Adobe Premiere Rush is an interesting program it is designed to help you edit a video project quickly on any modern platform. It has some very interesting concepts and you can indeed edit at speed even allowing you to create complex edits should you need to but the special effects are lacking and the loss of syncing between devices-which used to be feature is a huge disappointment still it is free and as such is definitely worth a look.
Cons
- Lacking in advanced effects.
- Can feel restrictive.
- Loss of syncing functionality.
Pros
- Easy to use
- Multi platform
- Hidden power features
- Well designed
Premiere Pro is Adobe high end video editor so it is not for
everyone. Heck even regular old Premiere Elements can feel too powerful to some.
Is not there something incredibly simple that can work on both computers and
mobile devices? Enter Adobe Premiere Rush.
As the name implies it is all about cutting content quickly.
It is ranked among our best video editing apps with its emphasis on ease of use
and simplicity for creating the social media or marketing content. I took a
look at the latest version to see how it fares.
Interface
We were pleasantly surprised to see that the interface is
remarkably similar whether you are working on a computer phone or tablet. It is
not identical mind as the aim is to play to each platforms strengths but at
least the tools are grouped together.
For instance those to control and manipulate Graphics. Effects
color correction Speed adjustments Audio and cropping can be found top right on
a computer but at the bottom of the screen on a phone. Icons to control
expanding the audio layers revealing control tracks cutting deleting and
duplicating a selected clip are all on a sidebar lower left of a phone screen
separated from the others by a divider line.
This may feel like the interface is different but such
changes are actually minor and as the icons are identical. It will take you
seconds to recognize what you are after and learn where they are positioned
when moving from one device to another.
Perhaps the biggest difference between devices is how the
playhead behaves. On a computer it acts as you would expect a video editor
playhead to click and drag it to another location to skim through your footage
or click on another location on your timeline for it to jump to that point. On a
mobile device that playhead remains fixed at the centre the project itself
moves left or right as you place your finger on the screen and drag left or
right.
Effects
Premiere Rush comes with a handful of effects such as animated
overlays be they text layers lower thirds or animated transitions and they are
all applied on a second layer. Each graphic is fully customizable with
changeable parameters appearing when you select it.
Aside from those animated transitions you will also find a
handful of Standard ones in the effects section along with Pan and Zoom and
Reframe tools. We were somewhat disappointed the pan and Zoom tool only worked
on photos.
We quite like that you can make colors adjustments either
based on the filters or through manual alterations and save those changes as
new presets you can use and apply on other clips. But Sadly we found the Speed
alteration tool to be very basic. We could not detect any frame blending. Instead
the slower the clip became the more the video stuttered as the frames were
simply copied to accommodate for the increased length.
Editing
The aim of Premiere Rush is to help you to create a project
very quickly and with that in mind it uses what Final Cut Pro and CapCut users
would recognize as a magnetic timeline which means when you alter the length of
a clip in your project you do not end up with a gap between it and any clip
that you had added further along the timeline. Instead they all move to fill that
gap. Extend a clip and they are all pushed forward. You can easily swap the
order of the clips and no gap is ever left in your timeline. This actually
helps you to build an edit incredibly quickly.
Sharing and
Syncing
When it comes to sharing you can export your project to your
local drive or upload it to YouTube Facebook Instagram and Behance. You even
have access to some advanced format settings if you need them which is great for
the pro users.
There is however a feature that is no longer present and
feels like a great loss you used to be able to sync your project between
various devices as long as they were all logged in to the same Adobe ID. This allowed
you to work on your phone and continue editing on your computer and vice versa
giving you the great flexibility. Adobe nuked that functionality in 2024.
