[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Anthony,

Marc has already given you excellent advice, and if he can find you an engineer, even better.

My intial thought when I saw your post, was in part about whether the camera is running hot?

The other is the “hidden” trouble that users have experienced in recent years with SanDisk Extreme Pro SD Cards that are causing Photo and Video file corruption.
Initially it was thought to be only relvant to specific Sony cameras, but it is looking more widespread.

There is plenty of posts across the web on this point.

Most recent that I could find, without searching for too long, is from March:

https://forums.sandisk.com/t/sandisk-extreme-pro-sd-cards-frequently-cause-file-corruption-resulting-in-defects-in-photos-and-videos/418468

Some of the answers may be helpful to you.

Atb
Mads

forums.sandisk.com

SanDisk Extreme Pro SD cards frequently cause file corruption, resulting in defects in photos and videos

Hello everyone, I am a photographer and have been using SanDisk Extreme Pro SD cards for many years without ever encountering any issues. However, recently, several of the new cards I purchased have started to malfunction severely, resulting in the … Continue reading

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Jessica,

What are your source files and/or data?

Atb
Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

In other words; you are too lazy to put in the time yourself to find out what works best for you:
Adobe Premiere Pro or BlackMagic Davinci.

Taking in to account that one of those are free, what have you got to lose, escept for time?

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Patrick,

Now you are moaning again over people being helpful to you, but not giving the answer that you were looking for, as that does not exist here.
Remember, you only later revealed that your question is based on your own prejudice:
“I’m just looking to know what feature Premiere has that Resolve don’t”.
As everybody here is telling you, depending on what work you want to do, you’ll find other NLE’s are far superior, in the same way Adobe for some projects are better than the rest.

I know you don’t like A.I. and admittedly, it is only Fusion keyframing + more you can do in Davinci’s Cut page tool, but that is still progress.

CoPilot is happy to help:

Short answer:
DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer, and Final Cut Pro each outperform Premiere Pro in different areas — Resolve in color and all‑in‑one workflow, Avid in collaboration and stability for long‑form, and Final Cut in speed and performance on Apple hardware. Premiere’s strength is ecosystem integration, not raw editing superiority. Fstoppers

Below is the structured, evidence‑based breakdown.

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🧩 What each NLE does better than Premiere Pro
🎨 DaVinci Resolve — Better for color, speed, and unified workflow

Resolve outperforms Premiere in several areas:

• World‑class color grading (industry standard; Premiere can’t match the node‑based system).
• Faster timeline performance — Resolve handles media more efficiently and often requires less proxy work than Premiere. Fstoppers
• All‑in‑one workflow (Edit, Color, Fusion, Fairlight) without round‑tripping.
• Cut Page gives a magnetic‑timeline‑style fast assembly workflow. Fstoppers
• Better panels/workflow organization for end‑to‑end post‑production. Fstoppers

Resolve blends the speed of Final Cut with the familiarity of Premiere, while adding professional color and audio tools. OWC – Other World Computing

Where Resolve beats Premiere:
Color, performance, stability, audio, VFX integration, and cost (Studio is a one‑time purchase).

<hr>

🎬 Avid Media Composer — Better for long‑form, collaboration, and reliability

Avid is still the king of:

• Large‑scale productions (film, TV, broadcast).
• Multi‑editor collaboration — rock‑solid shared projects.
• Media management for huge timelines.
• Stability — Avid is famously predictable and conservative.

Avid is not as modern or flexible as Premiere, but for Hollywood‑style workflows, it’s still the gold standard. YouTube

Where Avid beats Premiere:
Collaboration, stability, shared storage workflows, long‑form editing.

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⚡ Final Cut Pro — Better for speed, performance, and metadata‑driven editing

Final Cut Pro (FCP) excels in:

• Insanely fast performance on Apple Silicon — often the fastest NLE for playback and export.
• Automatic background proxy creation (Premiere requires more manual setup). Fstoppers
• Magnetic timeline — polarizing, but extremely fast for many editors.
• Metadata‑driven organization — keywords, smart collections, and logging tools are unmatched. OWC – Other World Computing
• Optimized for ProRes — Apple’s codec gives FCP a huge speed advantage.

FCP is the most “different” NLE, but also the fastest for many workflows.

Where FCP beats Premiere:
Speed, organization, background processing, Apple hardware optimization.

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📊 Summary Table — Where each NLE is stronger than Premiere

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🧠 The pattern across all three

Across multiple sources, a consistent theme emerges:

• Premiere Pro requires more setup (proxies, media management). Fstoppers
• Premiere is the slowest to feel “smooth” on the timeline. Fstoppers
• Premiere’s main advantage is Adobe ecosystem integration, not editing performance. OWC – Other World Computing

This aligns with your own experience: Premiere’s instability and friction are real weaknesses.

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Patrick, I don’t know whether you are student writing a school assignment, or Adobe Marketing that is franticly trying to find positives. But the fastest way for you to find out, is by getting your hands dirty and try each NLE by yourself.

Yesterday Mindstream, dropped this in my inbox:
Anthropic dropped Claude Design, which has Canva and Adobe in sheer
panic. Quite a week.

https://www.mindstream.news/p/this-is-bigger-than-ai-can-make-slides

Hope this helps?
Atb
Mads

fstoppers.com

Which Is Best, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut? | Fstoppers

I subscribe to Premiere Pro and own Final Cut X and Da Vinci Resolve. I’ve been weighing up which one to focus on in order to become a better editor and video professional. I’ve considered the ease of use when … Continue reading

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Patrick,

And that list of yours is already out of date.

Why, because the Davinci-Resolve team are good at listening to their user base, one thing that the Adobe team don’t seem to be doing.

As suggested AI can give you those answers, here is one example:

“In DaVinci Resolve 21, the Edit page masking capabilities are enhanced by faster AI tools and improved integration of Fusion effects. While the Color page is traditionally used for complex masking, the Edit page allows for quick, direct masking using OFX effects and inspector tools.”

Don’t get me wrong, there are things that Premiere Pro used to be great at, but as the Adobe point releases over the last 2 years have got increasingly worse. And their support team ask you to roll back, rather than help find a fix. Then it is no longer a question of superiority, but more about what NLE works best for the job.

This might be of interest to you:

https://youtu.be/sgnPmv7ATzI?si=PQfFPdRDL8tlf2aD

Adobe is raising their prices, and making good money, but the investors have lost faith in them. And the Adobe CEO have, at long last, announced that someone else will be taking over in the C-Suite.

Atb
Mads

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Patrick,

That is OK, but every user have their own experiences with the software.
The way you are framing your research is “I’m just looking to know what feature Premiere has that Resolve don’t”.
Why?
That premise is based on you wanting to know why Premiere Pro is better than Davinci, so why not state that from the beginning.

As Premiere Pro has been around for longer than Davinci, you might get a better response over on the COW Davinci-Resolve forum.
Not least as many of the Davinci users are likely to have migrated there from Premiere Pro, or like me, use both pieces of software + FCP and AVID and a few more.
https://creativecow.net/forums/forum/davinci-resolve/

As long as you understand that whatever answer you get it is useless if you don’t know what you want to use it for?
Off-line, on-line, grading, motion graphics, shorts, branded content, corporate, educational, unscripted, broadcast, documentary, drama, Feature films, Finishing..?
The list is endless.

But if your only purpose is to convince your boss, colleagues and peers that Premiere Pro is better, then you are forgetting to sell yourself as an editor – as opposed to a “button-pusher”.

Atb
Mads

creativecow.net

DaVinci Resolve – Creative COW

DaVinci Resolve – Creative COW

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Patrick,

That is somewhat of a passive aggressive answer.

Davinci and Premiere Pro is no different than meat pie from your local supermarket.
Choose two brands, read the ingredients on the back of them, and you have your answer.
If that is too much, try ask AI.

But don’t come seekeing for help, if you are just after a list of differences, because you are too lazy to find out by yourself.
Both Premiere Pro and Davinci have free trials.

Good Luck.

Atb
Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Patrick,

Rather than focusing on “features”, it would be more relevant for you to define what kind of work you want to do?

Currently, if you are happy with something overly expensive, that breaks all the time, and the company’s point releases are avoid at all costs, then Premiere Pro is perfect.

If you want something that feels a bit clunky, but has delivered on 27 of the movies that were nominated for this year’s Academy Awards (Oscars), then Davinci is fantastic.
Admittedly, I’ve never had to use Davinci Technical Support – which tells you how bad the software releases that are coming out of Adobe is.
https://creativecow.net/2026-oscar-nominated-films-powered-by-blackmagic-design/

If subscription is your thing, and you want to get into high-end editing, then AVID is making its way back from years of not really keeping up with the market. And the “Standard” version cost less than Premiere Pro…

Most importantly, what are your aspirations with the work that you want to do?
Is this for making a living, or for your own projects?

I have all the above NLE packages, and currently reducing my reliance on Premiere Pro. Adobe Creative Suite is no longer what it used to be, and the company’s C-Suite is not fixing the problems.

Just yesterday, a colleague who has used Adobe since 1997 told me that he cancelled his subscription and has replaced all the Adobe apps that he used most with free or minimal-cost alternatives.

The other “small” issues to consider are what computer you will run your software on?
And if you need a better monitor and more storage?

Hope that this helps?

Atb
Mads

creativecow.net

2026 Oscar Nominated Films Powered by Blackmagic Design – Creative COW

2026 Oscar Nominated Films Powered by Blackmagic Design – Creative COW

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Bill and John,

John: Topaz Photo AI was an inspired choice, I would not have thought of that.
Just for “fun” it might be interesting to batch-process a PNG sequence?
Topaz has got info here:
https://docs.topazlabs.com/topaz-photo/functions/batch-processing

Bill, when I saw your post, my initial thought was from growing up in a time where you could not scan bank-notes on most flatbed scanners. That there might be a time where where watermarked videos might run the same risk.

Then, watermarking for copyright, these days are embedded in the picture as an invisible feature.

Atb
Mads

docs.topazlabs.com

Batch Processing | Topaz Photo AI

Select multiple images and import to the application, or drag and drop entire folders.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Ian,

Yes, the COW SPAM filter can be infuriating – I too have been in that “jail”.
But without that filter, there would only be spam on the COW – I reported 4 spammers yesterday.

To get out of jail, you can email the COW, and they will post it for you, or identify the offending text.

However, back to your issue:

MTS is an unloved format by many of the pro-sumer/professional NLEs.
I don’t know whether it is a licensing thing, or stability.

A couple of ideas for you:

What happens when you transcode the MTS Interlaced footage to Progressive file format?

Have you tried to import the video in to Davinci or similar?

Another trick, which I seem to think that I used back in the day:
Make a copy of one of the *.mts files.
Then change the file format from .MTS to .MP4, and then see what happens.

Atb
Mads