Premiere

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “i have to break out my macbook for lightroom and premiere still”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “The frustration of Premiere's instability was the main thing that drove me to open-source software”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “my partner and I have had great luck replacing AfterEffects and Premiere with Blender and DaVinci Resolve, respectively”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-07

• “I used to generate 3-4 separate clips and stitch them in Premiere. Now I get a coherent 10-15 second sequence in one pass.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-14

• “There is zero reason to have Media Encoder be its own separate program when it can be integrated into Premiere and AE on its own, which can repeatedly cause connection/bug issues if they're not able to sync properly”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-24

• “We got frustrated trying to accomplish simple tasks in video editors like DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro. Features are hidden behind menus, buttons, and icons”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-11-19

• “I had a stock demo that compared each FCP 7 feature and how to do it on Premiere Pro. I won most over at the end. It got even better as Adobe started to copy feature after feature from FCP 7 so many users were happy they made the move.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-18

• “It cool I used premiere pro in college and I dont have the energy to learn Davinci”

  LUKEWARM · Reddit · 2025-05-16

• “Things slow down when I'm in After Effects or Premiere if I don't shut down some apps”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-16

• “I use Premiere's AI transcription to read through whole interviews”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-07

• “Premiere is the only video editor I've used that has consistently good response time for me and is intuitive enough I have no trouble with it”

  POSITIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-04-26