I agree- they will each degrade image quality a certain amount.
How are you going to determine which is "better"?
Either way, I can't afford Adobe, so I'm gonna keep using my $20 "blessing from the Internet".
just thought it would be interesting to compare, You could hardly pass up that Prodad deal. And it runs on my surface pro 3 where premiere pro will not. every now and then prodad leaves in some vibration. I wish you could adjust the level of smoothness in prodad