Adobe Premiere Pro review

Premiere Pro has the deepest toolset in this list, and its recent releases target the slow parts of YouTube editing. Media intelligence searches visuals, transcripts and metadata across thousands of shots, and can find specific sounds or similar shots by description. Generative Extend adds AI frames to the start or end of a clip when a shot is too short. Speech to Text and Translate Captions build multilingual captions, and bulk bleep or mute cleans up words across the whole timeline. Adobe also lists 90+ GPU-accelerated effects and transitions, live waveform editing and native panels for Adobe Stock and Frame.io, and projects started in Premiere on iPhone continue on desktop. The trade-offs are cost and complexity: it is sold as a subscription, and Adobe's plans page did not show prices from our location, so the USD price is pending. Solo creators often get similar results from DaVinci Resolve for free.

Who it is for

Established channels and editors who already use Adobe apps or work with a team.

Price

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Key features

• Generative Extend adds AI frames to the start or end of a clip
• Media intelligence searches visuals, transcripts and metadata
• Speech to Text with Translate Captions
• Bulk bleep or mute of unwanted words across the timeline
• 90+ GPU-accelerated effects and transitions

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Deepest feature set in this list
• Strength: Projects move from Premiere on iPhone to desktop
• Strength: Adobe Stock and Frame.io panels inside the app
• Weakness: Subscription only, and the plans page did not load prices from our location
• Weakness: More complex than Final Cut Pro or CapCut
• Weakness: Generative AI features depend on Adobe's AI tools

Key facts

• AI: Generative Extend, media intelligence, Translate Captions
• Mobile: Premiere on iPhone sends projects to desktop
• Stock: Over 835 million Adobe Stock assets in the app
• Pricing: USD check pending

Where it ranks

Adobe Premiere Pro is No. 6 in our Best Video Editing Software for YouTubers verdict.