Which Editing App Gets You Hired for the Job YOU WANT?

Great vid man!

I started out with FCP for freelancing, moved to Premiere Pro for a company gig, and since leaving that have spent the last week taking a deep dive into Resolve and man! I cannot wait until these companies drop the adobe suite requirement for editing because I feel like Davinci Resolve blows Premiere away and it isn't even close. I still love FCP for putting the edit together and I'm currently trying to dial in my a workflow where I head over to Davinci to finish up. I would just stick completely with Davinci but that magnetic timeline is so hard to let go. Great video!

Thanks Rafael Ludwig

20 year old code sounds about right. When you crash in premiere your mouse turns into the the vintage watch icon from macOS 9

Agreed. I still find it amazing that my primary reason for switching to editing in Resolve for my personal projects in 2016 was due to wanting to cut out the XML process from PPro to Resolve and back for doing my color, it was probably the best choice because it improved so much over the years that I never opened PPro again after 2017 with the exception of getting PPro cut projects to color grade from other people. However, even there I'm finding less and less people sending PPro projects and more switching to Resolve. That makes me happier because the conform process from PPro has become a hassle due to issues with XML from it.

I literally sat in on an Advisory Board for a Technical College last year and made clear I will only look to hire people using DaVinci Resolve, and that Premiere editors are worthless to me. I also said I need editors who understand color management better. Too many editors don't know this basic aspect, and it is really annoying. They don't need to be a full fledged colorist, but they have to have a basic understanding of color management with multiple profiles from various cameras. I don't want people who just want a baked in look or who simply want to slap a LUT on it. I want people who understand how to normalize the footage from the LOG look so that they can at least edit. But maybe I'm just a snob who has too advanced knowledge of those advanced workflows.

I’ve gotten so frustrated with FCPX. I’ll use it and upload video and all of a sudden I’ll go from using 2 GB RAM to over 64 Ram and have to force quit. I’ve talked with Apple to resolve this issue until I’m blue in the face with no results.

Davinci and FCPX all I need social media CapCut and if you what a 9to 5 premier pro and you will get under pay

It's not that easy. I would never use something I don't enjoy using, like buggy, slow software from 1999. I would rather do a totally different job.

Wait what happened to premiere lumetri colors panels? It looks like light room, is that the new panel or some kind of plug in?!?!?!?

Right now most Job offers I See want Premiere Pro experience, but I switched to Resolve and hope it will be the future standard.

The jump cuts are amateurish and distracting. 👎

YOU should know better. 🤨

Resolve is the absolute king!

Avid NLE and ProTools are industry standard because of the industry user base investment in those tools but learning Resolve as a package will offer all the "transferable skills" that will still be relevant and extendable into the future. Adobe's monopoly over the years has kinda frozen the development of their tools... can After Effects ever become a more efficient real time node based editor???

Could you please tell which preset you are using for the titles? It looks cool. Please share the preset link for fcpx

Sad thing about client/business is most of them want it to be edited with Premiere. If I ask them if they need the project file, they say that they don't. It's heart breaking they care more of the software used rather than the output. Not all people are like this of course.

great note about "knowing Resolve" vs knowing any of the specific tools in Resolve

So I am working in FCP for about 10 months and feel pretty comfortable. As you say it just is the best for one person teams and fast editing.
As I am looking for a Job in that Field that also requires InDesign, Illustrator etc. Skills (I currently work with Affinity Apps), I guess the best is to get the Adobe Cloud, work hard to learn these apps and to get a job and then try to switch to DaVinci.
DaVinci is just sooo good, but for my current freelance work (adding Plugins, etc.) FCP is just unbeatable.
What's you thoughts on this?

It should be mentioned that the free version of Resolve is extremely limited.

I started with LumaFusion on the iPad; looked around for the next step (leap) up and decided to go with Resolve because it was free. Now, looking back, even if I had to pay the one time $400.00 it is still the most cost effective, and feature rich option.

There are several content creators for Resolve that switched from Premiere that have how to videos to help the transition. That said, agreeing with him here, reverse these how to videos and make sure you know something about the current industry standard.

No love for Vegas?

This is really interesting. Thank you! I do wonder though if people advertising jobs just put Adobe and Premiere Pro on because they don't know any better (sometimes you can tell from the job spec they don't...) and just think they should because it's seen as 'industry standard'. I see so many job adverts out there where knowledge of PP and Adobe is classed as a necessity, when you can see from the work already being produced by the firm that it really isn't. How many quality applicants are they immediately ruling out? And how much is it costing them a year for Adobe licences when they could just buy FCP once?

so final cut pro is the worst for getting a job. I was planning to buy color finale 2 for FCP but Now I think I should master Davinci for ColorGrade Specifically

My favs in order:
1. Davinci
2. Avid
3. Fcpx
4. Premier

Premier is horrible

Great video Rafael. Thanks for the great points. I find that I need to know all three of them. In the last month I’ve gotten paid to use all three at different times. It also depends on your locality. Around where I live in the Midwest, Final Cut Pro is widely used by tons of people and most production houses and clients don’t even really care what I use. Being well-versed in all of them is a strong recommendation from me.

Cool.

FCP and now Resolve for me these days. I still use Premiere on freelance gigs occasionally, but I really hate it.

In the company where I work I am the black sheep for editing in resolve, it becomes difficult sometimes due to the issue "compatibility with my colleagues" So you have to learn premiere. Although to be honest, editing in resolve feels so good, no lag, everything so fluid. It's beautiful except when you have to do typography... there it's the worst tool.

I ever use 3 of them ( Premiere Pro, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve )
Since I a Photoshop User before more than a decade,
So the Premiere Pro Always make sense to me
when I have an idea about how to Editing in the way I want.

In Case of the Final Cut,
I accept that it's really Fast & Smooth than PR.
But because I'm not the Real Fan of the Mac User.
And the Program Can't Respond the Way I thinks like PR.
So I just use it as an Easy Simple Speed Cut Editing.
( Because PR always Lag & Crashed. Ha ha ha )

Now, I use DaVinci Resolve the Most
for the Same Reason.
( PR always Lag & Crashed. Ha ha ha )

Even though, I Still pay for Adobe to use
other Adobe Creative Cloud Programs. Ha ha

Love the content but the focus breathing and hunting on that lens camera combo is crazy. Switch to manual Focus

I first mastered premiere then I moved too final cut since it was used during my time in school, I love both programs and I tend to bounce between them depending on how complex I want edits to be in what ever I recorded that being for school, work or social media I’m currently learning after effects and I can’t wait to master this program in the future because motion graphics has always been something I was amazed by.

Never happened because everyone used photoshop and audition that's why Adobe link is very powerful and most prefer. Davinci work people because cost less but for work always prefer premiere professional

Its resolved if u r a cc and a editor who shots in raw or want to do good color and hate pr's shiry subscribtion hand hate the crashes. Other than that pr is as small studios for ott also uses that. For film , come to a film school like i did

I have complely jumped the resove bandwagon and my pears r too.

Avid -TV and Film industry / Collaborative projects
Premiere Pro - After Effects integration and Encoding
Final Cut Pro- Mac Enthusiasts
Resolve - Color Correction

I just want to buy premiere. This monthly member gig is not for me. There for 'am going with final cut or da vinci and putting up with fushion frustration..🙄

As long time editor I worked with all of them and I can tell you can edit with all of them. As editor you will need sometimes to use more than one software for a client. I don't like when someone trying to put them on same track because there is more than software. A lot of people can't work with Avid just for the simple reason that they don't understand the Editing Idea behind it but Avid is real "Formula 1" if you know how to use it. Big companies does not using Avid because of the money they spent on it. There is nothing else for massive collaboration. For one man band it doesn't matter which one do you use and for most people movie maker or iMovie is good enough. but in TV or Film industry you will need AVID. Best way how to be good editor, after school try to get job in TV station. There is always demand for fast relatively precise editing in stress environment which is great practice for any job in the future.

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