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Choosing to use Adobe Premiere Pro for video editing on Mac is a sound decision. That said, you shouldn't feel defeated if you don't want to pay out each month for access, nor should you feel like there's little hope if you find it lacking in some way. Maybe you don't need all those features, or only want to edit simple video. Here are some excellent alternatives for video editing on macOS. Hint: we really, really like Final Cut Pro.

For professionals: Final Cut Pro

Adobe produces some exceptional software for both PC and Mac, but if you want something a little more close to home, try out Apple's own Final Cut Pro. Used by and designed for professionals, you'll be sure to locate everything you need in this powerful suite.

$299 at Apple

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Adobe Premiere Elements is the less-powerful sibling to Premiere Pro, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't consider it as a capable video editor on Windows 10. This software has more than enough to do basic and intermediate edits. The best part is you only need to pay out once.

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Free: iMovie

iMovie is Apple's free video editor for Macs. Think of it much like Microsoft's own Photos app (previously Windows Movie Maker). iMovie has the basics you need to cut and arrange files to create cool-looking home movies, but anything more than that you will want to fork out and buy more powerful software.

Free at Apple

User-friendly: Wondershare Filmora

Filmora from Wondershare is really easy to get into. It doesn't have quite as many advanced features as other professional software, but you'll still be able to create some awesome videos. You can try out all the features of Filmora for free without restriction. Purchasing a license removes watermarks and unlocks support channels.

$60 at Wondershare

Heavy duty: Lightworks

Just like Premiere Pro and Final Cut, Lightworks is designed for anyone to create compelling videos on their Mac. The best part is you can try out the software for free and pick up one of the licenses at a later date when you're happy with the available feature set.

Free at Lightworks

Shotcut

Shotcut is an interesting choice as it's a capable suite for video editing and happens to be completely free and open source. Available for both PC and Mac — allowing you to take advantage of the familiar interface on multiple platforms — you'll find many advanced features and tools found in pricey multi-track editing software.

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Choosing the right video editor

There are some fantastic options out there for Mac owners when it comes to video editing. A well-loved alternative to Premiere Pro is Final Cut Pro, especially for those who prefer using software developed by Apple and are looking for software backed by years of development.

If you don't have money to spare for software, free examples like Shotcut and even Apple's own iMovie can be used to create videos for sharing with friends and family. Whatever your style or budget, one of these suggestions should be a great fit.

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• Pros

  Simple interface. Syncs projects across devices. Good color and title tools. Easy sharing to social networks.

• Cons

  Short on video effects. Limited transitions. Requires subscription. Expensive if you're not already a CC subscriber. Can't specify output file format. Slow rendering. No storyboard templates.

• Bottom Line

  Adobe's easy video editor syncs projects between desktop and mobile, and makes sharing to multiple social platforms a cinch. Still in its infancy, Rush is slow at rendering projects, lacks many standard video effects, and is pricey unless you're already a CC subscriber.

Everyone wants to be a social media star these days, and Adobe wants to help with a new video-editing app. Adobe Rush is a streamlined version of Adobe's Premiere video editing program intended to address those users' need for content velocity—frequent social posts to multiple outlets including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and of course YouTube. Rush reminds me a lot of the simplified version of Lightroom, Lightroom CC. Like Lightroom CC, Rush syncs your video projects to the cloud and offers mobile clients with all the same tools in a smaller interface.

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Rush will certainly appeal to nonprofessional video editors who don't want to tinker with Premiere Pro's multitude of panels and controls. However, it's slow to render video, and it lacks a lot of capabilities found in other software, such as green screen, multicam, motion tracking, freeze-frame, and more. Users may hesitate to pay a monthly fee for the privilege, when they could just use a free app like Apple iMovie, which has a lot of the same capabilities; though it is, of course, limited to Apple's ecosystem.

Pricing and Starting Up

You can get a standalone app subscription that includes all the Rush mobile and desktop apps for $9.99 per month. That means $120 per year, which is more than you'd pay for a permanent license for Adobe Premiere Elements ($99.99) PowerDirector ($99.99), Corel VideoStudio ($79.99), or Magix Movie Edit Pro ($69.99)—not to mention iMovie, which is free with Apple's computers.

Rush is, however, included with a full Creative Cloud subscription and Premiere Pro single app subscriptions. Full subscriptions cost $52.99 per month for individuals, while students and teachers pay only $19.99. Finally, there's a free Premiere Rush CC Starter Plan. This is a trial option that gives you all of Rush's features and unlimited project creation but limits you to exporting just three projects. The standard subscription comes with 100GB of cloud storage, upgradable to 10TB at extra cost.

The app runs on 64-bit Windows 7 through Windows 10, macOS Sierra (10.12) or later, and iOS 11 or later. An Android app is planned for next year.

Getting Started With Adobe Premiere Rush

After installation, you have to sign into your Adobe Creative Cloud account, so that your media can sync between devices. On the first run of the program, you're treated to a tutorial that shows tooltips pointing to the screen elements you'll be using. You start by entering a title for your project. Next, you select media for the project. It's added to your timeline in the order you select, unless it's audio. Then you just hit Create.

A Simple Interface

The Rush interface, as mentioned, looks a lot like that of Lightroom CC (not to be confused with Lightroom Classic). It's very easy on the eyes. Side panels hide themselves when you're not using them. Your source panel is on the left, and effects and adjustments are on the right. Of course, there are differences, since we're working with video. A nice touch is that when you hover the mouse pointer over a control a bit, an illustrated tooltip pops up telling you how to use the feature.

The Home screen is as simple as it gets, with large thumbnails for your projects and a big Create a New Project button, along with Help links. Though you almost don't need them to use the product, there are standard menu options across the top: File, Edit, Clip, Sequence, View, and Help. One option in Preferences (under the Edit menu) is useful: You can tell the program to prerender your video for smoother playback.

A simplified timeline runs across the bottom, and editing buttons like scissors for splitting a clip, the garbage can icon for deleting, and track visibility controls are on the lower left side. Beneath the video preview are the standard Play/Pause, step by frame, or go to next edit point controls. You also see the time codes and frame numbers below the video preview. There's also a full-screen view button, and if you click on the video preview, handles appear for cropping and resizing—especially handy if you forget and shoot with your iPhone in portrait mode. The Transform button along the right adds even more options, like rotation, opacity, and edge feather.

The tracks remind me of those in iMovie and Final Cut Pro X (which Apple calls 'trackless'); they're free floating, rather than regimented into fixed tracks. You can drag multiple tracks above the top one. Though it's not called out as a feature in particular, combining this capability with the transform tools lets you do PiP effects with resizing and overlay effects with opacity. But you don't get an assortment of PiP presets like you do in PowerDirector.

As with most nonlinear video editing programs, you can drag clips to reposition them, and hide, mute, and lock tracks.

Few Transitions

There are only three transition types, and yes, they are the classic ones that most video producers approve of: Cross Dissolve, Dip to Black, and Dip to white. There are occasions, especially among YouTubers that want to dazzle you, when video producers want to do something more fun. Competitors like PowerDirector and even iMovie offers over 20 transitions, and some, like Premiere Elements and Pinnacle Studio, let you create your own custom transitions.

Customize Your Color

Getting the color language can be critical to creating an appealing digital movie or a viral social post. The better Hollywood movies have color languages all their own, to produce a unique emotional response. Rush offers 11 color style presets. Tapping the panel's Edit option lets you customize Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Temperature, Tint, Vibrance, and Saturation. An Advanced set of tools goes beyond that to let you add a Faded Film effect, Sharpening, and Vignette. Once you've got things to your taste, you can save these edits as a custom preset.

Staid Title Templates

There are 36 motion title templates to choose from, and editing them is WYSIWYG on the video preview. Once again, the choices are pretty staid, with none of the transparency or other effects I've been seeing in other consumer video editing software. Scoff if you will, but CyberLink reps told me that their users were asking for zany things like flames and electric currents coming off titles, so they added those effects to PowerDirector. To Rush's credit, though, it does let you edit the font, color, size, spacing, and opacity of the titles.

Audio Editing

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You can show your clips' audio waveforms from a button in the lower-left toolbar, but you can't drag the waveforms up and down to raise and lower their volume, nor can you detach a clip's audio. You can, however adjust clip volume from the right-side Audio panel. This also provides and Auto duck option that lowers background music during talking in the movie. Adobe provides 10 prefab soundtracks to fit different moods, but it doesn't auto-fit them to your movie, as Pinnacle Studio can. You can also use your own music files.

Mobile Video Editing

The same guided tutorial takes you through the steps of creating a video on your iOS device. In fact, everything in the desktop is available in the mobile app, but with controls rearranged for small screen touch input. You can customize color settings, transitions, add titles, and work with audio. If you go back and forth between editing on different devices, you'll get a dialog offering to create a copy so that you don't lose edits.

Sharing and Output in Adobe Rush

The Share main tab is always at the ready, no matter what you're doing in the app. You can simply save to local storage, but the pre-configured social output options are where Rush shines. You can easily send your projects to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Adobe's own Behance community for creative professionals. I would like to see Vimeo added to this list, since that offers creators a way to charge money for their work, as well as of course Twitter. Another major limitation is that, while you can select frame rate and resolution (up to 2160p), you can't actually specify the file type or codec. Most consumer video editors let you do this. If you want to take your Rush project further, you can open it in Premiere Pro for full-power editing and output options.

What's Missing?

While you can do a lot of great editing easily with Rush, it doesn't provide a lot of the more-advanced effects that have been found in consumer video editors like PowerDirector for years: green screen, motion tracking, multicam, masking, and freeze-frame and other time manipulation. Adobe has noted that video speedup and slowdown capability is in the works for later updates.

Another missing piece that's especially relevant to a product targeting beginners is the lack of any storyboard templates like those in iMovie and PowerDirector. These show nonprofessionals how to structure their videos, rather than just giving them editing and enhancing tools.

Slow Rendering

Importing, adding, and scrubbing video in Rush was reasonably rapid on my test PC, an Asus Zen AiO Pro Z240IC running 64-bit Windows 10 Home and sporting a 4K touch display, 16GB RAM, a quad-core Intel Core i7-6700T CPU, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M discrete graphics card. Rush uses proxy video files to make working with it snappy. The program wasn't completely stable, however, though an update improved that.

I couldn't build the exact rendering test project I use for video software with Rush, since it doesn't include all the transition types I use, but I used the same clips with the available transitions. Nor does Rush let you specify output attributes like bitrate or codec, so I chose the closest one, 1080p Full HD at 29.97 fps.

Even without the fancy transitions, the resulting render time trailed most of the consumer video apps I've tested. The test project (whose duration is just under 5 minutes) took 8:02 (min:sec) to render in Rush. That compares with 6:21 for Adobe Premiere Elements, 4:20 for Corel VideoStudio, and 1:54 for Pinnacle Studio, and 1:29 for PowerDirector. To be fair, Adobe noted in its blog post about Rush that they were working on the program's performance.

Has Potential, But No Need to Rush

Rush doesn't do anything new. It just makes doing things you could already do simpler and more streamlined. If you're looking for software that supports every new video technology that comes down the pike, you'd do well to look at CyberLink's PowerDirector. Even Adobe Premiere Elements, Pinnacle Studio, and Corel VideoStudio are better suited to enthusiasts who want to add the latest effects. Rush is more about what its name indicates: Getting that post or vlog out fast!

Rush can definitely produce presentable videos. It's also expensive (unless you're already paying for a Creative Cloud subscription) and is the slowest performer on our rendering test. For almost the same functionality, look to iMovie, PCMag's Editors' Choice for video editing on macOS and iOS. For lots more editing power, rendering speed, and effects, check out our Editors' Choice video editing software for Windows, PowerDirector.

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Bottom Line: Adobe's easy video editor syncs projects between desktop and mobile, and makes sharing to multiple social platforms a cinch. Still in its infancy, Rush is slow at rendering projects, lacks many standard video effects, and is pricey unless you're already a CC subscriber.

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