I'm using video editing prgrams like 5-10 times a year, so yes, I know I'm not exactly your target business customer.
Even Blackmagic has begun neutering the free versions of its software by now requiring a full paid version just to use an increasing number of features that were formerly free. If you're in another country, prices will vary.Īnd again, Adobe is not alone. These prices assume that you're in the US.
(Upgrade discounts were available, but at the discounts that were provided back then, it would have required more than four to five years worth of upgrades just to bring the total cost down to the level of an equal-length subscription.) By contrast, you'd be paying only about $250 per year (after taxes) for the Creative Cloud version of Premiere Pro, and about $700 per year (after taxes) for the standard Creative Cloud suite - and you will get to update major versions every year. The entire Creative Suite Master Version, when it was still available, cost $3,000 just for the single version.
Last time I checked, Premiere Pro by itself cost $900 just for a single-version "perpetual" license.
And in today's world, if the perpetual license were to have continued, getting a newer major version would have cost you full price again. Generally speaking, Filmora has a lower system requirement and therefore offers more responsive performance than Adobe Premiere Pro.Actually, a perpetual license would have cost you even more money than a full year's subscription - and then, you would have been limited to one major version, period.
Performance is very fast on Windows, but Mac users have reported occasional lags that can get in the way of working. However, any mid-to-high range graphics card will do. It is compulsory to have an external graphics card installed in order to use Adobe Premiere Pro. GPU acceleration is disabled by default, but it can be turned on in the settings. Video editing software is best used on a 64-bit operating system.įilmora boasts a decent rendering speed even on mid-end desktop models with built-in graphics processors like Intel HD 5000 or later, but an external graphics card is certainly helpful. Adobe Premiere Pro, though, requires an external graphics card with at least 2GB VRAM (4GB for 4K editing), along with these basic requirements. Wondershare Filmora 9 requires a 2GHz processor and about 2GB of RAM (8GB for 4K editing). It is compulsory to have an external graphics card installed to use Adobe Premiere Pro (Image credit: Adobe) The built-in Audio Mixer also lets you adjust panning and volume to your liking. There is also a built-in Audio Mixer to make edits to your audio clips.įilmora offers 22 pre-designed background songs to add to your video, and you can always add a different one from your computer if you like. With Adobe Premiere Pro, you can add background music and other audio to your video clip in real-time as it is playing. There are even shadows and strokes that you can apply to your text, apart from color and animation. With the inclusion of Adobe Typekit in Adobe Premiere Pro, the possibilities when it comes to adding text to your video are endless. You can also use the Advanced Text Edit option to create your own text templates, which you can add your own colors and animations to.
Adobe Premiere Pro offers 38 transitions to choose from, whereas Filmora offers 100, but Premiere Pro is the only video editing tool with an option that lets you design your own transitions.įilmora features a good number of text templates that you can use, each beautifully colored and animated to look professional. These picture-in-picture effects can also be customized and adjusted to suit your visual preferences.Īpart from visual effects, you can also use transitions to change how one part of the video clip flows into another. In contrast, Filmora by Wondershare offers many more Instagram-like special effects that you can apply to your video.