A Standard In the Industry - Hard to Ignore
Updated August 26, 2019
A Standard In the Industry - Hard to Ignore
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the non-linear editors my production company uses to post TV ads, web video, television, and film projects. We use Adobe Premiere Pro when interfacing with other production companies or individuals in the industry who primarily edit on the Adobe platform as well as those projects that require frequent round-tripping with other Adobe Creative Cloud products such as after-effects.
- Adobe gives you tons of control over project settings and preferences. It gives you the freedom to adjust editing timebase, aspect ratios, etc and to set presets based on your needs per project.
- Adobe Premiere Pro works well in shared workspace environments - where multiple editors are sending projects back and forth with each other in order to complete a project.
- One strength of Premiere Pro is the ability to round trip with other Adobe software. It interfaces well with motion graphics software After Effects as well as other more recent software (such as Prelude) - giving you a more acute set of tools at your disposal.
- There is a ton of support for Adobe Premiere Pro out there - plenty of tutorials available both from Adobe as well as the user world.
- One thing in general that Adobe could improve on is the user interface. It tends to feel a bit archaic as most Non-Linear Editors do. Many of the features are not intuitive and still holdover from a bygone era of moviola editing. That said, it is a far cry from Avid and certainly is a standard in the industry and has been for years - it could just use some updating with more modern features.
- Adobe certainly makes updating a pain in the rear. Though the separate software that allows you to update all CC apps is relatively easy - for years they have made it more difficult than it needs to be to work back and forth between old versions and new. This is an industry where users are slow to update - so they could be more accommodating about that.
- In general, I wish Adobe would get over their disdain for Apple and support more apple codecs - prores, etc. Let's work together, people! It's better for everyone.
- One major negative is the pricing plan - monthly fee for keeping Adobe CC. We regularly use maybe 3 of the software that comes with CC - Adobe Premiere Pro is probably the most expensive NLE on the market and I think unnecessarily so. I paid $300 for FCPX once, 7 years ago. In 6 months Adobe costs more.
- It's great to have Adobe Premiere Pro at my disposal - though it is not my primary editor, it is very easy to jump over to Premiere Pro and get to work.
- At the end of the day, an NLE is an NLE and personal preference and experience largely trump the decision over which to use. Some groups may prefer Adobe, Avid, or FCPX - however at the end of the day - a good edit is a good edit and the general public will never and should never be able to tell what it was edited on. My opinion - Adobe is one of the top 2 NLE out there and probably will be for years to come - glad to have it in my arsenal.
Premiere Pro is certainly one of the more useful and reliable NLE out there. I would be comfortable editing nearly any project on it and have confidence it would handle nearly any format in a stable and efficient manner.