Photoshop (bundled with its siblings, Lightroom and Lightroom Classic) is Adobe's image editor. Premiere Pro is Adobe's video editor.

I use Final Cut Pro as my advanced video editor. It is super-fast on the Mac, both because Apple optimizes the hardware and software to work together, and because the workflow is slicker than Premiere Pro or Davinci Resolve. But Resolve is also very quick on Apple hardware, while Premiere Pro is still a beta product on the M1 Macs. It does run in emulation (Rosetta 2) on the M1, just slower than those other video editing apps.

There is no Apple-branded software that equates to or competes directly with the Adobe Photography Bundle. However, you can combine Apple Photos with the Raw Power Plug-in and Serif Affinity Photo to do much of what the Adobe suite does. Raw Power and Affinity Photo are available in the Apple App Store.

I'm a dyed in the wool Final Cut Pro addict, until it comes to color grading. I'll use Resolve for that when the footage is really difficult to grade.

My son uses all three apps, because he's a UNCG media student and works on campus editing videos. But he, too, prefers Final Cut. He uses Premiere and Resolve at work.

About a decade ago, Apple made an abrupt change to Final Cut Pro from version 7 to Final Cut Pro X version 10.0. The interface was so shockingly different that many users gave up and went to Premiere Pro or Avid Media Composer.

I used iMovie 1 to iMovie 6HD for eight years to produce corporate training videos before trying the ill-fated Final Cut Express 4. I did two productions with that, and went back to iMovie. iMovie is like Premiere Elements in purpose... It's a stripped-down editor. Still, it is good enough for many simple projects.

I switched to FCPX from iMovie in 2014 at about version 10.1, so I didn't have that shocking interface change from FCP 7 to FCPX 10. Final Cut Pro is now at version 10.5.1, and they dropped the 'X' from the name a while back. This version is sleek, slick, fast, feature rich, and intuitive. The only problem? It does not run on Windows.

"Final Cut Pro, now at version 10.5.1,....is version is sleek, slick, fast, feature rich, and intuitive. The only problem? It does not run on Windows."

All the video editors seem to be sleek, fast, feature rich, and (maybe) intuitive. It may be that we, who shoot and edit at the consumer level, can use any of them. If your job requires it, you have to learn the one the boss uses. Other than that you have to go through what your operating system is and how much you want to spend.

It is going to be rare to find someone that knows, in depth, about enough of them to actually do effective comparisons of more than one or two.

Yeah, my kid gets to play with all of the above... He likes bits and pieces of each one.

He also uses Illustrator, After Effects, Motion, and Blender. I’m sure all that bouncing around is a head spinner!

I like to pick a tool and use it for years, until a better way shows up. Very fortunately, I have never been restricted to one platform or software suite. My employers all knew I was a cross-platform guy, so they told the IT guy to work with me. He was gracious and I was helpful to him with user support, so we made a deal. Now I do my own thing.

"He also uses Illustrator, After Effects, Motion, and Blender. I’m sure all that bouncing around is a head spinner!"

Very strange to me was being invited into the ACP (Adobe Community Professional) group. In exchange for answering questions in their Premiere Elements forum, they give me the full cloud. That includes After Effects. That, all by itself, is a head spinner. The last update includes content aware fill like Photoshop. You can get rid of unwanted tourist in your home travel movies! All of the Premiere Pro attachments (After Effects, Audition, Media Encoder) are head spinners for this rank amateur.