Case study: 30 Shorts/week, CapCut beat Premiere on time

Case study: 30 Shorts/week, CapCut beat Premiere on time

A cooking creator was cutting 30 Shorts a week. We timed both stacks across the same 60 raw clips.

Premiere desktop: 14 min/short (proxy gen, manual captions, color).
CapCut mobile + templates: 5.5 min/short. Total weekly edit time dropped from 7h to 2.75h.

Pros:
— Auto-caption + template reuse cut the boring 60%
— Export quality identical at 1080x1920

Cons:
— CapCut's free tier added cloud-export watermarks on some effects
— No real color grading

Price: CapCut free / Pro $7.99 mo. Premiere $22.99 mo.

Verdict: for volume, CapCut won by 4.25h/week. Not for you if you need real grading or broadcast delivery.

Pick: CapCut Pro for batch Shorts.