Adobe Premiere Pro vs LosslessCut
Adobe Premiere Pro and LosslessCut are both video editing software. Adobe Premiere Pro is a commercial product from Adobe Inc. LosslessCut is open source under GPL-2.0, with 46k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Adobe Premiere Pro when
- You edit video professionally on Windows or across platforms and work with After Effects.
- Pick LosslessCut when
- You need to cut large recordings quickly without losing quality.
Side by side
Professional timeline video editor for Windows and Mac, linked with After Effects and Audition.
A desktop FFmpeg front end for trimming, cutting, merging and remuxing video and audio without re-encoding.
Subscription only, and stability on large projects is a common complaint.
Cuts snap to keyframes, so frame-exact edits need re-encoding elsewhere.
Production-ready (both)
Desktop app (both)
Not published
TypeScript, Electron, React and FFmpeg
Closed source, sold by Adobe Inc.
Open source, GPL-2.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
1.4k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
46k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 10 years ago, latest release v3.70.2.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.