Copy, trim, sync and slice your way to perfection. The tool helps them animate still images, shapes, and texts by applying natural motion graphics to them.
Just a simple, intuitive interface filled with all the editing, animation and audio tools you need. To sum up, HitFilm Pro offers a puppet tool that enables users to add animation to static characters. Even better, you can choose to select either the audio or video, depending on where you clicked. Work at lightning speed using HitFilm’s ultra fast technology. Some nice additions we liked include the Track Select Tool - which lets you highlight everything to the right or left of your selection. It’s something competing products have had for years - if not decades - so it’s nice to see it finally added to the roster.Īnother overdue improvement is the ability to export audio using the WAV format Some of the features include a Crop/Pan and Zoom tool which allows you to pan across a photo or video clip over time. You can purchase the add-on pack containing the effect at any time to remove the watermark. To begin, HitFilm Pro supports most common audio, video and image types and can export into just as many.
Testing HitFilm Pro 13’s full capabilities. Effects marked with the tag will run in demo mode in HitFilm Express. Tool and Effect add-ons can then be purchased and added individually, many with prices starting as low as 10. See the Presets chapter for more information. The latest improvements aren’t earth shattering, but they’re definitely nice to have. The Effects panel also lists built-in and user-created presets, which can include multiple effects. New featuresīeing free doesn’t mean this software is antiquated and over the hill: it keeps getting updated. They are nice to have, but they’re not crucial, and that’s a big point to the developers of HitFilm Express, who created a great app that is a very useable editor and rivals almost all other packages in its price range. But to be fair, as long as you’re working in traditional 2D media, you can build an edit, even a relatively complex one without those add-ons. As you scroll through the Effects menu, you’ll come across a fair number that are greyed out with ‘Add On’ in reddish orange to their right. You will find however, that not all tools are available to you. Apple: macOS 11.0 Big Sur, macOS 10.15 Catalina or macOS 10.
Not everything is free, and the most advanced tools come at a cost, but developers gotta eat, right? (Image credit: FXhome)