Adobe Premiere Pro vs. DaVinci Resolve

Adobe Premiere Pro

613 Reviews and Ratings

DaVinci Resolve

104 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Premiere Pro	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Adobe offers their video editing platform Adobe Premiere Pro, supporting video and audio editing as well as VR presentations, available as part of the company's Creative Cloud suite or as a standalone application.	$22.99 per month
DaVinci Resolve	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Australian company Blackmagic Design offers their video editing application DaVinci Resolve for a wide range of high quality ultra HD effects, render queue, and video uploading options among other features.	$0 Free

Pricing

Adobe Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Premiere Pro Single App: $22.99
per month
Adobe Creative Cloud - All Apps: $59.99
per month
Adobe Creative Cloud - Students and Teachers: $59.99
per month
Adobe Creative Cloud - Business: $89.99
per month per seat

DaVinci Resolve 17: $0.00
Free
DaVinci Resolve Studio 17: $295.00
perpetual license

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Premiere Pro	DaVinci Resolve
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

Discounts available for student and teacher plan.

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	Adobe Premiere Pro	DaVinci Resolve
Considered Both Products	Adobe Michael Craven Owner/President/CEO in Professional Services at P.C. 911 (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro DaVinci Resolve works nicely (though some things have a different flow compared to Adobe Premiere Pro). More importantly though, whenever I ran into a limitation with DaVinci Resolve, I can always find a solution with Adobe Premiere Pro. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Premiere Pro DaVinci Resolve is a powerful editing and color-grading application, and the base version is free. However, I've found that with the Lumetri Color panel in Premiere, I really have no need for Resolve as it meets all of my needs. Additionally, I've found Resolve to be lacking in … Incentivized Helpful? Ignacio Lopez Editor at NBC (Motion Pictures & Film, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro works great on both Mac OS and Windows OS. Avid not so much. Incentivized Helpful? Fabio Zenoardo Media Creator in Professional Services at Fabio Zenoardo Photography (Photography, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Probably better for the color part, and free, but very very unintuitive and slower workflow. Incentivized Helpful? Walter Aho Creative Director at Lake Superior Christian Church (Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Each editor has its pros and cons. I tend to not like node-based editing, so the sliders, faders, and effects that I feel comfortable with in Photoshop and other similar programs are reflected in PPs UI. The more recently added hardware acceleration makes editing RAW 4K footage … Incentivized Helpful? Jonathan Cantu Marketing Project Manager in Marketing at Billingsley Co. (Real Estate, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro I think Adobe Premiere is more robust and definitely a bit more for the technical creative and editor. FCPX is good but it feels more barebones compared to what is possible with Adobe Premiere Pro. I also prefer its easy integration with the rest of the Adobe Premiere Suite. … Incentivized Helpful? Joel McAfee Producer in Professional Services at lilDRAGON (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro Premiere Pro is certainly one of the more useful and reliable NLE out there. I would be comfortable editing nearly any project on it and have confidence it would handle nearly any format in a stable and efficient manner. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hecox Business Owner in Marketing at Lucky Whisker LLC (Online Media, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Premiere Pro iMovie is great for video editing unless you want to make money in video production. If you've got the income and a lot of reasons to learn editing techniques, I recommend learning Premiere Pro before touching iMovie. Incentivized Helpful?	Blackmagic Design Verified User Chose DaVinci Resolve Adobe Premiere Pro is now a subscription-based software. The yearly cost is fairly high and keeps increasing. There is no option to pay once, you keep paying as long as you want to use it. I have been able to do everything I want/need to do in DaVinci Resolve, with no cost for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose DaVinci Resolve DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro are similar, but in leagues of their own. We often use both products interchangeably as they can certainly complement one another. Overall, because of the more intuitive workflow for finalizing and coloring a video in DaVinci Resolve, we … Incentivized Helpful? Dan Talvi Audio / Visual Coordinator at GST BOCES (Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees) Chose DaVinci Resolve DaVinci Resolve is a fantastic free option. For a while, we utilized DaVinci Resolve as our primary video editing software as it allowed us to produce high-quality videos for our marketing and services with low start-up cost. However, as our needs progressed, we eventually made … Incentivized Helpful? Fred Xorla Adzoyi Programs Director in Research & Development at ResourceWand (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose DaVinci Resolve DaVinci has been our preferred tool versus Adobe Premiere. One reason is that its cleaner interface helps make learning easier. Secondly, it handles work on audio components absolutely way better than Adobe does. Thirdly, the features that come with the free version of DaVinci … Incentivized Helpful? Aubrey Kall Owner in Corporate at Luminous Harmony (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose DaVinci Resolve DaVinci Resolve has a comparable learning curve to the other video editing platforms that I have used. I like the DaVinci Resolve allows me to export videos for free and without a watermark, and still has just as many features as Adobe Premiere. It definitely renders faster … Incentivized Helpful? Shubham Verma Video Editor in Information Technology at SpiceUp Media (Media Production, 11-50 employees) Chose DaVinci Resolve I am selecting this for cool transitions, effects, and titles. I can export my files to any of the formats such as mp4, mov, mpeg, etc. DaVinci Resolve workspace is very easy to use. I can edit the video in very easy steps with sound, effect, color touch-up, and HDR Grading. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose DaVinci Resolve It has a free version that is very complete. It lets everyone on the team use a lot of very good tools for video editing that would be very expensive while using other solutions that are equally excellent but not as generous. The cost is a very good reason but not the only one, … Incentivized Helpful? Camille Chevalier monteuse in Social Media at Internship (Graphic Design, 1-10 employees) Chose DaVinci Resolve I believe DaVinci Resolve is doing a great job facing Premiere Pro. First it's free but still really complete and lets you do a LOT of [different] things. It's also have many good options or effects. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Burke Customer Marketing Manager in Marketing at ClearCompany Talent Management Software (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose DaVinci Resolve Davinci Resolve is MUCH cheaper than Adobe's video tools, but is harder to learn and lacks the rest of Adobe's image editing and design tools. Pricing is comparable to Final Cut Pro X, but Final Cut is Mac-only, and you have to purchase motion graphics and compression tools … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose DaVinci Resolve For a small business, DaVinci's price point (free / $300) makes it a strong competitor to Adobe Premiere. FCP costs roughly the same, but then DaVinci's color correction is better. If you do not need all the color correction options, then even the free version could be an option. Incentivized Helpful? Matt Graf Assistant Director of Production for Online Learning Video at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Media Production, 51-200 employees) Chose DaVinci Resolve I've also used Adobe Speedgrade and the built-in color correction capabilities within Adobe Premiere. Neither one of those are as robust or perform to the caliber that DaVinci Resolve does. It is on the next level in terms of color correction and creating a high-quality look … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Adobe Premiere Pro	DaVinci Resolve
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (82 ratings)	9.0 (20 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (2 ratings)	9.9 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	3.2 (16 ratings)	1.4 (5 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)