Does Your Premiere Pro Workflow Include Prelude?

[AlluringImminence]

Hey there,

I'm a pretty dedicated video editor, and have been using the Adobe products for a while. I tend to just stick with Premiere Pro, After Effects, SpeedGrade (now kind of obsolete sadly), and Media Encoder. But I've notice about a handful of people using Prelude. Now I imagine it must be great for larger projects, because you're able to organize clips better, and create sub-clips and rough cuts. But at the same time, I feel like I could have done that in Premiere Pro too.

I do video work for clients and my YouTube channel, most of them being screen capture tutorials. Most of the time I just drag my 5-6 videos into Premiere Pro, drag them into the timeline and start cutting using the Q and W shortcuts I've set up to delete parts before a point or after a point, which works really quick for me. For Prelude it seems like you're able to do something similar but just with extra steps and even more customization which may not even be necessary.

So I want to ask you all, do you use Prelude when editing videos? When do you use it? When do you think it's appropriate to use it? Or is it going to become obsolete as SpeedGrade as you'll be able to do much of what you can do in Prelude in Premiere? Let me know, would love to get some insight.

P.S I have done some research and watched some YouTube videos on Prelude.

[excited_Genie16B8]

I'm not aware of anything you can do in Prelude that you can't do in Premiere Pro.  In other words, there's no unique functionality in Prelude.

To my thinking, where it makes the most (only?) sense is on a Laptop being used by an assistant editor on set, with the lead editor using PP on a desktop back at the office.

[AlluringImminence]

Or someone putting together a rough cut to then send to another editor to remove green screens and polish the edit, no?

[excited_Genie16B8 · Accepted solution]

I don't think so.  Premiere Pro would work for that.

The point of having Prelude (to my thinking) is that the editor has PP installed on the desktop, and the assistant has Prelude installed on the Laptop on set.

Although, since we get two activations with the subscription, even that limited usefulness is pretty much nullified.  Even the assistant can be using Premiere Pro on set.