Adobe Premiere Pro
I currently edit almost all of my videos with Adobe Premiere. Much of the reason I stick to Adobe tools is that I am grandfathered into an education license at a great price, so it’s hard to switch away from a deal I will never receive again. However, Adobe have also now changed their pricing model and this discounted rate will stop at the end of 2026, so I am weighing up Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve as alternatives.
For some time, Premiere felt as tired as Audition and was treated with disdain by many video professionals. However, in the past few years, it has upped its game, and while some of the new AI features I have less need for, tools like text-based editing and sound enhancement have been a great productivity boost.
I have been building libraries of assets for text and graphic overlays while editing. But the way Creative Cloud applications save and sync different styles and assets into synced libraries remains confusing to me, as does what I can store as an asset versus what I need to keep separately as an After Effects project. But I will keep pursuing it, as my current workflow (embarrassingly, copying and pasting previous overlays from older videos) is problematic.
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