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7 Adobe Premiere Pro Alternatives that are Completely Free
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Adobe Premiere Pro Alternatives
We’ve been editing on Adobe Premiere Pro for a couple of years now and we kind of have a love-hate relationship with it. It has a lot of features but also a lot of crashes unfortunately. We decided it was time to look for some alternatives. We came across 7 of them and the best thing is that they are all free.
Shotcut
Shotcut is a completely free editing software, it’s familiar to Lightworks. However, making animation using keyframes is actually way more intuitive. It has some color grading tools and is a very lightweight program with barely any stability isssues. It does have a lot of trouble playing back 4K footage.
Kdenlive
This is a completely free and open source program. It has a lot of the professional features an editing software needs. We can make animations using keyframes, it has a bunch of effects (not a lot but the essentials) and it has color grading tools. It has masking abilities and there’s even a motion tracker. It feels a little bit old fashion but the playback goes pretty smooth, it does take some time when importing footage but once in the timeline it all goes fine.
Lightworks
Lightworks is a super lightweight editing program. It has a quick start-up and playback & editing in general goes very smooth. That’s because it has a slim feature set. If you mostly just want to edit and apply basic effects this is an ideal program. It even has some very nice color correction and grading tools.
Avid Media Composer First
I recommend changing to Avid when you have almost no experience with any other editing programs. It’s a super stable software and is very responsive, even more than Premiere Pro but it’s such a pain in the ass to work with. You need to click a thousand times in order to get a desired effect, it’s super illogical to work with if you have any experience with other editing programs and has it’s limitations when it comes to vfx. Now I can totally blame myself for not understanding how this program works since it’s actually the first time I work with it. Now Avid Media Composer First is a free version but if you want the full Avid Media Composer you do have to pay quite a lot of money.
Filmora Pro
Filmora isn’t actually free. There is a free version that has all the features but it creates a watermark when exporting. The price for the software is only $150 so definitely a worthy competitor to Premiere Pro. It comes with all professional features like animations with keyframes, a motion blur option, color correction tools, scopes, masking tools and even a motion tracker. The interface looks familiar to both Premiere Pro and Hitfilm Express.
Hitfilm Express
Hitfilm is a very popular program and it looks almost exactly like Premiere Pro when it comes to interface. Applying keyframes to animations goes really well and you can even apply motion blur to the animation. It has a similar toolbar like Premiere and it even has a motion tracker, which Premiere doesn’t have. The only downside is the fact that 4K footage isn’t playing back smoothly like in Avid or Resolve. But if you’re working with HD footage, I really recommend Hitfilm Express!
DaVinci Resolve
This is probably the best and most popular one on the list. Resolve has different workspaces for editing, vfx (which is called fusion), colorgrading and even sound mixing. Within every workspace you will get everything a professional video editor needs. It has a pretty big effects library, applying keyframes goes really smooth and everything is node based which is kind of a difficult step in the beginning but once you get the hang of it, it’s pretty useful.
Omen 15
We’ve been trying all of these programs on the brand new Omen 15, which is a beast of a laptop from Omen. It’s very affordable but comes with some compromises. It has an AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor, 16GBs of RAM and 1TB of storage. So an ideal laptop for editing at home. It’s powerful but quite bulky, weighing up to almost 2 kilograms or 5 pounds.
Right now, I haven’t seen any NLE (Free & Paid) can replace Premiere Pro. When it was Premiere Pro 5, Avid dominated the world market. But… there was a big BUT (read ‘BUTT’) in case of Avid. It was totally different .. it still is and yes, someone rightly said that you may need to buy a text book on Avid. Premiere came to such a height that currently no one can come closer to it, forget replacing. I have used almost all the NLEs in the market (Free & Paid and obviously in others’ computers) except Final Cut because I couldn’t get my hands on a Mac. You have to tear your hairs to do some simple project in any of these NLEs mentioned here except Vegas Pro. Magix did not dare top modify it and it remained in that same old stage where it was, before Sony sold it to Magix. But, (ahh.. here is also a ‘BUT’ ) putting and configuring an effect in Vegas Pro is a pain in the ass. I personally have Premiere Pro CS6 which still works far smoother and easier than all the NLEs here. In the audio editing and mastering market, there are so many superb alternatives, I wish same could happen in the video editing market.
None of the “alternatives” to Premiere are nearly as full featured and yeah, Premiere will bite your ass sometimes, but if you don’t upgrade to every “new” update, it’s not bad (especially once you know what not to do) Also, Premiere supports tons of third party plugins, etc. that none of these “free” ones do. They are “alternatives” if you don’t want to really do much at all, so…
Adobe Premiere Pro is great but I usually use free online video editor by acethinker at this point. II used it as an alternative to it. But the tools mentioned above are great options too. Thanks for listing them out.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH RIP ADOBE PREMIER PRO
Kdenlive fucking sucks. You better start coding a video editing program, probably you’d get better conclusion. If you mind your mental health fucking please don’t install that fucking little piece of shit.
thanks
Thanks for the advice since the price of Premiere Pro is really a pain in the ass
We really laught reading this article
Adobe Premiere Pro is a great tool for editing videos. But, AceThinker Video Master is better than Premiere Pro when it comes to video conversion because it can convert videos to MP4, AVI, FLV, MP3, and more. It also has its own video editor that you can use to add filters, effects, watermarks, audio, subtitles, etc., on the video before converting it.
Adobe premiere can literally also do those things that you just mentioned. I don’t think you experimented with Adobe enough.
Was thinking the same thing when I read that… and I even think these are some of the more intuitive features of premiere
They didn’t mention resolve in the article, does that mean the don’t recommend it or it isn’t free?
It’s the second one from the bottom???
Filmora is not free
Yeah they said that in the article
they literally said that