The interface is divided into two parts: although you can add effects and titles to your project, from simple letters appearing on screen to complex 3D animations, all from within HitFilm Pro, you can’t actually do it all while editing: in order to add some of those effects, you need to turn your clip into a composite shot, which prepares it for all manner of alterations that will be applied to it.

Even better, you can choose to select either the audio or video, depending on where you clicked.The workspace on display is versatile enough so you can easily change the layout to suit your needs, adding, removing or reordering panels as you see fit. 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. The latest improvements aren’t earth shattering, but they’re definitely nice to have. 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. Not everything is free, and the most advanced tools come at a cost, but developers gotta eat, right? (Image credit: FXhome)

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