At the higher tiers, you get 4K exports with HitFilm Creator and up to 8K exports with HitFilm Pro. The free version of HitFilm offers basic features and unlimited exports up to HD. The other two are called Creator and Pro, respectively. The first tier is called Free, and it’s, well, free. There are three tiers to choose from (plus a fourth tier for businesses). It’s kind of a combination of Photoshop and Lightroom, but without the steep learning curve.

If you are more into editing still images, Imerge, another FXhome application, is here for you. So you’ll get an easy-to-use, yet powerful video editing / VFX suite. Artlist acquired the company behind it, FXhome, last year ( blog post here) and they have integrated their stock music / sound effects / stock footage platform directly into HitFilm. That’s your workflow as you open the application, what you’ll see first and where you’d go from there….That’s where HitFilm comes in handy. 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.

This article continues our series of reviews of alternative nonlinear editors from the perspective of a longtime Premiere Pro editor with a look at HitFilm Pro from FXhome. AugEditing Software, fxhome, hitfilm-pro, nle, reviews, vfx

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