You can break off panels in HitFilm Pro, which I really like. It does have several workspaces, which you can access under the View menu (pull-down open in Figure 4), which will automatically change the layout of all the panels. My project is already open, and Figure 4 shows the basic editing layout. HitFilm Pro’s Project Settings dialogĪfter you've set your parameters and applied them, next you’ll go to the Edit screen ( Figure 4, below).

You can see that HitFilm Pro does support up to 4K resolutions, so you're not going to be limited in the types of projects you can work on in here.įigure 3.

The next tab over is Project, which is what it'll take you to if you hit the New button on the left of the Home screen.įigure 3 (below) shows the Project Settings dialog. That project that's showing there is the test file we'll use as an example in this review. On the left-hand side of Figure 2, you can see there are New, Open, and Recent Projects options available right away. That's not to say that's all it's for, but that does seem to be an audience that they're trying to appeal to by showing off all the cool stuff you could do, like the Iron Man boots tutorial shown on the upper right in Figure 2, which is actually a pretty cool tutorial I watched. I get the sense that a lot of their audience is short-film or low-budget filmmakers, people on YouTube that just want to make something crazy or fun. It's meant to be an application that people can use to make Hollywood or film-style effects in their videos. If you just scroll through what you see immediately on their YouTube channel, you can kind of get a feel for the audience that they're going for. It's flooded with all these links to their YouTube tutorials on their channel and even some of their tweets here. In Figure 2 (below), you can see the Home screen is different from most applications. Use these four buttons to get started in the HitFilm Pro UI That’s your workflow as you open the application, what you'll see first and where you'd go from there.įigure 1. At the very top of Figure 1 (below), you can see there are four buttons: Home, Project, Edit, and Export. To begin, let’s look at the general layout of the application. It's like taking Premiere Pro and After Effects and making them all inside of one application. I would best sum up HitFilm Pro by saying that if Adobe made this, it would be called Premiere Effects, because FXhome has really done a pretty good job at mashing up a good NLE with a very good compositing application. FXhome’s HitFilm Pro is a relative newcomer to the nonlinear editing software scene.

This article continues our series of looking at a few alternative NLEs from the perspective of a longtime Premiere Pro editor.

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