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December 20, 2025
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Express is being EMBARRASSED by Capcut

  • December 20, 2025
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As a CC user and subscriber for years, I'm both furious and mortified at how badly Adobe is being beaten by Capcut.  Adobe seems so far behind the curve in so many ways I can't comprehend the level of shame it should feel (but probably doesn't).  And it's not just Express, Capcut is nipping at the heels of Premiere Pro and in many ways beats Premiere Pro by leaps and bounds.  WT actual (censored) Adobe?  Do you have no pride at all?  

 

To this day Express and PPro are missing so many features that Capcut has, and does extremely well.  Let's start with background removal for video - Express's is terrible. The AI is a joke, Capcut's KILLS Adobe's video background remover in performance.  Not only that, you can't export it out of Express because Adobe is too lazy to add that capability.  But not only that, Premiere Pro doesn't even HAVE a background remover.  I could go on and on about what Adobe's video editing in both Express and PPro are missing, but I'll stop after mentioning how p*ss poor and useless all of the AI is, including Generative Extend and the Resize function in  Express.  Adobe is clueless about users creating content for social media and what it takes to even begin filling their needs nor does it appear to have any desire to do so unless it absolutely has to.  

 

If you're sick of this, and expect Adobe to lead and not follow a far distant behind for the money they're taking from us, please make your voice heard. 

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@scm28 I have still the utmost respect for Adobe, whom I have been a user for over 29 years now. With AI, and Firefly, Adobe distinguishes itself from competitors like Midjourney and DALL-E by prioritizing commercial safety such as copyright. Their AI is trained primarily on Adobe Stock and public domain content rather than unfiltered web scraping, though it was revealed that Firefly was "indirectly" trained on rival data because Adobe accepted millions of AI-generated submissions from its own Stock contributors using Midjourney and DALL-E and uploading it to Adobe Stock! Adobe is facing a major class-action lawsuit alleging that its SlimLM mobile models were trained on datasets containing pirated books. However, Adobe remains a leader in the enterprise market by offering Intellectual Property (IP) Indemnification, a contractual guarantee that protects business users by covering legal costs and damages if a qualifying Firefly-generated output is ever challenged for copyright infringement. Midjourney and CapCut does not do that. 

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January 11, 2026

@scm28 I have still the utmost respect for Adobe, whom I have been a user for over 29 years now. With AI, and Firefly, Adobe distinguishes itself from competitors like Midjourney and DALL-E by prioritizing commercial safety such as copyright. Their AI is trained primarily on Adobe Stock and public domain content rather than unfiltered web scraping, though it was revealed that Firefly was "indirectly" trained on rival data because Adobe accepted millions of AI-generated submissions from its own Stock contributors using Midjourney and DALL-E and uploading it to Adobe Stock! Adobe is facing a major class-action lawsuit alleging that its SlimLM mobile models were trained on datasets containing pirated books. However, Adobe remains a leader in the enterprise market by offering Intellectual Property (IP) Indemnification, a contractual guarantee that protects business users by covering legal costs and damages if a qualifying Firefly-generated output is ever challenged for copyright infringement. Midjourney and CapCut does not do that. 

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January 12, 2026

I care about performance and value for my money.  Adobe wins on none of those things and keeps getting further and further behind.  I've been using Adobe forever too, and throughout I've always dreamed of the day when I can finally leave tell them to take their apathy, bugs and contempt for the customer and so something unmentionable with it.  If Capcut had better sound editing (it does not, and that's the ONLY area Adobe wins) then I'd dump them for capcut this minute.  And what's with this nonsense where they brag about great new features and then only make them available months later and then only in the Beta versions.