- Hey it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video.
Now Adobe Premier Pro and Final Cut X
are both great pieces of editing software
but which one is right for you.
Here's 12 things you need to know
before you make your call.
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Now personally I do use Adobe Premier Pro
and Final Cut X almost every week.
All of the videos on this channel are now edited
in Final Cut Pro whereas all my corporate work,
promotional videos, sales videos, right up to documentaries
are all edited in Adobe Premier.
Each has its own strengths and weaknesses
so to help you decide which is best for you,
I'll run through the six things I love about each of them
and why I use one over the other for different projects.
Cost differences aside this will give you enough information
to decide which features are most important for you
and which editing software you should choose.
So let's start out by looking at six things
that I love about Final Cut X.
Now these are in no particular order
but the first one hands down
is the ability to edit 4K footage just seamlessly.
It's almost like some magic sorcery is going on
because no other editing software compares
to how well Final Cut edits 4K video footage.
I've been able to edit 4K video files
off external hard drives just using a Macbook Pro.
Now that's insane.
If this was using Adobe Premier you'd have
to set the quality down to a quarter or even an eight
and even then playback may not be anywhere near
as smooth or seamless as it is in Final Cut
so that's a massive plus and really it's due
to all the background rendering that takes place
in Final Cut which has a little bit of a downside
in that it can chew up a lot of your hard drive space
but the benefit is the power and the performance
that you have and just makes your editing process seamless.
Number two is that Final Cut Pro doesn't drain
your battery life so quick if you're working on a laptop
which for me is awesome.
I do a lot of work on planes, I travel around a lot.
It was actually the reason I bought a Mac
in the first place, or Macbook Pro in the first place
was so that I can edit on the plane.
Now a lot of laptops will say that they've got
huge battery life but the moment that you open
anything that's processor or GPU intensive
then the battery life just goes
out the window incredibly quick.
Even installing Adobe Premier and running that on Mac
there's no optimization there
so your battery life, you're lucky to get a couple of hours
but Final Cut Pro the battery life on it,
it's optimized to work on the systems.
It's just incredible how long the battery actually lasts
for editing video and for that as far as I'm concerned
it's second to none
and number three I love the powerful motion titles
that you can add in and animations that you can add in
to your editing projects and edit them live
on the screen without having to take them into
something like Adobe After Effects and edit everything
in a separate program.
What you can get with Final Cut
is these Apple Motion templates that you can purchase
on places like VideoHive that drop directly
into your timeline that you can edit the text
and customize up without leaving your timeline.
That's been a real game changer for editing
even this video.
All the titles that you're seeing in here
are all done inside of Final Cut
so that's pretty awesome it saves a heap of time
on rendering and also not needing
to have any other software installed or purchased.
Now while you can get titles like this in Adobe Premier
in order to edit them you'd normally need software
like Adobe After Effects and use the Adobe Dynamic Link
to talk between the two programs.
So if you just want to make a simple text change
or change your titles throughout your entire video
then it just means you gotta keep re-linking
and going into Adobe After Effects, editing your titles
and then coming back to Adobe Premier
to make any further adjustments.
So all of this in Final Cut is seamless
and is literally click of a button.
Number four is the magnetic timeline.
Now I've got to admit, I absolutely hated this
when I first started using it after coming from Premier
but the magnetic timeline is incredibly powerful
and it makes working Final Cut really quick.
So that the magic timeline does
is it gives you a set storyline
and in that storyline you can pick up pieces
and move them around and it will automatically
close and open gaps and shuffle everything around
automatically for you in your timeline
but what it does beyond that is it keeps all of the clips
that are associated with the clips in that storyline
so if you got the layers above it,
you can link them to that story clip
so that if you move that story clip left or right
or move it around in your timeline then all
the associated or all the attached clips and layers
and effects and sounds will all stick with that clip
so that's pretty awesome.
Now number five.
I really like the import tool in Final Cut.
The way that you can preview your files
whether it's a video or audio
you can actually see them and play them back
and hear them before you actually click that import button.
In Adobe Premier Pro you just presented with a file browser
just to pick the files that you'd like to import
whereas with Final Cut if you can actually go through
and look at the clips, you're only importing the clips
that you've actually want to have in your project
instead of maybe importing a whole folder knowing that
the files that you want are somewhere in there.
So again it just makes the editing process a bit quicker
if you're not looking to import a heap of footage
and if you're looking for specific clips.
So that brings us to number six.
Now number six is the render times.
The render times on Final Cut Pro are just insane.
In a lot of cases for me and the work
that I'm doing in there the render times are non-existent
because it's all done in the background.
So what that means for me with these videos
is when I hit file, share to, YouTube
it actually just starts uploading straight away.
There is no export, there's no waiting for it to render out
and save to your hard drive and then upload.
The upload starts as soon as I hit share to YouTube.
So that is just, that's I can't even explain how awesome
that is because if you've done
any sort of video editing before
then you can waste so much time while you're waiting
for your computers to save your video files.
Now when I was editing these YouTube videos
in Adobe Premier they take on average 40 minutes,
50 minutes to export and then start uploading
so at least this way if there is an issue
with the video file, I'm playing it back
I'm not happy with it, there's a minor change
I wanna make.
it's a no brainer.
It's no hassle to jump in, make the quick change
and upload another version
instead of having to wait 40 minutes, 50 minutes
to be able to see if there is an issue with the video.
Not that there should be.
Okay, so that's enough with Final Cut Pro.
Let's look at the six things
that I like about Adobe Premier Pro
and the first one is that it's cross platform compatible
which means that it works on both Windows and on Mac.
For me that's a huge thing.
I personally hate being tied to an environment
to be Mac only or PC only.
I like the ability to be able to jump
between different computers if there's a better PC
that comes out that's actually gonna make
my workload quicker I wold definitely consider it
and some of the work I do is on PC.
So having the software that is exactly the same across both
of the major platforms is a huge benefit
and it makes it easier to collaborate with other people,
share projects around but that's number two.
So we jump straight to it.
Number two is that it's easier to transfer your files
between different editors.
I'm actually working on a project right now
that has two editors that are working in Windows,
I'm on a Mac and I have another editor
that's also on a Mac.
So there's four editors in this project,
two Windows, two Mac.
We're able to seamlessly transfer the project file,
just the project file 'cause we've all got copies
of the footage and it's a no brainer.
It re-links instantly on all the systems.
So having the same software on both Mac and PC,
but also having it easily transferable between editors
is just amazing.
Now transferring projects externally and working
with other editors externally and moving between systems
is one thing but Adobe Premier Pro also lets you
work over a network and import network footage
and actually open a networked project file
which is something that Final Cut doesn't use.
So right here we have a shared network storage
and all the project files are stored on there.
So Adobe Premier Pro will actually let me open
and run a project file over the network whereas
Final Cut won't.
So for any office or a team environment
that's pretty powerful.
So now on to number three, and that's color correction.
Adobe Premier Pro has fantastic color correction options,
capabilities, whatever you wanna call it.
While Final Cut does have color correction built in,
obviously, all good editing software will,
the color correction that's in Adobe Premier Pro
is next level and not even by a little bit.
It's probably multiple levels up.
It is awesome.
It's also something that they're updating all the time,
adding new features and adding more powering behind it
and it's got to the point where it's fantastic.
The fourth thing that I like about Adobe Premier Pro
is the amount of export presets that there are.
There are presets for everything.
Right down from your lowest resolution videos
right up to to a full digital cinema file
that you can use to export and take directly
to a cinema to play it there.
So to have that built in
and to also have all the cueing
so you can cue up multiple versions
and to even save your cues
so that you can use them all the time
is incredibly powerful.
Number five is the integration with other Adobe programs.
So the integration with Adobe After Effects
with Photoshop, with Audition.
It's just seamless integration so that you're able
to open and collaborate and quickly work
across the Adobe range of projects seamlessly
from your timeline.
And that then leads us to number six
which is the file management.
Personally I love the way that Adobe Premier
handles and deals with your files
and your media management.
So all your assets or your video files,
your graphics, your music.
The way that you can bring those in and organize them
into bins and folder structure.
I think personally, it absolutely dwarfs
what you've got in regards to events and projects
in Final Cut.
It's so much easier and much more logical
as far as I'm concerned,
the way that Adobe Premier manages its files
and this really comes into play
when you're working on big projects
because it is imperative that you have
all your folder structures and everything set
in a logical way so that not only you can use it
but potentially any other editors can jump on
and find everything and pick up and get running
on the project straight away.
So this is something that Adobe Premier does really well
and it also then helps with any backups or archiving
of projects and also transferring projects
between different computers
and different editors as well.
So depending on your work flow some of these factors
will be important to you
or they may not matter at all.
So as for which editing software you should choose,
choose the one that ticks the most boxes for you.
The end of the day, they're both great pieces
of editing software.
As I said, I use both of them every week.
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