Open source alternatives to Adobe Premiere Pro

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Adobe Premiere Pro does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Adobe Premiere Pro does

  1. Timeline video editingcore
  2. Multi-track audio and videocore
  3. Color correction and grading
  4. Titles, effects and transitions
  5. Captions and transcription
  6. Export to many formats
  7. Integration with other Adobe apps

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

ProjectCoversStarsCommits, 12 weeksLast releaseClosed vs openedSetupLicense
ConcatBeta cross-platform video editor, scriptable through a JSON-RPC API and MCP Replaces it83%18k+2.0k
1,503
yesterday53% Install like an app AGPL-3.0
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Color correction and grading. Not shown: Integration with other Adobe apps.See the evidence
  • Timeline video editingcoreYesSplit, trim, ripple, merge, freeze frame, speed.
  • Multi-track audio and videocoreYesCaptions, voices, titles and effects on a multi-track timeline
  • Color correction and gradingPartlyEffects, Filters, Adjustments and Templates
  • Titles, effects and transitionsYes100 effects, filters and transitions
  • Captions and transcriptionYesget styled captions on the timeline
  • Export to many formatsYesH.264, HEVC, AV1. Up to 4K 60, 10-bit colour.
  • Integration with other Adobe appsNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.

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