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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