Beginner on Adobe Premiere VS. Pro on iMovie - Editing Showdown! By Parker Walbeck

Hey Len check this out. It's dope software, I can cut splice and I can drag and drop iMovie dude iMovie. It's him he's even wearing a mask. Hmm, what's up guys Jake wisely here from fulltimefilmmaker. com, and this is the beginner versus pro rematch. A few weeks ago, josh and I went head-to-head in a shootout where he was given a 30, 000 red cinema camerae, and I was given a 600 canon sl2.

We went up against each other to see how much experience versus gear compare in this profession. A lot of you were asking that we did a rematch, but this time a post-production rematch. So today josh, and I will once again be going head-to-head in an editing, competition josh on Adobe Premiere, pro adobe's premium, video editing service that cost almost 400 per year, and I will be editing on iMovie, which is apple's beginner home video entry level, editing software. The point of this competition is really only one fold can experience trump equipment we'll find out. The footage josh and I will be editing- was shot by Landon by the way who was creating a fan-made commercial.

For ghost long board a company, we love Landon's, going to be the one judging the final edits, because we thought it was fair that josh, and I edited someone else's footage so that neither of us had the creative upper hand in the editing room with telling the story. Josh has been using premiere pro for a little over three months now, and I haven't touched iMovie since eighth grade. So this is going to be very interesting. Josh now will have two hours to edit our footage, and then we'll come back here with Landon and get his critique on what he likes and doesn't like about each edit. Here we go.

Oh, no. I cannot see my audio levels. I have no idea how loud this interprets so great right. Now, I'm just struggling with the clips and what music to pick oh auto, I could do auto and am I doing any special effects um? Yes, I am with all the transition options I get to do from the effects tab. I get a pic like cross, dissolve zoom, iris and all that stuff, like that.

I have no idea, and now I'm just working on color grading, that's practically it and skin tones all right. Furthermore, I just finished a rough cut of my edit overall is pretty limited, I'm proud of it, but didn't get to do some of the things I was hoping. Furthermore, I was able to do with this gorgeous footage. Now, I'm going to go through and attempt to color correct and try to color grade this footage. iMovie does have some clip filters, but in my opinion, they're super intense, and you can't tone them down at all, so I'm just going to go with the temperature and the contrast and see if I can make this footage somewhat stand out and somewhat cinematic.

I don't know Jake's a pro, so I'm still kind of nervous. All right. We are in the judging room super excited to see how these guys interpreted the footage. I did shoot all this footage with a specific story in mind, so I'm curious to see how josh wanted to tell the story how Jake wanted to tell a story. Let's watch josh's edit first in premiere pro here we go all right, good job, josh, great little video, the overall pacing was significantly slower than I personally would have done that again.

That's just how I would have approached this video, so no big deal there as far as the technical aspects go through it looks like this timeline was I'm going to assume it's 60 frames per second, I shot all these clips at 60 frames per second just in case. I wanted to slow it down kind of a bummer there that he didn't bring that down to 24, because I think it would have really enhanced the overall video and just made it feel even more cinematic, especially if you're going for that slow paced, vibe, 24 frames per second would have been perfect for this and looks like he did throw a little of a color grade on that. As far as sound design goes in premiere pro I mean you have unlimited layers of audio and video that you can use. I don't think I heard any sound design in there would have loved to see some sound effects. Audio is obviously half of the viewing experience in a program like premiere pro.

I would definitely put some sound effects in there and start layering those, so you can really immerse yourself in that video, but if I was the client, if I owned this long board company- and I saw this video- I think I'd be happy with it, but I would love to have it be just a little more condensed down. I would keep it under a minute personally, and I just think the pacing is too slow for a high engaging post on social media. All right. Let's move on to Jake's edit. He did all of this in iMovie and obviously Jake is a seasoned videographer, so in premiere pro, he probably would have killed this curious to see how he managed in iMovie, because obviously it has a lot less tools than premiere pro.

So let's take a look: okay, honestly for iMovie. That is seriously impressive. I didn't expect it to be quite that good. To be completely frank, I love the color, I'm not sure if he just added contrast or what he did. I mean there's not a lot of color correcting.

You can actually do in iMovie so curious how he managed that first thing that I noticed right when it started is the aspect ratio looks like he put some letterbox on the top and the bottom. You do what you have to do in iMovie. I don't think there's a native. You know aspect ratio that you can choose, so it works, but you know I can tell that you added those letter boxes. The sound design on this video is honestly kind of insane.

I'm not sure how many layers you can actually use inside iMovie, but, however many it is clearly Jake used all of them, because there's just so much going on, I felt a lot more immersed in this video as a whole. Just because I could hear the skateboards I could hear like the sirens. For example, I could hear the traffic and the train and all that so overall, just much more immersed, just a faster paced video in general, he used a faster paced song and as a client. If I were to see this, I honestly think I'd be a little more hyped about this video, because I know it's going to create engagement like when I was just watching that I was really involved just because of the sound design because of the pacing. It was happening so quickly, all the shots he used were beautiful, color correcting was on point so overall, if I was the owner of this long board company, I think I would go with Jake's edit on this one.

But if you look back at josh's edits from five six weeks ago, when we did that first video, if you watch that video, and then you watch this video that he just did it's really apparent that he's been working on his editing game, so major props to josh on that one premiere pro is a beast. It just takes a while to get used to there's so many controls, honestly, almost too many. Sometimes that gives iMovie even a little of an advantage, but overall josh has improved immensely, so great job josh. So obviously, I'm the one that shot all that footage and I had a vision in my head of how I wanted that video to go so real. Quick here is my version of that long board video all right.

So I think we can all agree that Landon's edit was pretty dope, but guys at the end of the day. I think that just goes to show that you don't need the fanciest and best of everything you don't need the nicest equipment you need, the nicest software. What you do need is the skills a client doesn't want to hire you because of what equipment you have and what software you edit on a client wants you because of what you can do for them and whether you're given a canon, sl2 or apple's iMovie. You want to be confident enough in the skills you have as a filmmaker as an editor, to produce a high quality result and guys, honestly. That is why we created full-time filmmaker.

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Source : Parker Walbeck