact effects library. It’s also good to see that the company is continuing to improve playback speed with enhanced GPU-acceleration. Adobe Premiere Pro isn’t cheap, and you have to commit to a subscription model, but the new effects and features might make it more appealing to the content creator market.
Pricing and availability
Version 25.5 of Premiere Pro is available now to anyone with a subscription. For a full list of new features, check out Adobe’s website.
