What's coming in Premiere Pro 2025(!)

Not to be outdone by the recent release of DaVinci Resolve 19, Adobe is showcasing its latest updates & features for upcoming Premiere Pro 2025(!).

It’s great to see that some of the Davinci Resolve features have made into Premiere Pro, like a crop tool as a part of clip properties, instead of applying an effect. Competition is beautiful thing.

I was apprehensive about this emphasis on color management in Premiere Pro until I learned that Alexis Van Hurkman worked on it. If you are unfamiliar with his works, his book is a must-read for any colorists.

Premiere Pro v24.3 is out (& AI preview!)

Adobe released new version of Premiere Pro and Premiere Gal did an excellent overview of its new features, as always.

However, Adobe seems to be more interested in teasing the Generative AI-everyone’s favorite tech buzzword, similar to what it did within Photoshop.

The demo looks promising, but will it be production ready? If you used the generative fill of Photoshop as of today, you know the answer.

It may be good enough initially as an ideation, a preview, or a quick fix for minor issues that required time or money. Generative AI is ultimately another tool in visual effects, but people seems to struggle with the idea of it, let alone define its usage beyond generating pretty images that look almost real. (uncanny valley, anyone?) More time & money is required for the development of this technology, more than the adoption at this stage in my opinion.

On a related note, I always thought that morph cut was a generative AI function; it is creating frames where there were none. And it waddles in the morally gray area like creating a Frankenbite, especially in documentaries, but not many seems to be bothered by it. I foresee this will happen with the generative AI when it’s more widely adapted and used.

In conclusion, we’re entering a whole new world/era of visual storytelling where you can’t be certain the image you see is 100% real, just like when Photoshop was introduced decades ago.

How Animated Movies Are Edited (featuring Batman)

Editor Andy Young presents informative & hilarious takes on how he utilized Adobe Productions for Premiere Pro to edit the feature animation, Merry Little Batman. It’s a must-watch if you are an editor aspiring to edit animations like yours truly.

I’m little surprised that he didn’t mention other Adobe programs like Photoshop or After Effects, that are often cited as another strong consideration to edit in Premiere Pro, thanks to Dynamic Link.

However, his interview on editing Harley Quinn season 3 do mention them, so he may have left that out in this presentation to focus on the editing parts.

Latest Updates to Premiere Pro & Avid Media Composer

The end of 2022 is upon us, but the post (software updates) don’t stop!

You can learn about the latest updates to Premiere Pro & Avid Media Composer at your leisure with the following videos.

As always, Premiere Gal has a great overview of the latest updates to Premiere Pro.

Avid pushed a great update for Media Composer before the end of 2022.

Jack, the Avid Assistant has more detailed look into the latest Avid Media Composer update.