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.