Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe's video editor, the default in most professional edit bays
Cuts long-form video: podcasts, YouTube uploads, anything shot on several cameras across hours of footage. It costs a monthly subscription, it is heavy on the machine, and it is one reason creators stay on Windows or Mac rather than moving to Linux. Editors tend to pick it for everything built around it rather than for one feature.
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Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Lex FridmanDoes it
AI researcher · Lex Fridman Podcast
Calls himself a Linux person who stays on Windows anyway, because of Premiere and the rest of Adobe. For a long time that meant running Linux inside Windows through WSL, which he says is not the good kind of Linux.
Source: Lex Fridman Podcast: DHH transcript - Tiago ForteDoes it
Productivity writer · Building a Second Brain
Edits in Premiere and pays for it inside Adobe's annual Creative Cloud subscription. His reason is not the feature list, which he calls bloated and hard to learn, but compatibility: staying on the industry standard means formats and plugins keep working. Free editors exist, he adds, though he cannot vouch for them.
Source: fortelabs.com: My Complete Gear Kit for Filming a Personal Documentary
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