Just like last year, the App Store on the iPhone and Mac was again bursting with countless new apps. Also in 2018, every editor of iPhoned will again choose one app as favorite of the year. In our opinion, these are the very best iOS and macOS apps of the year. Today it’s Florence’s turn with Adobe Premiere Rush.
Adobe Premiere Rush: This year’s personal favorite
I’m not a notorious video editor myself, especially on my smartphone. Not because I don’t like it, but because I simply haven’t found the right app yet. The flaws of the standard iMovie app on the iPhone do not make me happy, and I have not yet found a better alternative.
Until Adobe released Premiere Rush earlier this year. Especially since I’ve been a fan of Adobe Photoshop and Premiere on the PC for some time, I thought the app was worth a try. I now regularly use the app to improve the color scheme of a video or to edit a short impression of a holiday.
Premiere Rush is a simple video editing program, but it has everything needed to edit a movie in detail. And in my opinion that is also the strength: even if you are not an experienced editor like me, you have put together such a beautiful video because of the simplicity.
Childlike convenience and extensive functions
Editing is actually very intuitive. You tap and drag to move, shorten or, for example, change the color balance. Thanks to the clear bar at the bottom, the developers were able to add a lot more functions than you see in iMovie on iOS.
And even if you don’t want to work with contrasts, shadows and color tones, the app offers a lot. A fine selection of the most commonly used filters and transitions make it incredibly easy to always spice up your videos.
In addition, you can store quite a bit of material – four video tracks and three audio tracks – so that you can make it as extensive as you want. What I like about it is that you can easily try out what works and what doesn’t work in a movie, and make more and more extensive edits. And that without having to resort to a PC or Mac.
As long as you make videos for fun and like to share them with friends via social media, this is a big advantage. It takes little effort to make a great travel video or compilation of a day out. Because you mount it on your iPhone or iPad, you can share it just as quickly.
Free for the average user
Adobe Premiere Rush CC is free to download and use. As a free user you have access to all tools and you can create as many projects as you want. However, you can only export three projects via the cloud.
If you mainly use the app to edit videos for social media in an accessible way, that is sufficient. If you want to use the app more intensively and always be able to switch between your iPhone and Mac, a subscription is necessary. This costs $ 9.99 per month. This allows you to export unlimited projects and gives you 100GB of storage space in Creative Cloud.