[Aerolfos]

Video editing? Adobe has set themselves up for failure there, everyone wants an alternative

Davinci Resolve is probably competitive with Premiere, but while free it's not actually open source. But either a viable competitor catching up or Davinci publishing the code could change that fast

[fletchowns]

Kdenlive is awesome. I am only a hobbyist but I cancelled my subscription to Premiere when I found it.

[presbyterian]

Does Kdenlive still lack GPU playback and rendering? It did when I last used it, and that'll be a non-starter for most professionals

[Forgeties79]

Resolve Studio vastly outshines Premiere IMO. For $300 flat it’s a no-brainer.

[tombert]

I'm not a pro or anything, and I don't edit video super often, but I would like to point out that Lightworks is quite good, and offers a perpetual license [1] for $420 that is very often on sale.

I don't have the ability to compare these things in intimate detail, but Lightworks has at least been used for "real" productions [2] so I think it's production-ready.

[1]https://lwks.com/pricing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightworks#Users

[steve1977]

Premiere is in a bad position anyway here, because in contrast to Photoshop, it is not really the industry standard, at least in the higher end stuff. That would probably be Media Composer.