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While Premiere Pro is Adobe’s high-end video editor, even regular Premiere Elements can feel too powerful and complicated to some. For those wanting a simple video editor that can work on both computers and mobile devices, Adobe offers Premiere Rush.
As the name implies, it’s all about cutting content quickly, with an emphasis on creating simple social media or marketing videos. Perhaps most surprisingly, Premiere Rush is free. Set up an Adobe ID and you can download Rush for your computer via the Creative Cloud app and your mobile device via its app store.
Whether you’re working on a computer, phone or tablet, the interface is similar – but not identical. For instance, options for graphics, effects, colour correction, speed adjustments, audio and cropping can be found top right on a computer, but at the bottom of the screen on a phone. Luckily, the icons are identical, so it will take you seconds to recognise what you’re after and learn where they’re positioned.
The biggest difference between devices is how the playhead – the vertical line that shows your current position on the timeline – behaves. On a computer, it acts in a typical manner: click and drag it to another location to skim through your footage, or click on another location on your timeline to jump to that point. On a mobile device, the playhead remains fixed at the centre; you move the project left or right through a drag of the finger. It quickly makes sense, but you can only edit in portrait orientation.
To help create a project quickly, Rush uses what Final Cut Pro and CapCut users would recognise as a “magnetic timeline”, which means when you alter the length of a clip in your project, you don’t end up with a gap between it and any clip that you’ve added further along the timeline. Instead, they all move to fill that gap. Extend a clip and they’re all pushed forward. You can easily swap the order of the clips and no gap is ever left in your timeline.
By default, it looks like you can only work with a single layer of audio and video, which also gives the impression that this is a simple app. In reality, Premiere Rush supports four layers of video and three layers of audio, allowing you to place clips over others, thereby creating more complex projects.
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