Shots vs
Premiere Pro & Final Cut
Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro are full professional editors with deep colour, audio and effects tools. Shots is for getting a good cut fast: ask for the edit, and hand the timeline to a pro editor when it needs finishing.
Professional finishing. Frame-accurate timelines, colour grading, audio mixing and plug-ins.
The first cut, fast. Shots finds the moments, makes the edit, and hands over a timeline when you need more.
The short version.
A pro editor gives you every control. Shots gives you a cut in about a minute.
Search hours of rushes by what happens, not by scrubbing.
Export the timeline as XML and keep going in your pro editor.
Side by side.
An honest look at what each tool is built to do. Plenty of people use both.
Where Premiere Pro & Final Cut are great.
Every control a professional needs, from multicam to colour scopes.
Grading, mixing and effects good enough for cinema and broadcast.
Plug-ins, templates and a huge pool of people who know them.
Use them together.
Make the selects and the first cut in Shots, then finish in a pro editor. Export the timeline, the clips and the captions.
Drop in your clips and say what you want. Get a first cut with captions and music.
Export the project with clips and captions, and fine-tune anywhere you like.
Post it wherever your people are.
Questions.
Is Shots a replacement for Premiere Pro or Final Cut?
Not for finishing a film. It's a faster way to get to a first cut, and plenty of people hand that cut to a pro editor.
Can I send a Shots edit to Premiere Pro?
Yes. Export the timeline as XML for Premiere or Resolve, with the clips alongside.
Is Shots free?
Yes. The editor is free with no watermark. Pro is $29 a month with 2,500 credits for generating, and Team is $99 a month for up to five people.
Skip the empty timeline.
Drop in your clips. Get a first cut in about a minute.
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