- Adobe's cross platform video editor Premiere Rush
or Project Rush makes big promises
but how does it stack up against the competition
and is it the best mobile video editor around?
Here's our Adobe Rush review
with everything you need to know.
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Adobe Premiere Rush is the newly released
and much hyped cross platform video editing app from Adobe.
It was originally codenamed Project Rush
and it promises a seamless editing experience,
to edit your videos down across multiple devices
including things like Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad,
all that at launch, and Android coming in the near future.
But how does Adobe Rush actually stack up
against some pretty stiff competition out there,
especially with solid options on Mac and PC like Final Curt,
Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Premiere Pro.
And there's also some killer apps on IOS
and Android like KineMaster, LumaFusion and PowerDirector.
So in this review we're gonna run through my thoughts
after putting the new Adobe Premiere Rush video editor
through its paces
and see how it compares to existing competitors,
and just how well the cross platform features work
and whether it's really the best video editing app
for iPhone and Android right now.
And let me know in the comments, have you tried Rush yet?
And what are your thoughts so far?
And make sure you stick around to the end
'cause I'm also gonna share three tips
to help you edit faster on Rush
and these tips are also gonna work
if you're using other software as well.
So, first off, what is it
and how does it compare to Adobe's other software
like their Clips app, like Adobe Premiere Elements
and Adobe Premiere Pro.
So the Clips app is a super basic video editing app
that's been out for quite a while now.
It's something that we really haven't recommended
because there are much better options out there.
Because the features in it were so limited.
You could really just trim the top off a clip,
trim the end off a clip and not do too much more.
There was some filters and some really super basic editing
but that's all it was really designed for,
just trimming down your videos and getting them out
onto your social platforms quick.
Adobe Premiere Elements is a cross platform
video editing application pretty much aimed for beginners
through to intermediate.
It sits below their top Adobe Premiere Pro editing app
which is again aimed for intermediates
through to advanced and professionals.
So really between those three, Adobe Rush fits in
between the Clips app, the super basic editing app,
and Adobe Premiere Elements.
But in some regards it's actually a far better option
than Adobe Premiere Elements
and, depending on the videos you're creating,
it may even be a better option for you
than the full-on Adobe Premiere Pro.
Or it can be something that you bring in with your workflow
to work alongside of Adobe Premiere Pro.
So this is where Rush fits in regards to Adobe's ecosystem
and their other software offerings as well.
So looking broader than just Adobe's ecosystem,
how this compares to other video editing apps out there.
I would say the closest thing to it would be iMovie
in regards to simplicity, how the editing is actually done
but obviously this is now a cross platform,
cross device equivalent.
If anything it's a lot more powerful
than iMovie in some regards
but it maybe doesn't have all the features
and things that iMovie does.
So now let's take a look at some of the main features inside
of Adobe Premiere Rush and what you can actually do in it.
Well it does support multiple tracks
of video and audio layers.
So just like more professional software,
you can actually stack up your layers.
Meaning you could have one video layer,
which might be yourself presenting to camera like this,
and then you can lay up your B-roll
or your overlay footage on top of that.
Now that's something
that most very basic video editing software apps don't have
so having that already in this,
just makes it so much more powerful,
giving you so much more creative control over your edits.
They also make it so easy to import your footage,
there is a huge range of supported file types
and files from a large range of cameras
that are supported that will work straight out of the box
in Adobe Premiere Rush.
So whether you're using your phone to capture content,
whether using a GoPro, a DSLR, mirrorless,
there is a good chance that your camera is going
to be supported right now.
Now, if you are using the mobile app,
which again at this point is IOS only,
hopefully Android is coming really, really soon.
But you also have the ability to record direct
from your phone's camera
and save it directly into your timeline.
There's also a pro-mode
which enables a heap more advanced features.
Things like being able to change the frame rate,
adjust and lock the exposure, so that's your shutter speed
and your ISO.
A heap of really advanced features
that normally you would have had to go to an app
like FiLMiC Pro to be able to lock down those settings,
to get the best results out of your phone's camera.
You can also enable things like slow motion
in there as well, all from within the one app.
There's also a heap of built-in filters and presets
and things when it comes to color grading your edit down.
You can also customize up each of them
with a heap of controls,
to really dial in that look that you're after.
It's also super easy to add in titles
and animated titles into your edits as well.
There's a heap of presets there
and a lot of them are really customizable.
So, what you'll find is that pretty much all
of the core video editing functionality that you need,
that you'd be used to seeing in things like iMovie
and even the things that you would use all the time
in Final Cut and Premiere, all the important stuff is here
so you get that level of creative control over your edits
from whatever device that you're using.
And that's probably the biggest feature here
that we have touched on a couple of times is
that this is cross platform compatible,
meaning that you could start this edit on your phone
and then everything gets backed up to the Adobe Cloud
and then you can open it up on your Mac or on your PC
and the same timeline is there,
or your footage is there,
you can then save it out from either one of those devices,
make changes on either one
and it is updated across all of them.
That is huge, there is nothing else that comes close
to editing cross-platform like this.
Another huge feature here is the ability
to reformat the videos that you're creating.
So you can actually choose
whether you wanna create a widescreen, create a square,
create a portrait video
or even create multiple versions of each.
So you can start your video as a widescreen video
and then you can repurpose it maybe over
to something like Instagram Stories or IGTV
and convert it to portrait literally with a click
of a button and then just go through and line everything up
and reframe everything the way that you'd like it.
Now, in regards to actually editing in Rush,
it is super, super simple.
You can literally click on a clip, you get the handles
that will appear on either side of the clip
and you can just slide them in and out
to adjust the length of the clip, or to trim a clip down.
If you wanna pick up a clip and move it around,
it is literally click and drag,
or tap and drag to reposition.
But what I really, really like
about the editing process in Rush is
that they've kind of ripped off the magnetic timeline
from Final Cut and from iMovie.
Meaning that as you stack up your video layers
and lay video tracks on top of each other,
they're actually all tied together and synced together.
So if you wanna move a stack of video clips,
then you can just click the bottom one and move it around
and all the clips that are tied to it
or on the layers above it, go with it.
So, this is so awesome, to be able to pick up
and move things around, and keep everything in sync.
There is no other mobile app that let's you do this
in the way that this does and really to do it so simply.
Another really awesome feature of Adobe Premiere Rush
is that you can transfer your Rush projects,
whether you've started them on your desktop, your laptop
or on your phone, you can transfer them
and upgrade them into Adobe Premiere Pro.
So if you have a license for Adobe Premiere Pro,
you can finish off all of your Rush videos
and take them to the next level with all the extra features
and things that are inside Adobe Premiere Pro directly
from the projects that you started in Rush.
Meaning if you just want to start an editing project
on your phone or on your iPad, you can transfer it
and open it up on Premiere Pro and finish it off in there.
I think the last really, really big feature
is just how powerful this actually is.
We've dropped in a heap of 4K footage,
we've dropped in some crazy GoPro footage,
we've mixed frame rates in the timelines
and playback across all devices has been seamless,
across older iPhones, newer iPhones, across Macs
and across PC, everything just works really, really well.
And then when you actually go to export
or to share your video files out,
you've got a heap of presets in there as well,
to make it really, really easy to get content out fast.
So you've got presets in there for YouTube, for Facebook,
for Instagram,
but the most surprising thing to me out of all of this,
was how fast the exports happen.
It's crazy fast, even on a mobile device,
even on an iPhone, the export times were super, super fast.
Now, those aren't all the features
but they are probably the biggest,
most game changing features
that you've got inside Adobe Premiere Rush
but that's not to say that there's nothing wrong with it
or nothing that's missing just yet.
We originally have had a few crashes of it,
especially on the iPhone side,
but obviously they've been rolling out a heap
of updates to it which has fixed a lot of the issues
that we were having, so it is still new,
so if it's a little buggy,
then, yeah, I guess we can kind of expect that.
But I think the biggest features that is missing right now
is the ability to copy and paste your effects
across multiple clips
or apply a color grade across multiple clips.
So right now if you wanna apply a color grade,
it's on an individual clip-by-clip basis.
You gotta select the clip, apply the effect
or the grade that you want
and then you've gotta do the same thing
for all the following clips.
Now, yes there is kind of a little work around
in that you could save those settings as a preset
but you still gotta manually apply that preset then
to all of the clips in your timeline
that you wanna it to apply to.
But having the ability to be able to apply an effect
to an entire video track or video layer
or to be able to select all of your clips
and apply an effect to all of those selected clips,
would be a game changing feature.
And the other thing that's not really a negative
but definitely something that you want to be aware of
is, obviously if you're moving files
or moving projects between your iPhone and between your Mac,
or between your iPhone and between your desktop,
they're going to need to be transferred over the internet.
Meaning that if you're just on a data plan,
you could burn through a heap of data.
so you would wanna make sure you're on WI-FI
when that sync is happening
and yes, if you do have slow internet,
that could take some time to get your video files
from your phone over to your computer.
But overall, the way that that works
and in all our testing, it's just been amazing to go out
and shoot some stuff, come back and to be able to edit it
on the computer and it's already there, in the timeline.
Or to be able to start an edit on your phone
and then finish it off on your computer.
It's just awesome how seamless it actually is.
So now let's look at the pricing.
How much does it actually cost you to get
and use Adobe Premiere Rush?
Well there is a free starter plan
which gives you three exports
and it gives you two gigabytes of cloud storage
and also access to the Adobe Fonts
and Adobe Portfolio as well.
But you can buy a license to Adobe Premiere Rush
for $9.99 US per month
and that gives you access to unlimited exports
and also 100 gig of cloud storage.
Now, if you've already got an Adobe subscription
then Premiere Rush is included
with the Premiere Pro subscription
but it's also part
of the Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps Plan as well.
So if you've either got Premiere Pro
or you've got all the apps,
then you'll have access to Rush there as well.
So, wrapping all this up, who would we recommend this for
and what sort of use cases or workflows
would be best suited to Adobe Rush?
Well, I really think it's designed for people
that are creating content and editing content
and releasing content on the go.
If you are someone that wants to be able to shoot, edit
and upload directly from your phone,
I right now think there's probably no easier,
better app to do it.
I think even the fact that you've got access
to those pro camera settings directly in the Rush app,
definitely makes it a great use case or a great solution
for creating things like professional Instagram stories
and then quickly editing the 15 second clips together
and then pushing them straight out from there.
I also think is a great use case here for someone
who wants to start some basic editing,
maybe while they're on the go,
while you're sitting on the train
or sitting on the bus or whatever it is,
you can start your edit down in Adobe Premiere Rush
from your iPad, from your iPhone and then later, transfer it
and open up that exact project and all that work
that you've done,
open it up in Adobe Premiere Pro for further editing
and for finishing on there with all those advanced tools.
Now, who would I not recommend this for?
I would say if you're looking
for something really, really advanced
and you want all the features and tool sets
and stuff on your smartphone,
I would say probably look at LumaFusion if you're on IOS,
or, if you want some more advanced features
on Android side of things, then look at PowerDirector,
but in saying that, the workflows are totally different.
I think the best all rounder right now is Adobe Rush,
especially if you're looking for creating content
on your smartphone, editing it down easily
and being able to export it, repurpose from portrait
to square to landscape,
there's nothing else that comes close on that.
But you are missing some of those more advanced features.
So, if you're someone who's looking for all
of those advanced features and really frame-by-frame editing
and a full suite of really advanced video
and audio controls, then maybe look at some
of those other options right now.
And obviously if you're on Android
and you're looking for a solution,
then this isn't gonna be a fit
for you until they release it.
But as someone who does edit in Adobe Premiere Pro
and Final Cut and does use a whole range of apps
on my devices, I really think that this is going
to take over a lot of that workload,
especially replacing a lot of the apps
that I've been using for creating videos on the go
and creating social media posts and those sorts of things.
I really think that this is a game changing app
and I'm really excited to see what they bring in
in the future.
And I think just the fact of how easy it is
to be able to transfer your projects from your phone
and all the footage and everything from your phone,
to be able to open that up in Adobe Premiere
and you have access to all those advanced features
is a really, really awesome thing.
Now, earlier in the video I said I would share three tips
to help you edit faster in Adobe Rush
or in any other video editing app or program as well.
So, tip number one
is to start by editing down your content first.
A lot of people would jump in
and they'll start doing all the color grades
and adding effects and all these sorts of things first,
but really you've gotta make sure your content is all there,
that it's gonna make sense,
that you've actually got enough there to tell a story
and to be able to produce a video.
So start by cutting down your actual content first
and start building that story out to make sure
that you've everything before you get carried away
or bogged down in all these fancy effects
and color grades and things.
Tip number two is to not go overboard with transitions.
You'll see a lot of people when they start out editing,
they'll be dropping star wipes and all sorts of fancy wipes
and slides and things into their edits
which they think looks really, really cool
but is actually really just distracting
and annoying for everyone watching.
So just stick to basic cuts, even a jump cut
or a simple fade or maybe even a dip to white
or a dip to black but really that should be it
unless you're really advanced
or you're using it as a feature of your storytelling
to help transition someone between one scene and the next.
So, don't go overboard with your transitions.
And tip number three is to play back your video
on a couple of different devices
before you actually release it and make it public.
Now most content these days are consumed
on our mobile devices, our iPads, our phones
and things, so you wanna make sure
that your video actually looks good on the devices
that your audience is going to watch them back on.
So what I'd suggest is that you try it on an iPad,
on an iPhone or some sort of smart device,
your computer, a TV maybe even as well.
But just check it on at least a couple of different devices
so that you can see what it looks like,
see what it sounds like and obviously make any changes
if you're not happy with that result.
Now, those are just three tips from our full editing guide,
the Primal Video Method which is the most effective
and efficient way to edit your videos down
without any wasted time of rework.
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