Premiere Pro is sooo good. I know it's expensive. But I've tried Filmora, DaVinci, and even Final Cut Pro. Nothing compares. Premiere pro is so powerful and feature rich. What's money for but to buy really nice stuff. ?
I'm glad you're happy with Premier Pro. One has to recognize that (IMO) familiarity is 95% of the satisfaction when comparing software. Having tried all of these other programs it would be helpful if you would provide more information on why you think Premier is better than the others you've tried in addition to stating how wonderful you think it is. Perhaps you might convince some folks that it's truly the way to go (in spite of the costs).
FCP is a whole different approach and requites a different "brain space" compared to other programs, much like back in the early desktop publishing days when someone using Quark XPress the defacto premier DTP program would turn their nose up at Aldus Pagemaker (which ironically morphed into Adobe InDesign). The familiarity is largely based on availability. Someone just starting out in video is most likely going to go with something easier to learn and low in cost, perhaps like Filmora- which I never took a liking to.
My biggest problem with Premier Pro isn't the program itself, but Adobe. They pick your pocket every month- forever, with their software rental scheme, whether you use the product every day, once a month, once a year... or never as long as you still allow your account to be charged.
Since you mentioned Davinci, have you tried their latest version, Davinci
17 which is free with no restrictions or limitations? Have you ever tried their studio version which is a ONE TIME $300 cost that you'll never have to pay again? Is there ANY program out there to learn fully blown video editing FOR FREE? And learning a video program is just as important as having one that can do all the stuff. I cannot believe the amount of free tutorials on Davinci. Some folks find Davinci daunting to learn but I stuck to the basics and actually found it fairly intuitive. I suspect Premier Pro is no harder or easier to learn than Davinci Resolve- or vice versa. But knowing Davinci Resolve now as I do, I find it difficult to believe that Premier Pro is any more powerful than Davinci, but if so only marginally. A lot of Holllywood guys use Davinci which says something right there.
I'm sure there are as many tutorials for Premier Pro as Davinci. But the basic Premier Pro costs $21/mo. If you want After Effects which is pretty much required beyond the basics, it's another $21/mo.
So Premier Pro + After Effects costs $500 per year EVERY year. Its not that I have a problem with Premier Pro, which I'm sure is a fine program. My problem is with Adobe. I have a big beef with them about Photoshop licensing with legacy versions that I *PURCHASED*, which I cannot activate on my slower older computers yet those computers choke on the newer versions. So I am stuck with a subscription that I don't use that often any longer but often enough that I have to have some version of Photoshop. Their new version(s) which has many features I don't need but have the "privilege" for paying for every month anyway. If you do still photographs professionally you're pretty much stuck using Photoshop (even though earlier versions can do 99% of what the latest updates can- and more elegantly). However, with video editing software, there are other fish in the sea.
Sorry for the long sermonette.