In today’s world of video editing, the two video editing software raised their worth through their outstanding features which are CapCut and Premiere Pro. They both have their own weaknesses and strengths, but which one is superior from the other? If you are a video editor, content creator, movie maker, or social media user, it is essential that you have gone through with the struggle of choosing the right video editing software. The debate has been going on for several years about which one is the best because both software have its organic users and followers. But today, we are going to end the battle of choosing the right software between CapCut and Premiere Pro. In this article, we will describe deeply into their features, capabilities, and the experiences of the users of CapCut and Premiere Pro, to declare a best and right software in the battle for video editing supremacy.
CapCut
CapCut is known as the most friendly and easy-to-use video editing software among all the video editing software. The CapCut is serving as an ideal video editing tool for YouTube video editors. CapCut offers free downloading on Windows, App Store, and Play Store and more than 500 million users have already used this software on Windows, Mac, and Android mobile phones. If you are using the operating system, you can directly edit your content through the browser version of CapCut. This software is unique and easy to use and anyone can understand it after installing it the first time.
Capcut Interface
Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere has no browser version because it is not an online video editing software and it is only available for the Adobe subscribers. It is also considered as one of the most popular and professional video editing software among all the video editing software. The reason for its success is that Nine million people are expert and professional in using Adobe Premiere Pro and are expected to grow further ahead. The success rate of the software is indicated by its 4.7-star rating by its users. The software offers free downloading and a free seven-day trial for its users. The Premiere Pro can be downloaded and operated on windows and macOS. If we look at the video editing software for android, Adobe Premiere Pro is not available for the android users, but the app called Adobe Premiere Rush which looks similar to Adobe Premiere Pro with its features and capabilities.
Adobe Premiere Pro Interface
Pricing
The both platform offers free version, One-off payments, and paid subscription, scroll down to see the pricing system of both platforms and select which platform is worth using.
- CapCut’s Pricing system: In the free version of CapCut, It contains various premium features such as the user can choose their favorite music, 4k video resolution, unique video editing effects, transitions, filters, and much more. Some highlighting features of CapCut include auto-captions, removing backgrounds, upscaling videos, AI-based color correction, intro and outro, color grading, slow motion, time-lapse, and much more. However, there are some features that can only be accessed by upgrading it to the Pro version. It offers some extra premium transitions, unique templates, extra wide tools and features. The user can easily upgrade and choose between three packages monthly, one-month and yearly. The user can get a monthly package from $7.99 and can upgrade it yearly from $74.99. Each subscription offers a 7-day free trial and can also sign up for one month without subscription for $9.99.
- Pricing system of Premiere Pro: Adobe Premiere pro is a part of Adobe creative cloud. To use Adobe Premiere Pro, it takes Adobe’s subscription model. But the user can take the deal of a single Adobe Premiere Pro plan. The Adobe Premiere Pro offers a 7-day free trial before taking a subscription. The Adobe creative suite which includes over 20 Adobe apps which cost $59.99 per month and Adobe Premiere Pro alone is available for $22.99 per month.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Features
AI has now changed the world of video editing because it can convert raw footage into high quality visuals. So, which software provides the best AI feature? The AI details about the AI features of both software are given below:
- CapCut: CapCut offers a wide range of AI tools for both video editing and image editing. Much of these are available for free and some pro features are paid. CapCut also offers magic tools which are not genuinely AI based but it offers similar AI features. Some of the AI and magic tools are:
- Auto-captions
- AI story generator
- Long video to short
- Removing backgrounds
- upscaling videos
- AI-based color correction
- Magic eye-tracking effect
- Auto cuts
- Script to video
- Premiere Pro: Adobe Premiere Pro also offers AI video editing features and tools which use Adobe sense artificial intelligence technology built into the Adobe software. Some of the major AI features in Adobe Premiere Pro are:
- Auto color
- Text to speech
- Speech to text captioning
- Scene edit detection
- Auto sound remixing
- Auto key framing
- Morph cut transitions
- Text based editing
Storage
Both of the software offers cloud storage, the pricing system and cloud storage’s details are given below.
- CapCut: CapCut offers 1 GB of lifetime storage for free but the user can purchase extra storage of 10 GB per for $1. The user can get extra storage for inviting new users, video exporting. This extra storage is only valid for 45 days. On the other hand CapCut users get 100 GB extra storage to store their personal videos and projects.
- Premiere Pro: The storage of Premiere pro is based on cloud storage. The user can get 100 GBs or cloud storage by subscribing to the Adobe All’s plans or Premiere Pro subscriber plan.
Templates
Both of these video editing software provides a range of templates. The videos uploaded on social media, the user often preferred the templates. So, which software provides the wide range of templates for video editing, let’s have a look:
- CapCut: CapCut is heavily influenced by the editing of short videos. CapCut has the same parent company as TikTok, because of this, the user can find Variety of trending templates, AI templates for videos and as well as for audio and images. The editor cannot edit the keyframes, timings, or other aspects of CapCut templates; but the user can only edit placeholders within templates, such as images and text.
- Premiere Pro: The Adobe Premiere Pro offers very limited video editing templates through the subscription. They are less trendy as compared to the CapCut. The templates include transition animations, animated backgrounds, motion overlays, and lower thirds. The editor can also make lower third designs in After Effects then use in Premiere Pro. The Adobe Premiere Pro is primarily focused on editing original videos The editor can edit the templates as he would edit original videos within Premiere Pro: placing, editing, and moving keyframes, as well as changing the colors of elements, removing elements, or duplicating them.
Which One is better?
It depends on the needs of the editor and how skillful he is. CapCut is free and easy for quick edits. It’s great for editing fun videos, like popular TikTok videos, short reels, and trending videos. On the other hand, Adobe Premiere Pro can be used for professional and creative video editing. It is powerful but takes time to learn and is not free.