Adobe's Video Stack Gets a Rebuilt Color Grader in Premiere and a Bigger Firefly Library

Adobe used its NAB 2026 press day to roll out a broad video update: a rebuilt color grading workspace inside Premiere Pro, two new Kling models in the Firefly Video Editor, and a Frame.io desktop client that mounts projects as if they were local drives. The full slate is detailed on Adobe's announcement blog, which covers changes across Firefly, Premiere, Frame.io, and After Effects.

The headline for editors is Color Mode, a dedicated grading workspace Adobe says was three years in development with input from hundreds of working editors during a private beta.

Color Mode in Premiere

Color Mode launches in public beta as part of Premiere 26.2, with general availability targeted for later in 2026. It is built as a grading environment nested inside Premiere, with a large program monitor, a clip grid for visualizing shot progression, and context-aware scopes with HUD overlays.

Adobe moved color processing to 32-bit floating-point precision, which the company says prevents clipping and preserves fidelity through stacked operations. Tonal controls expand from the traditional highlights, midtones, and shadows split to six luminance zones for finer placement of adjustments along the brightness range. Every adjustment runs on NVIDIA GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs, with real-time playback as the pitch.

The mode is available now to all Premiere subscribers in beta.

Firefly Video Editor Adds Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni

The Firefly Video Editor, which we covered when Adobe first opened the app to third-party models, now includes Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni. The pair joins Nano Banana 2, Veo 3.1, Runway Gen-4.5, and more than thirty other models available inside the editor.

Adobe positions Kling 3.0 as a general-purpose generator focused on storyboarding and audio-visual sync. Kling 3.0 Omni is the higher-control variant, adding character consistency and per-shot specification of duration, camera angle, and movement. We covered Kling 3.0's native 4K output and built-in audio when the model launched.

Two other additions sit alongside the model expansion:

• Enhance Speech is now available inside the Firefly Video Editor for automated dialogue cleanup, with controls for noise, reverb, and level management across speech, music, and ambience.

• Adobe Stock is integrated directly into the editor, putting over 800 million licensed assets inside the generation workflow.

Frame.io Drive and After Effects

Frame.io Drive is a new desktop application that lets users mount Frame.io projects directly on their computer and work with media as if it were stored locally, with real-time streaming and local caching. Enterprise rollout begins with other plans to follow.

After Effects 26.2 picks up an AI-powered Object Matte tool that automates rotoscoping and masking, which Adobe frames as a faster alternative to frame-by-frame work.

A Tighter Video Stack

Adobe's NAB package pulls more of the post workflow into a single set of applications. Color is moving out of dedicated grading apps and into the Premiere timeline. Generation is moving out of browser tools and into the Firefly editor. Media management is moving out of ingest-and-transfer into a local mount. Each piece keeps editors in one environment longer, with GPU acceleration handling the parts that used to require external software.