| Product | Final Cut Pro | Adobe Premiere |
|---|---|---|
| Link | Visit Final Cut Pro | Visit Adobe Premiere |
| Description | Apple offers Final Cut Pro X, a video editing platform featuring optimized for a high performance machines and supporting a wide range of quality effects. | Cloud-based video editing solution that allows businesses to create and edit videos, add effects or transitions and export completed footage on a unified platform. It enables users to add captions in video clips, create animated slideshows and streamline review/approval processes. |
| Rating | 4.7 on Capterra/9/10 on TrustRadius | 4.7 on Capterra/8.9/10 on TrustRadius |
| Pricing Model | Flat-Rate pricing | Flate-Rate pricing |
| Pricing Rates | Free trial available | “Free trial available “ |
| Could be better | Collaboration isn’t easy (Can’t share individual files) No integration with other editing softwares Expensive relative to the simple features it offers | Overwhelming user interface Uses a lot of the computer’s capacity Rendering needs to be optimised |
| Key features | Content Library Visual Effects Text Animation | Text Animation Clip Editing Time Mapping |
| Support | – | Email/Help Desk Knowledge Base Phone Support Chat |
Feature Overview: Final Cut Pro vs. Adobe Premiere
| Features | Final Cut Pro | Adobe Premiere |
|---|---|---|
| Text Animation | Yes | Yes |
| Audio Mixing | Yes | Yes |
| Time Mapping | Yes | Yes |
| Content Library | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | Yes | Yes |
| Motion Tracking | Yes | Yes |
Text Animation
This feature enables the softwares’ users to animate the text in their content. It also allows them to edit the text’s properties, like font type, size, colour and opacity. Given that it’s quite an essential feature for editors, it’s offered in both softwares.
Audio Mixing
Simply put, this feature allows editors to add sounds to their videos and to mess around with them. They can cut something out or add some background music. Again, given it’s importance, it’s a feature that comes in both softwares.
Time Mapping
Time mapping is basically editing the video to be played either at a slower or faster rate to the one it was shot at. For example, editing the footage to be played in slow motion.
Content Library
A content library provides the editors with a library of stock images, videos and vector graphics to include in their final products. This is especially useful when editors or the producers want to include something in the video, but filming it themselves is tricky or expensive.
Integrations
Integration is an extremely important feature that allows the editors to integrate their work among several editing, animation and softwares. One software might have a function that another doesn’t or might add to the final product, so integrations are important.
Motion Tracking
Motion tracking allow for dynamic graphics. This allows editors to have pictures or tect, for example, follow a moving object in the video.
