PVC on Adobe releasing After Effects and Premiere Pro 25.2 for NAB bringing beta features to release

After Effects and Premiere Pro 25.2 released at NAB 2025

And of course with a subscription you get some generative AI features but if you use more than a limited amount you have to pay, so another money stream for Adobe.

I am actually most excited to try the Media Intelligence feature for plane language search of all your footage. And less need for assistant editors of course.

Premiere Pro Beta ads visual search!

From Jessica Nuñez at Adobe Community, Now in Beta: Search Panel Finds the shot faster with visual search.

Now in Premiere Pro (beta), AI-powered Media Intelligence automatically identifies visuals such as people, objects, location, camera angles, and more across thousands of clips in seconds. With the new Search panel, use natural language to find these visuals, plus spoken words in transcripts or clips with embedded metadata like shoot date, location, or camera type – all at the same time. The media intelligence analysis is faster than real time and runs locally on your computer, there is no internet connection required. Your media and searches are never used to train Adobe’s AI models. 

This new search can help you at any stage of your edit, whether you’re diving into organizing hours of new footage, or you need to quickly find that one shot you know you’ve seen before.  

This is awesome, and I can’t wait to try it out as this is AI truly helping an editor vs being something to replace an editor (though it will certain hasten less need for assistant editors).

And here is the page on Adobe for the new feature.

Premiere Pro December 2024 (25.1) update with H.264 enhancements

Adobe’s December 3rd, 2024 update December 2024 (25.1) is out. Check out the new features.

Rounded Corner Design for timeline clips, which is neither here nor there, though can be annoying for key frames.

Enhanced H.264 performance on Apple Ailicon and Windows: Upnto 4x increase in performance on Apple Silicon and 2x performance on Windows! Always welcome! Personally I tend to recomoress H.264 to ProRES for performance, but that isn’t possible with many online working methods, so this is certainly welcome.

And these fixes:

AUDIO:

  • The audio was not imported for MXF files with 32-bit audio.
  • The Progress panel sometimes showed duplicated “Enhancing Speech” processes.
  • Newly created Audio Tracks did not respect the Solo state of other tracks.
  • Attributes would not be correctly pasted across all audio channels of a clip on the timeline.
  • Clicking on a clip badge to open the Effect Controls or Essential Sound panels would open the panels on the mouse down.
  • Premiere Pro would sometimes crash when disabling Enhance Speech during processing on nested sequences.

CAPTIONS

  • When importing a custom caption preset which was previously saved with a certain style, the “Style” option could erroneously be reset to “None“.
  • Undoing a merge of multiple captions segments would not select all segments.

‘EDITING

  • The Time Ruler Numbers option for Timeline was disabled, and the shortcut did not work.
  • Some EDLs would fail to import.
  • The Progress Sheet was not docked with other panels when opened from the Windows menu.
  • Premiere Pro would hang when exporting some projects to XML.
  • Get Media File Properties for > Selectionwas disabled for Timeline clips.
  • Option or Alt + mouse wheel would not zoom the Timeline based on the cursor location.
  • Scaling below 50% of a still image in a timeline, when played in non-high quality, half or quarter resolution, could cause the image position to shift.

EFFECTS

  • Applying Morph Cut via an Adjustment Layer could cause a crash.
  • Crash observed when opening Old Premiere Pro (22.x) project containing Morph Cuteffect.
  • Some projects using the Morph Cuttransition could crash when using the GPU-accelerated renderer.

FORMATS

  • Observed artifacts during reverse playback of AVC Long GOP MXF media.
  • [Regression 24.4] Adaptive bit rate presets (High/Medium/low) under the video setting were showing the same bit rate during Export.
  • Disabling the hardware-accelerated decode preference did not work for ProRes media—playback would still use hardware acceleration with this option disabled.

MARKERS

  • Duplicate Frame Markers were not displayed on clips at minimum track height.
  • Duplicate Frame Marker colors could be out of order.
  • Delete gap in Timeline could result in Duplicate Frame Markers disappearing from other clips equal to the duration of the deleted Timeline.
  • When you drag a clip to the Timeline, different clips may have the same Duplicate Frame Marker color until you force update.
  • Duplicate frame indicators, clip markers, and clip ends could jitter when the timeline is scrolled while playing.

TEAM PROJECTS

  • Read-only sequences from Media Browserallowed changes to be made.

TEXT-BASED EDITING

  • Clip markers could sometimes not show or be added to audio-only clips in the Transcript tab of the Text panel.
  • With a project set to Read Only, it could be possible to drag markers in the Text panel’s Transcript.
  • Importing a corrected transcript could result in a timecode mismatch.
  • When working with English transcripts, the first word of a sentence could erroneously start with a lowercase letter.