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If you're a pro video editor, chances are good that you use Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut Pro. Those aren't the only options—there's still some competition from the likes of Avid, Cyberlink, and Magix—but most of the editing world falls into the Apple and Adobe camps. Both are remarkable pieces of video editing software, but there are important differences. In this article, we consider the many aspects of choosing high-end video editing software.

Note that throughout this piece, in each section we first summarize how Adobe Premiere Pro CC fares and then discuss Apple Final Cut Pro X. The order is solely based on alphabetization of the product names. We're just comparing features, ease of use, and power—not popularity.

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Though the initial release of Final Cut Pro X in 2011 lacked some tools that pros needed, prompting a market share shift towards Premiere, all of the missing pro tools have long since reappeared in later Final Cut releases—often in ways that improved on the standard tools. Both applications are eminently suited to the highest level of movie and TV production, each with extensive plug-in and hardware support ecosystems.

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The intention of this comparison is not so much to declare a winner as to point out the differences and the strengths and weaknesses of each. The goal is to help you make a decision based on what's important in your professional or hobbyist video editing projects.

If you beg to differ or strongly agree with the points made along the way, feel free to chime in via the comments section at the bottom of the article.

• Pricing

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Adobe's pro-level video editor requires an ongoing Creative Cloud subscription of $20.99 per month with an annual plan, or $31.49 per month on a month-by-month basis. A full year's subscription paid up front costs $239.88, which works out to $19.99 per month. If you want the entire Creative Cloud suite, which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, and a raft of other Adobe creative software, you need to pay $52.99 per month. The subscription not only gets you program updates, which Adobe delivers semiannually, but also 100GB of cloud storage for syncing media.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: Apple's pro video editor costs a flat, one-time price of $299.99. That's a massive cut from the price of its predecessor, Final Cut Pro 7, which took a thousand-dollar toll on users. It's also a much better deal than Premiere Pro, since in less than a year and a half, you'd spend as much on Adobe's product and still have to keep paying. Furthermore, that $299.99 for Final Cut includes feature updates. Note that Final Cut Pro X (often referred to by the acronym FCPX) is only available from the Mac App Store, which is good because that handles updates and lets you install the program on multiple computers when you're signed into the same store account.
  Winner: Apple Final Cut Pro X
  

• Platform and System Requirements

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Premiere Pro CC runs on both Windows and macOS. Requirements are as follows: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit) version 1703 or later; Intel 6th-generation or newer CPU or AMD equivalent; 8GB of RAM (16GB or more is recommended); 8GB of hard-disk space; a 1,280 by 800 display (1,920 by 1,080 pixels or larger recommended); a sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model. On macOS, you need version 10.12 or later; an Intel 6th generation or newer CPU; 8GB of RAM (16GB or is more recommended); 8GB of hard-disk space; a 1,280 by 800 display (1,920 by 1,080 or larger recommended); a sound card compatible with Apple Core Audio.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: As you might expect, Apple's software only runs on Macintosh computers. It requires macOS 10.13.6 or later or later; 4GB of RAM (8GB is recommended for 4K editing, 3D titles, and 360-degree video editing), OpenCL-capable graphics card or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later, 256MB of VRAM (1GB recommended for 4K editing, 3D titles, and 360-degree video editing), and a discrete graphics card. For VR headset support, you also need SteamVR.
  Winner: Adobe Premiere Pro CC
  

• Timeline

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Premiere Pro uses a traditional NLE (nonlinear editor) timeline, with tracks and track heads. Your timeline content is called a Sequence, and you can have Nested Sequences, Subsequences, and Subclips for organizational help. The timeline also has tabs for different sequences, which can be helpful if you're working with nested sequences. Longtime video editors are likely more comfortable with this than with Apple's more inventive trackless Magnetic Timeline.
  Adobe's system also fits with some pro workflows in which the track layouts are in an expected order. It works differently from a lot of video editing apps, however, because it separates a video clip's audio track from its soundtrack. The timeline is very scalable and offers the usual ripple, roll, razor, slip, and slide tools. The UI is extremely configurable, letting you undock any and all panels. You can show or hide thumbnails, waveforms, keyframes, and FX badges. There are seven preconfigured workspaces for things like Assembly, Editing, Color, and Titles, compared with Final Cut's mere three.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: Apple's innovative trackless Magnetic Timeline is both easier on the eyes than the tradition timeline interface and offers several editing advantages, such as Connected Clips, Roles (descriptive labels like Video, Titles, Dialog, Music, and Effects), and Auditions. Instead of tracks, FCPX uses lanes, with a Primary Storyline that everything else attaches to. This makes keeping everything in sync easier than in Premiere. Auditions lets you designate optional clips or takes for a spot in your movie, and you can group clips into Compound Clips—roughly the equivalent of Premiere's Nested Sequences.
  The FCPX interface is less configurable than Premiere's—you can't split panels off into their own windows, except for the Preview window. Speaking of the Preview window, it's very spare in the control department—there's just a play and pause option. Premiere offers a lot more here, with buttons for Step Back, Go to In, Go to Previous Edit Point, Lift, Extract, and Export Frame. Final Cut only offers three prebuilt workspaces (Default, Organize, Color & Effects) compared with Premiere's seven.
  Winner: Tie

• Media Organization

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Like a traditional NLE, Premiere Pro lets you store related media in bins, which are similar to folders. As with folders, you can have bins within bins. You can also apply color labels to assets, but not keyword tags. The newer Libraries panel lets you share assets among other Adobe applications like Photoshop and After Effects.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: Apple's program offers Libraries, keyword tagging, Roles, and Events for organizing your media. The Library is the overarching container that includes your projects, events, and clips, and it keeps track of all your edits and options. You can also manage storage targets and perform batch clip renaming.
  Winner: Apple Final Cut Pro X
  

• Format Support

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Premiere Pro supports 43 audio, video, and image formats—pretty much any media of any level of professionalism you throw at it, and any media for which you have codecs installed on your computer. That even includes Apple ProRes. The software also supports working with native (raw) camera formats including those for ARRI, Canon, Panasonic, RED, and Sony. There's not much video you can create or import that Premiere can't support. It even supports XML exported from Final Cut.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: Final Cut recently added support for the HEVC codec used by not only many 4K video cameras, but also by Apple's own newest iPhones. Like Premiere, Final Cut supports native formats from all the major video camera makers, including ARRI, Canon, Panasonic, RED, and Sony, as well as a slew of video-capable still cameras. It, too, supports XML import and export.
  Winner: Tie

• Audio Editing

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Premiere Pro's Audio Mixer shows pan, balance, volume unit (VU) meters, clipping indicators, and mute/solo for all timeline tracks. You can use it to make adjustments as the project plays. New tracks are automatically created when you drop an audio clip in the timeline, and you can specify types like Standard (which can contain a combination of mono and stereo files), mono, stereo, 5.1, and adaptive. Double-clicking the VU meters or panning dials returns their levels to zero. The audio meters next to Premiere's timeline are resizable and let you solo any track. The program also supports hardware controllers and third-party VSP plugins. If you have Adobe Audition installed, you can roundtrip your audio between that and Premiere for advanced techniques such as Adaptive Noise Reduction, Parametric EQ, Automatic Click Removal, Studio Reverb, and Compression.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X:Audio editing is a strength in Final Cut Pro X. It can automatically fix hum, noise, and peaks, or you can manually adjust these, if you prefer. Over 1,300 royalty-free sound effects are included, and there's lots of plug-in support. One impressive trick is the ability to match separately recorded tracks. For example, if you shoot HD footage with a DSLR and record sound simultaneously on another recorder, Match Audio aligns the sound source. New support for Apple Logic Pro plug-ins give you even more powerful sound editing options. Finally, you get a surround-sound mixer to locate or animate 5.1 audio, and a 10-band or 31-band equalizer.
  Winner: Tie
  

• Motion Graphics Companion Tool

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: After Effects, Premiere's stablemate in Adobe Creative Cloud, is the industry-standard motion graphics tool. Needless to say, it dovetails smoothly with Premiere Pro. That said, it's harder to master than Apple Motion, which has added many of AE's capabilities in recent versions. It's the tool to learn if you're interested in a professional video editing career.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: Apple Motion is also a powerful tool for creating titles, transitions, and effects. It, too, supports a rich plug-in ecosystem, logical layers, and custom templates. Motion is also easier to learn and use, and is probably a better fit if you use FCPX as your primary editor. And if you don't, it's only a $50 one-time purchase.
  Winner: Adobe Premiere Pro CC
  

• Output Options

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: When you're done editing your movie, Premiere's Export option offers most formats you'd ever want, and for more output options you can use the Adobe Encoder, which can target Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, DVD, Blu-ray, and loads of devices. Encoder lets you batch encode to target multiple devices in a single job, such as mobile phones, iPads, and HDTVs. Premiere also can output media using H.265 and the Rec. 2020 color space.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: Final Cut's output options are comparatively limited unless you add the companion application, Apple Compressor. The base app can, however, export to XML and produce HDR, wide-color-space output including Rec.2020 Hybrid Log Gamma and Rec. 2020 HDR10. Compressor adds the ability to customize output settings and perform batch output jobs. It also adds DVD and Blu-ray menu and chapter themes, and can package movies in the format required by the iTunes store.
  Winner: Tie

• Performance and Render Time

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Like most video editors these days, Premiere uses proxy views of your video content to speed up apparent performance, and I didn't encounter any lag during normal editing operations. Zach Yuzon, who edits a lot of PCMag's video reviews and shows, told me he had the same experience on an even less powerful iMac. The software also takes advantage of graphics CUDA and OpenCL hardware acceleration and multicore CPUs with its Adobe Mercury Playback Engine.
  On my rendering tests, Premiere was bested by Final Cut Pro X. I used a 5-minute video composed of mixed clip types, including some 4K content. I added default cross-dissolve transitions between the clips and output to H.265 1080p 60fps at a 20Mbps bitrate. I tested on a 2017 Retina 5K 27-inch iMac with a 4.2GHz Core i7 processor, 32GB RAM, and a Radeon Pro 580 discrete graphics. Premiere took 6:50 (minutes:seconds) to complete the rendering, compared with 4:10 for Final Cut Pro X.
  On a Windows speed test using 4 minutes of mixed content and different transitions, Premiere Pro took 3:50, which isn't bad, though high-end prosumer software from CyberLink and Corel was a bit quicker: CyberLink PowerDirector took 2:34 and Pinnacle Studio took 1:56 for the same set of clips.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: One of the primary goals of the Final Cut Pro X was to take advantage of new 64-bit CPU and GPU capabilities, something that earlier incarnations of Final Cut couldn't do. The work has paid off: On a reasonably powerful iMac, Final Cut outpaced Premiere Pro on my rendering test with a 5-minute video composed of mixed clip types, including some 4K content. I added default cross-dissolve transitions between the clips and output to H.265 1080p 60fps at a 20Mbps bitrate.
  Final Cut Pro finished rendering the project in 4:10 (minutes:seconds), more than 2 minutes faster than Premiere Pro's 6:50. Another cool thing about exporting in Final Cut is that it happens in the background, meaning you can continue working in the program, unlike Premiere, which locks the app during exporting. You can get around this in Premiere, however, by using its accompanying Media Encoder app and choosing Queue in the Export dialog.
  Winner: Final Cut Pro X
  

• Color Tools

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Premiere Pro includes the Lumetri Color tools. These are pro-level color grading features that formerly lived in the separate SpeedGrade application. The Lumetri tools support 3D LUTs (look up tables) for powerful and customizable looks. The tools offer a remarkable amount of color manipulation, along with a great selection of film and HDR looks. You can adjust white balance, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, and black point—all of which can be activated with keyframes. Saturation, Vibrance, Faded Film, and Sharpen adjustments are also available. It's the Curves and Color Wheel options that are truly impressive, however. There's also a very cool Lumetri Scope view, which shows the current frame's proportional use of red, green, and blue.The program includes a Workspace dedicated to Color editing.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: In response to Adobe's impressive Lumetri Color tools, the latest Final Cut update added a color wheel tool that's darned impressive in its own right. The latest version's new Color Wheels show a puck in the middle that lets you move an image towards green, blue, or red, showing the result on the side of the wheel. You can also adjust brightness and saturation with the wheels, and separately control everything (with the Master wheel), or just shadows, midtones, or highlights. It's a remarkably powerful and intuitive set of tools. If wheels are not to your taste, the Color Board option shows a simple linear view of your color settings.
  The Color Curves tool lets you use multiple control points to adjust each of the three primary colors for very specific points on the brightness scale. Luma, Vectorscope, and RGB Parade monitors give you incredible insight into your movie's color usage. You can even edit a single color value using a dropper. Final Cut now supports Color LUTs (lookup tables) from camera manufacturers like ARRI, Canon, Red, and Sony, but also custom LUTs for effects. These effects can be combined with others in a stacked arrangement. Color scopes adapt to HDR editing, as do the color editing tools. Supported formats include Rec. 2020 HLG and Rec. 2020 PQ for HDR10 output.
  Winner: Tie
  

• Titling

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Premiere offers Photoshop-like detail over title text, with a vast number of fonts and adjustments like kerning, shadow, leading, tracking, stroking, and rotation, just to name a few. But for 3D manipulation, you need to head to After Effects.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: Final Cut includes strong 3D Title editing, with keyframe motion options. You get lots of control over title overlays, with 183 animation templates. You edit text and position, and size the titles right in the video preview; there's no need for an external title editor.
  Final Cut's 3D Titles offer eight basic templates and four more Cinematic ones, including a cool 3D Earth choice, for your sci-fi projects. There are 20 font presets, but you can use any style and size you like. Materials like concrete, fabric, plastic, and so on can give your titles any texture you desire. You also get a bunch of lighting options, such as Above, Diagonal Right, and so on. For maximum control, you can edit the 3D titles in Motion, Apple's $49.99 ancillary 3D animation editor. Extrude 2D titles into 3D by tapping the 3D Text option in the Text Inspector, and you can then position and rotate the text to taste on three axes.
  Winner: Apple Final Cut Pro X

• Complementary Apps

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Aside from the Creative Cloud apps that work smoothly with Premiere, like Photoshop, After Effects, and the Audition sound editor, Adobe offers mobile apps that you can import projects from, including Premiere Clip. Another app, Adobe Capture CC, lets you snap images for use as textures, colors, and shapes for use in Premiere.
  For social video creators and anyone who wants to start shooting a project on a mobile device, the recent Adobe Premiere Rush app smooths the workflow between shooting and editing. It syncs projects shot on the mobile device with desktop Premiere Pro, and simplifies sharing to social targets.
  Maybe most important for professional use are less-known Creative Cloud apps, Adobe Story CC (for script development) and Prelude (for metadata ingest, logging, and rough cuts). Character Animator is a new app that creates animations you can bring into Premiere. It's pretty neat in that you can have animations based on live actors' face and body movements.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: The already-mentioned Motion and Compressor sibling applications, along with Apple's high-end sound editor, Logic Pro X, do enlarge the program's capabilities, but those can't compare with Premiere Pro's Photoshop and After Effects integration, not to mention Adobe's more specific production tools, Prelude and Story. In the latest update of Final Cut Pro X, Apple has made it a snap to import projects from iMovie on an iPhone into the pro editor.
  Winner: Adobe Premiere Pro CC

• 360-Degree Editing Support

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Premiere lets you view 360-degree VR footage and change the field of view and angle. You can view this content in anaglyphic form, which is a fancy way of saying you can see it in 3D using standard red-and-blue glasses. You can also have your video track a head-mounted display's view. Neither program, however, can edit 360-degree footage unless it was already stitched to equirectangular format. Corel VideoStudio, CyberLink PowerDirector, and Pinnacle Studio can all open the footage without this conversion.
  You can't see the spherical view alongside the flattened view in Premiere as you can in those apps, either, but you can easily toggle back and forth between these views if you add the VR button to the preview window. Helpfully, Premiere lets you tag a video as VR, so that Facebook or YouTube can tell it's 360-degree content. A recent update adds support for Windows Mixed Reality headsets, such as The Lenovo Explorer, Samsung HMD Odyssey, and of course, the Microsoft HoloLens.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: Final Cut Pro X recently added a bunch of 360-degree support, though it only supports the HTC Vive in terms of VR headsets. It offers 360-degree titling, some effects, and a nifty Patch tool that removes the camera and tripod from your movie. With Compressor, you can share 360-degree video directly to YouTube, Facebook, and Vimeo.
  Winner: Tie, though CyberLink PowerDirector is ahead of both, with stabilization and motion tracking for 360-degree content.
  

• Touch Screen Support

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Premiere Pro has full support for touch-screen-boasting PCs like the Surface Pro, the large-screen Surface Studio, or the 4K touchscreen-equipped Asus Zen AiO Pro Z240IC that I'm writing this story on. Using touch gestures, you can scrub through media, mark in and out points, drag-and-drop clips onto a timeline, and make actual edits. You can also use pinch gestures to zoom and unzoom. There's even a touch-friendly view with big buttons for your fingers.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: Final Cut Pro X has rich support for the latest MacBook Pros' Touch Bar, letting you scroll, adjust colors, trim, choose in and out points, and more with just your fingers. There's also support for touch on Apple Trackpads, but actually touching the screen you're editing on is not possible on any current Macs.
  Winner: Adobe Premiere Pro CC
  

• Use by Nonprofessionals

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: This one is a tough sell. Premiere Pro has its roots in, and is steeped in the tradition of high-end, professional-level software. Ease of use and simplicity of interface are not paramount among its goals. That said, there's no reason that a determined amateur with time to devote to learning the software couldn’t use it.
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: Apple has made the upgrade path from its consumer-level video editor, iMovie, very smooth. And not just from that app: The latest version of Final Cut eases importing projects you started on an iPhone or iPad, letting you pick up with Final Cut's advanced tools where you left off with the touch- and consumer-friendly iMovie for iOS app.
  Winner: Apple Final Cut Pro X
  

• The Final Tally

  Apple may have alienated some professionals with its imaginative rethinking of the craft of video editing, but if nothing else, it's been a boon to prosumers and home video enthusiasts. Premiere Pro's sole audience is professional editors, though dedicated amateurs can certainly use it as long as they're not afraid of the learning curve.
  Intensive enthusiasts may want to bypass both for CyberLink PowerDirector, which is often first with new gear support, such as 360-degree VR content. Both Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro CC are PCMag Editors' Choices, as both are remarkably deep and powerful pieces of software that manage to present pleasing interfaces. But for our two main professional applications discussed here, the final tally shapes up as follows:
  

  Adobe Premiere Pro CC: 4
  Apple Final Cut Pro X: 5
  Tie: 8
  

  As you can see, for most topics, the two apps are at parity. Apple has a very slight edge, numerically, but keep in mind that this is a raw tally with no weighting, and your needs will dictate that some aspects far outweigh others. As I said at the start, both of these are magnificent pieces of software, and I hope this piece has shed some light on each program's relative strengths.

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• macOS 10.12 or later (10.13 or later required for hardware-acceleration)
• 16 GB minimum (32 GB recommended), 4 GB of GPU VRAM
• Fast internal SSD (recommended) for app installation and cache - plus provisional space for media
• 1920 x 1080 or greater display resolution
• 32-bit video card
• Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.*
• 10 Gigabit ethernet for 4K shared network workflow (1 Gb for HD only)

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