Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the most used video editors and a Filmora alternative. Both have their options for helping users produce great videos.
If you want to find out which to use, this Filmora vs. Premiere Pro review is for you.
Takeaway
Filmora is a video editor aimed to make editing straightforward. You find many transitions, video effects, stickers, and text titles for social media videos.
Adobe Premiere Pro is more progressive as it offers advanced color grading, animation tools, a caption editor, collaboration, and support for third-party effects.
Workflow and interface
Premiere Pro is zoomed out, so you find many options on the interface. It will be hard to work if you have a laptop with less than a 15-inch screen.
When you add a clip to the timeline, it adds the audio on a different track. You can unlink them to separate them.
On Filmora, if you want to see or edit the audio, you must separate them yourself.
Also, Premiere Pro has two preview windows: one for the project and one for individual clips.
Filmora has one which switches to the clip one when you play a clip.
Lastly, if you add an effect to a clip and change its settings, you can save that effect for future use in Premiere Pro. Filmora does not have anything like that.
Ease of use
We see a massive difference in usability while comparing Filmora vs. Premiere Pro.
Premiere Pro is challenging because it has a wide range of options. Its interface is also crowded, making it hard for beginners.
However, it has workspace interfaces. Each interface has a specific set of options. For example, in the “Caption and Graphics” workspace, you find caption, text, and graphics tools.
Wondershare Filmora is easier. It has one preview window giving you space for other stuff. On the bottom, you see the timeline; on the left, you see effects, media files, and clip options.
Tools
Both offer the industry standard tools, including:
- Blade
- Selection
- Snapping
- Color options
- Effects
- Volume control
There are a few options in Filmora that we don’t find in Premiere Pro. Those include:
- Audio effects
- Screen and webcam recorder
- Shape elements
Premiere Pro also offers some options that Filmora does not provide:
- Advanced keyframes
- Advanced audio editing
- Caption editing and auto-generating
- Tutorials
- Team projects
- Sequences management
- Ripple delete
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Text titles
Filmora has over 300 text titles built-in. You must download those first, so an internet connection is required.
Premiere Pro does not have as many, but it has the power of third-party titles. You find hundreds of titles online that can be imported into the program.
Transition effects
You will find over 500 transitions in Filmora. On the other hand, Premiere Pro comes with around 55 transition effects.
Like the text titles, the difference is enormous. You mostly find professional effects in Premiere Pro, whereas professional to social in Filmora.
Also, like the text titles, you can download transitions for Premiere Pro online.
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Color grading
Premiere Pro’s color grading is advanced, giving you options when needed. Its Lumetri Color panel offers basic to creative options to make any dull video colorful.
Some of the things Premiere Pro can help you with:
- Scene light improvement
- Auto-color the whole scene
- Even skin tone to get rid of dark circles and spots
- Adjust whites, blacks, shadows, and highlights
Elements
Filmora comes with animated shapes and icons to add to your videos. Again, those are more for social media videos than the professionals.
Integrations
This is where Adobe takes the cake. Adobe tools may suit you better if you are a blogger and social media content creator.
Most Adobe productivity programs, including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc., are connected.
For example, you can open an image in Photoshop from Premiere Pro, and the edits will automatically be updated. Similarly, you can open and edit a video clip in After Effects in Premiere Pro.
Pricing
Both are paid tools, but Filmora can be purchased with a one-time fee.
It’s Annual plan that covers Windows only, and future updates costs $49.99 yearly. The cross-platform plan that supports desktop, mobile, and tablet apps costs $59.99 yearly.
The perpetual plan costs a one-time fee of $79.99. However, this does not include future version updates.
Premiere Pro is only subscription-based. It comes in two plans: single-app and creative cloud.
The single app brings Premiere Rush and 100 GB of cloud storage at $20.99 monthly.
If you are a content creator and blogger, the Creative Cloud plan will be better, costing $54.99 per month. The plan provides access to over 25 apps.
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Summary
It depends on what you want and how much you are willing to spend. Filmora is great for social media and quick projects. It’s also cost-effective.
Premiere Pro is used for social media and advanced projects where options like color grading, captioning, multi-platform exporting, etc., are required.
If you have a big idea to execute, Filmora may get short in helping you achieve that, but Premiere Pro will have most of the tools.
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My name is Madhsudhan Khemchandani. I have a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering (Honours). I have been writing articles on apps and software for over five years. I have also made over 200 videos on YouTube. Read more about me on the About page.