

Premiere Pro is now only available by subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud. Those used to traditional nonlinear digital video editing will applaud Premiere's familiar approach, but in its favor, Final Cut offers some innovative tools like connected clips, auditions, and a trackless timeline that can ease the work of editors. While Apple made a drastic break with the past when it updated Final Cut Pro X, Adobe continues to take an incremental approach, polishing the interface and adding state-of-the art tools to its professional video editing software, Premiere Pro CC.

All of this makes Premiere well worthy of an ditors' Choice award for professional-level video-editing software. It has also added class-leading collaboration capabilities.

Since my last look at the massive application, it has added support for 360 VR content, 4K (and higher) and HDR video, and the Lumetri Color tool. Adobe Premiere Pro deserves its place as the industry standard video editing software, thanks to its familiar nonlinear editing interface, unmatched ecosystem of tools, and powerful set of capabilities.
