Why are people hiring so nitpicky about software?
Before this gets removed again, I’m trying to ask advice from other professional editors. I’ve been working as a freelance editor for 3 years, pay taxes as a freelance editor, and do work mostly for clients on YouTube. Mostly long form, some short form.
I work with FCP and motionVFX. I started out with Premiere, but trying to use motion graphics was a slog and I found FCP to be much more user friendly and easier to get from point A to B, it works for me and I get great results. Yet now when I look for work I’m already locked out of at least 50% of jobs because they exclusively want Premiere and AE editors. I get it, industry standards and so on, but I’m doing just fine with FCP and should be able to use what works for me. I don’t have the time to learn Premiere because I’m already supplementing my lack of editing income by taking up part time cleaning jobs, I can’t even land an internship that would help me learn and grow in this industry, and I can’t land many jobs because I’m using a software people apparently find inferior.
Tldr: Why do so many jobs require advanced knowledge of Adobe software when I can do my work with FCP just as well? And if I have to learn Premiere all over again, what advice can you give for working with motion graphics in Premiere?
