Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 free for PC, Mac

Adobe Premiere Pro is a feature-packed video editing software that includes tons of tools to ensure you can create amazing videos full of stunning visual and audio effects. Designed for solo creators or AAA teams, in this article, we will discuss everything you need to know about this popular video editor.

What is Adobe Premiere Pro?

Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video, image, and audio editing software developed by Adobe Inc. as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. Note that Adobe Premiere Pro is the successor of Adobe Premiere, which was launched in 1991, so the company has considerable experience with that kind of software, and it has taken the time to improve it over the years. So what to say, Adobe Premiere Pro is a fully-featured program that allows you to create stunning content and fine-tune your video, audio, image, animation, and color mixing to produce professional-grade content.

What are the key features of Adobe Premiere Pro?

• Workspace: Adobe Premiere Pro doesn't only shine because it is fully featured and mighty. It also offers a top-notch workspace you can organize the way you want, moving around your different windows in order to find everything you need very quickly. At the end of the day, you will realize that thousands of hours have been spent to ensure that you stay productive and get the most out of each Premiere's aspect (not an opinion, but a fact).

• Animated graphics: This is an awesome feature as it allows you to fully animate all kinds of graphics and titles and easily incorporate them into your creations. Thanks to the Essential Graphics panel, you can browse and find lots of different templates you can drag and drop right into your composition to see what it looks like immediately. Of course, you can create your own ones too. Those effects truly make everything more alive and punchy.

• Video: Instantly drag and drop any kind of video file and add it to your project as it supports content recorded on iPhone, GoPro, DSLR, etc., and you can edit footage in any format, from HD to 8K, and even virtual reality. Once imported, you can edit your timeline the way you want with the Trim tool and extend or shorten clips, create multicam sequences, add custom or template animations to spice it up, and sync audio. Additionally, no matter what audience or social media platform your content is made for, Adobe Premiere Pro will automatically reframe your video to suit different aspect ratios. Supported frames include 16:9 (horizontal), 1:1 (square), and 4:5 (vertical).

• Audio: Of course, you can use all the tools you need regarding audio. Browse by keyword, mood, or genre using the Essential Sound panel, choose among a vast amount of professional content, or import the one you want, and immediately bring more life to your creation. Thanks to audio ducking powered by Adobe Sensei, you can automatically lower the audio volume when it detects voiceover or dialogue. And don't worry about mastering, as the Auto-Match can help you automatically equalize the whole mix.

• Collaborate: If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together. Adobe Premiere Pro understands how important collaborating with people is in the long run and offers many collaborative tools. Right from your timelines, you can add or check reviews from other people, share links, select the areas of the image your comments are about, and more. You will also be able to upload and download shared media in seconds, as you can manage up to five projects, take advantage of shared storage, and go from camera to cloud in no time (you can start sharing while production is still in progress). Last but not least, Adobe Sensei AI can automatically detect edit points in videos you did not edit.

• Control colors: Fine-tuning the colorimetry of your final product is no longer a concern thanks to the Lumetru Color panel and the crazy features it brings to the game. In a single click, you can automatically uniformize the color gradient, pick a color and make it the new color reference, and manually pimp tons of parameters, including exposure, contrasts, highlights, shadows, Whites, Blacks, and more. You can also import your color presets and instantly change the overall mood of your composition.

• Captions: Your content will be available to everyone effortlessly as you can automatically generate or create and add captions to your videos. Indeed, the Transcribe tool can automatically generate text from audio. Once added or generated, you can review and make adjustments to the captions to ensure it perfectly fits the pace you want in your video. In addition, of course, stylizing the words with a specific appearance, font, colors, and positioning is possible (and can be saved as presets to be reused later).

• Seamless integration: Adobe Premiere Pro works perfectly back and forth with other Adobe applications, such as After Effects, Photoshop, and Audition. It brings the creation and collaboration even further.

• More: It seems there is no end to what this program can offer because it is constantly improved based on what the users need. Over the years, it supports more formats, features more effects and GPU-accelerated effects, eases your workflow thanks to clever keyboard shortcuts, and who knows what will be improved tomorrow.

How to use Adobe Premiere Pro?

1. To open a Premiere Pro project file, double-click on it or click on Open Project in the Start screen and select a file. To create a new project file, click on New Project. 
2. To import media files using the Media Browser panel, browse to the files you'd like to import, select the clips you want to work with in Premiere Pro, right-click one of the selected clips, and choose Import. Once the media is imported, you're ready to edit.
3. Make sure to save your work throughout your creation process by clicking on File > Save.
4. To close your project, choose File > Close Project.
5. You can also find plenty of valuable resources online, like the Getting Started section or the tutorials for beginners or experimented users.

Is it free?

Even though Adobe Premiere Pro is a paid application, we offer you a 7-day trial version. If you want to get the most out of it, you can pick one of the plans depending on what you need, whether as an individual, a student, or a teacher, for a business, or for schools and universities.

Is it safe?

Premiere Pro is a safe application created by Adobe, one of the most trusted software developers in the world. As always, we recommend reading the official privacy policy before installation.