Adobe has upgraded Premiere with features designed for YouTube Shorts. Discover how they can level up your vertical videos.

Adobe Premiere is rolling out a wave of new tools and workflow updates designed specifically to support YouTube Shorts creators, marking one of the company’s biggest pushes yet into short-form video production. As Shorts continue to dominate YouTube’s growth and creator culture, Adobe is positioning Premiere as an essential editing hub for anyone looking to produce polished, fast-paced vertical content.

In response to creator demand, Adobe has introduced streamlined vertical-video editing features that make producing Shorts far easier than in previous versions. Users can now switch project aspect ratios with a single click, automatically reframe widescreen footage for mobile viewing, and use updated templates that speed up everything from captions to transitions to social-ready graphics.

One of the most talked-about improvements is the enhanced Reframe tool, which uses Adobe’s AI technology to keep subjects centered and in-frame when converting horizontal footage to vertical. This has become especially useful for creators repurposing longer YouTube videos into shorter formats.

Adobe has also introduced faster export presets designed specifically for YouTube Shorts. These automatically optimise resolution, file size, and encoding settings for the platform, cutting down the manual setup time that often slowed down creators producing multiple clips per day.

For newer editors, Adobe is expanding in-app guidance and adding more beginner-friendly effects, sound packs, and motion graphics tailored to short-form storytelling. The company says this is part of a broader effort to level the playing field so that smaller channels can achieve the same clean, high-impact look that established creators have built their audiences on.

The updates comes as Shorts quickly becomes one of YouTube’s most important features, driving billions of daily views and offering creators new monetisation pathways. With more channels adopting a “Shorts-first” strategy, Adobe clearly sees an opportunity to bring professional-grade editing into a space that has traditionally been dominated by mobile apps.

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