Premiere Pro versus DaVinci Resolve.
Here are five reasons that Premiere Pro is better than DaVinci resolve.
And you're really going to want
to stick around for number five because it's a spicy, hot take number one.
Unlike DaVinci, Resolve Premiere Pro has a truly customizable interface.
If you want to set up your panels in literally any orientation
Premiere Pro lets you do that out of the box.
Adobe gives you presets for how these panels can be laid out,
but you can literally click and drag them wherever you want.
So if you don't want your video preview in the top right,
you can move it to the top left or the bottom left.
It doesn't matter because Premiere gives you an insane amount of control
for how you can orient your panels and you can even unlock them and have them
floating on a second screen if you wanted to.
You have a ton of customizability there.
On the other hand, resolve only lets you toggle panels off and on
and you cannot move them around.
So from a customizability standpoint, then something that really
professional editors are going to appreciate Premiere Pro wins.
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and I feel like a winner getting to make videos like this for you.
Also at this point, I'm sure you may have already started to type a comment
saying Matt Da Vinci is so much better.
Well, don't worry.
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Back to stirring the pot here.
The second reason
premiere is better than DaVinci Resolve All comes down to a little program
that Adobe requires you to install whenever you install Premiere,
and that program is called Adobe Media Encoder.
Yes, one of my biggest personal annoyances about resolve
is that whenever you queue up a video or multiple videos to render an export,
you are going to be stuck waiting for all of those videos to render,
leaving you unable to do any more editing
in resolve until the export is finished.
That doesn't happen with Premiere Pro
because Adobe Media Encoder is a completely separate program.
You can send any video file that you want to export to media encoder
where your computer will use that program to render your video, leaving you
free to continue to edit the same project or open up a different project.
It doesn't matter.
This can be a huge productivity boost and I'm really hoping that in the future
Resolve updates their software to allow you to continue editing
while a video is being rendered.
Reason three Now the premiere pro is better than DaVinci Resolve
is that it has a much easier to use and simpler to use.
Workflow for how projects are saved and moved between computers.
This feature relates to the core way that both of these editing softwares
work with Premiere Pro using a simple dot PR
pro j project file to store your edited video.
This is very similar to using a duck exe file to store
a microsoft Word document or a dot XXS file to store an Excel spreadsheet.
In essence, if you have this dot PR pro j file,
you can edit your video and if you want to move your project file
to another computer or send it to someone else, that is as simple as copying
and pasting this file to a hard drive or sending it to someone else via Dropbox.
this system that Premiere Pro uses is very traditional,
and if you've ever used a computer before, it's pretty easy to understand.
DaVinci resolve.
On the other hand,
it uses a database system to store all of your edits,
which has plenty of benefits, don't get me wrong.
But if you want to transfer your project from one computer to another,
it is a bit more work.
And you also have to think about things like backing up your database
from time to time,
which you never really need to think about with Premiere Pro anyways, Reason four
we have two left and like I said earlier, the last reason is spicy.
So hold on a second reason for that Premiere Pro is better than DaVinci
Resolve is that it has been around longer and there is more support
for more plug ins.
This is an area where I'm happy to say that resolve is starting to catch up.
But for a long time,
Premiere Pro has been known as a software that's easy to create plug ins for.
And so whenever you see companies like sounds Ripe offer a licensing
plug in for video editing software
that will enable you to download songs through edit directly into your software.
Who did they first create a plug in for Premiere Pro?
Likewise, there's a very popular plug in that made waves in 2023 called Auto Pod
that will edit your podcasts and even your full wedding ceremonies,
which I made it tutorial about that
I will link to Up in the corner and down in the video description, which
editing platform did Auto Pod first make a plug in for Premiere Pro?
It's simple.
If you want more plug ins, the odds are that
they are going to be on Premiere Pro, But like I said, I'm thankful
that's looking like resolve is starting to catch up in this aspect.
Lastly, we have made it to Reason five that
Premiere Pro is better than DaVinci Resolve.
I promised you a spicy hot take and here it is.
DaVinci Resolve is known for having the best color grading tools
because it got its start as a professional color grading software
that eventually turned into an editing software.
But I would argue that while DaVinci Resolve
has more professional color grading tools, Premiere Pro has more user
friendly color grading tools that are better for quick fixes,
especially if you are a beginner video editor.
Hear me out.
Okay, If you want to color grade a video clip.
In Premiere Pro, the first thing that you see is a super
basic color grading panel with sliders pulled directly from Adobe Lightroom
because so many filmmakers got their start as photographers.
And this is a very familiar interface.
Changing your brightness and contrast and color temperature
are only a simple click and drag away.
And for most people that is all that they need to color correct and color grade
their video.
This setup is not intimidating at all for color grading.
Open up resolve on the other hand, and while you have vastly more control,
there are no easy to use in-your-face sliders in sight.
No, you get to learn an entirely new interface
that looks different from any other editing interface you've ever used.
Pull up a chair, kids, because it's time to talk about nodes.
Let me put it this way.
Once you take the time to learn the color page in Da Vinci resolve,
you will be a wizard that can do basically anything with the colors in your videos
and I absolutely love it as a professional, but
it is overkill for a lot of people, which is why these simpler
and easier to use color grading interface of Premiere Pro is better.
You can fight about this, take in the comments down below,
and if you're still mad and upset, remember I have another entire video
coming out next week that it literally is the A.I.
version of this video where I'm going to share with you
five reasons that Da Vinci Resolve is better than Premiere Pro.
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