In Premiere, I have a tendency to move "up" in my timeline, putting the footage on higher video tracks so that I don't accidentally delete anything, but in Final Cut, I naturally kept my timeline tidier, and I only ended up using three video tracks.
Although both programs are capable of mimicking the other by holding the command and option buttons, the native way they work encouraged me to edit differently. Moving a clip on top of another in Premiere will delete the bottom clip, while it will move the footage out of the way in Final Cut. The timelines work differently in Premiere and Final Cut.
This proved to me that my computer was plenty fast enough to play back my relatively small 4K 100 Mbps footage at 2x speed, but Adobe's software is the weak link. When I would add effects to a clip, the footage would be noticeably lower-resolution for a few seconds (while it rendered in the background), but it would always play and scrub smoothly before and after the footage became sharp. Not only did my footage never stutter, but it also scrubbed flawlessly without any additional rendering or proxy building. This is annoying, but I've become used to it.Įditing in Final Cut Pro was shockingly fast. Sometimes, this only takes a few minutes, while other times, it can take over an hour if the project is large enough. To fix this, I've gotten in the habit of making proxies before I start editing any project. The footage may play smoothly for a second in 2x speed, but then, it will freeze up, and when I hit the spacebar to stop playing, the footage will stop and the software will freeze while the audio continues for sometimes up to 10 seconds before the sound stops and the software becomes usable again. This does also happen on some Windows machines I've used, but it's never been this bad. I edit almost exclusively in 2x speed in Premiere, and I'm sad to say that it is completely unusable on my new M1 MacBook Pro. That being said, the project I was working on was abnormally simple. I feel like no matter how gigantic my computer monitors are, they are never big enough for Adobe Premiere, and I've never understood how people can edit a video on a laptop, but for the first time, I found editing in Final Cut Pro very comfortable on my 14-inch laptop screen. I wasn't jumping around from one corner of the screen to the other like I find myself doing in Premiere. I also found that navigating around Final Cut Pro felt a little easier.
There are so many extra windows and tools in Premiere that I will probably never use for my simple projects, and this complexity can be a turn-off to new users. There's no doubt that Premiere is far more complicated than Final Cut. After watching a couple of YouTube tutorials, I jumped right into Final Cut Pro without too much confusion.
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