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What's New in Premiere Pro 23.6 (August 2023)

Premiere Pro 23.6 came out in August 2023 with better ARRIRAW color management and real-time ARRIRAW playback.

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ARRIRAW footage of a leaf playing in Premiere Pro

ARRIRAW in every sequence

ARRIRAW footage now gets better color management and new color settings. Adobe's goal: ARRIRAW that looks good in any sequence, whatever color space you edit in.

ARRIRAW footage of a leaf playing in Premiere Pro

Real-time ARRIRAW playback

Hardware acceleration and wider format support let ARRIRAW play back in real time, so you can edit the camera files smoothly.

This builds on earlier work in the same year: Premiere Pro 23.0 added support for the ARRI ALEXA 35, and 23.1 added GPU deBayering for ARRIRAW. If you shoot on ARRI cameras, 23.6 is the version of Premiere Pro 2023 to use.

ARRI ALEXA 35 cameras, which record ARRIRAW

Also in this update

  • Everything from earlier 2023 updates. Text-Based Editing, automatic tone mapping, Background Auto Save and the rest are all here.
  • What came next. The next big release was Premiere Pro 2024 in October 2023. See what's new in Premiere Pro 2024.

See every feature of the year in what's new in Premiere Pro 2023.

FAQ

Do I need 23.6 if I don't shoot ARRI?

Its new features are for ARRIRAW, but it also includes everything from earlier 2023 updates, like Text-Based Editing. If you stay on Premiere Pro 2023, use the newest 23.x version.

When did Premiere Pro 23.6 come out?

In August 2023. It was the last Premiere Pro 2023 update with new features.

Updating for the new ARRIRAW tools? See the plugins that work in Premiere Pro 2023.