The color tools were powerful, but I didn’t even know where to start with color at that point in my career. It felt too constricted like Final Cut with a complicated layout and a confusing workflow. At that point, I was working on a local indie feature and the director wanted me to use Resolve to cut some dailies since we were shooting with a BlackMagic camera. Yet, I keep running back to it every single time, no questions asked.īack in 2015, I worked with BlackMagic’s DaVinci Resolve for the first time.

Whether it’s glitchy exports (if you can get it to export at all in some cases), corrupt project files, sudden and unprompted crashing, or the countless other issues I’ve experienced, Premiere has been the bane of my existence for the last 8 years.

The bugs it has (and has always had) often leave me screaming at my computer, angry and desperate for the damn thing to work like I want. On the flip side of the coin, Premiere is also one giant, splitting headache in software form. I dabbled in a few other programs like Final Cut Pro when I was forced to, but they lacked so much of what I loved about Premiere. It’s sleek, fairly user-friendly, extremely powerful, customizable, and integrable with other Adobe programs like After Effects and Audition. From the moment I decided to graduate from Windows MovieMaker and enroll in film school, my default editing program has always been Adobe Premiere Pro.

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