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1. Text-Based Editing
Premiere transcribes your clips, and you build your rough cut from the text. Search for a word, select the lines you like and insert them into your sequence. Then cut, copy and paste in the sequence transcript, and the Timeline changes to match.
It's best for interviews, podcasts, documentaries and talking-head videos, where finding the right sound bite used to take hours. When you're done, the transcript can become your captions. It arrived in Premiere Pro 23.4 in May 2023.
2. Automatic tone mapping
Shoot on an iPhone, a log camera and an HDR camera, then drop it all in one standard Rec. 709 sequence. Automatic tone mapping converts the HDR and log clips so they look right, without blown-out highlights and without LUTs.
It's on by default, so most people get the benefit without doing anything. You can turn it off in Sequence Settings. Added in version 23.2, February 2023.
3. Background Auto Save
Auto Save used to pause your work while it saved. Now it runs in the background, and backups can be saved as often as every minute. You get more restore points and no interruptions.
A new dashboard also shows every background process in one place, so you can see what Premiere is working on. Both came in version 23.4.
4. Upgrade captions to graphics
Captions from Speech to Text can now become graphics. Once a caption is a graphic, you can add effects and transitions and animate it with keyframes, which is great for social videos with bold on-screen words.
The words stay editable in the Program Monitor and the Text panel. Select the caption on the Timeline and find the command in the Graphics and Titles menu. Added in version 23.1, December 2022.
5. Bulk edit titles on the Timeline
Change the font on twenty lower thirds? Select all the title clips on the Timeline and change the font, size, color or background in one go. New alignment controls line up text and shapes with one click, and strokes can now sit inside, centered or outside.
These came with Premiere Pro 23.0, the same release that removed the Legacy Titler.
6. Send to Media Encoder in one shortcut
Choose File > Export > Send to Adobe Media Encoder, or press Option+Shift+M (macOS) or Alt+Shift+M (Windows). Your sequence goes straight to the Media Encoder queue, and you keep editing while it exports.
Export mode also shows your last three presets at the top of the Preset menu, so repeat exports take two clicks. Both came in version 23.3, April 2023.
7. Sequence Locking for Team Projects
When two editors share a Team Project, Premiere now locks a sequence while someone works on it. Everyone else sees who is editing and gets a view-only copy, so nobody overwrites anybody. A Publish button shares your changes, and a Changes column shows what's new.
Version 23.1 added locking, and 23.2 let you keep editing offline and publish when you're back online.
Also new in Premiere Pro 2023
- Faster Motion Graphics templates. After Effects templates use Multi-Frame Rendering (23.0).
- GPU accelerated Lumetri scopes. Smoother playback with scopes open (23.0).
- Reset options at launch. Clear preferences, cache and plugin cache from a start-up dialog (23.2).
- Better masking. Many points on a path and 800% or 1600% zoom (23.1).
- Metadata & Timecode Burn-in. Clip info and timecode on your video (23.5).
- New languages. Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish (23.2) and Danish (23.4) for transcription.
- ARRIRAW upgrades. GPU deBayering (23.1), color management and real-time playback (23.6).
Thinking of installing 2023? Our guide on whether to update to Premiere Pro 2023 covers the requirements and what changes, and the full list of new features has everything else, version by version.
FAQ
What is the best new feature in Premiere Pro 2023?
Text-Based Editing. It turns finding sound bites and building a rough cut into reading and selecting text. It arrived in version 23.4.
Was automatic tone mapping in Premiere Pro 23.0?
No. It came in version 23.2 in February 2023, and it's on by default from then on.
Do BetterFX and EaseFlow work in Premiere Pro 2023?
Yes. All our plugins work in Premiere Pro 2021 to 2027.
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