An interview from the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas with Francis Crossman at the Adobe booth. Adobe's mission is to empower everyone to create. Wherever you are in your creative journey, and whatever kind of video you make, Adobe is built for you.

At NAB 2026, Adobe debuted the introduction of brand-new Color Mode in Premiere, a first-of-its-kind color grading experience built from the ground up specifically for editors.

Editing video used to be defined by the cut. These days, if you're an editor, you're probably doing everything yourself from end to end, including the hardest part of the workflow: color. For too long, proper color grading meant one of two things: hand it off to a professional colorist or fight your way through applications that pull you out of your edit entirely and force you to study out-of-reach pro-colorist tools that were never designed for you.

To solve that pain, Adobe released Color Mode in Premiere (beta), a first-of-its kind color-grading experience purpose-built for the way editors actually think and work. For the first time, professional color tools meet you where you are, making color grading feel like a natural, intuitive extension of the edit itself.

With Color Mode your video is always front and center. You use controls that respond the way you expect them to and a system that grows with your ambition. Whether you want to make a few quick adjustments or go as deep as the footage demands, Color Mode meets you there. Editors who have used Color Mode experience a new sensation — they actually enjoy color grading! The experience invites curiosity, experimentation, and play, rather than demanding expertise before you can make a single creative decision.

For the first time, editors have full visibility into how color flows through their project at every level. Every decision is visible, every grade is organized in the way you think about it, and the relationship between your work and your footage is always exactly what you intended.

Color Mode was built in direct collaboration with hundreds of working editors through an extensive private beta, and it enters public beta today for all Premiere subscribers, with general availability later in 2026. Dive in today.

Beyond Color Mode, the new Premiere 26.2 delivers a range of improvements designed to speed up your workflows, including new Film Impact–powered effects and transitions, Object Masking with Sharp and Smooth edge modes, and a searchable Sequence Index panel for navigating complex timelines. They've also made relinking offline media faster and smarter, with improved path tracking that works across drives and platforms.

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