Each update to HitFilm brings a combination of performance improvements and new or upgraded tools. For a detailed overview of what has changed in each update, please see the Update History pages of our website.
- 1. Learning HitFilm
- 2. A Note for Mac Users
- 3. The HitFilm Workflow
- 3.1. Getting Started
- 3.2. Options
- 3.2.1. General Options
- 3.2.2. Interface Options
- 3.2.3. Display Options
- 3.2.4. Render Options
- 3.2.5. Quality Profiles Options
- 3.2.6. Prompts & Warnings Options
- 3.2.7. Labels Options
- 3.2.8. Cache Options
- 3.2.9. Voiceover Options
- 3.2.10. Proxies and Pre-Renders Options
- 3.2.11. Auto Save Options
- 3.2.12. Shortcuts Options
- 3.2.13. Export Options
- 3.2.14. Activation Options
- 3.3. Starting A Project
- 3.4. The Interface
- 3.5. Saving & Loading Projects
- 3.6. Introducing the Media Panel
- 3.7. Introducing the Two Timelines
- 3.8. Introducing the Viewer
- 3.9. Introducing the Controls Panel
- 3.10. Exporting
- 3.11. Introducing the Export Panel
- 3.12. Introducing the Layout Panel
- 3.13. Introducing Scopes
- 3.14. History & Undo/Redo
- 3.15. Pre-Rendering
- 3.16. Third Party Plugins
- 3.17. Keyboard Shortcuts
- 4. Editing
- 4.1. Importing Files
- 4.2. Organizing Media
- 4.3. Audio and Video Sync
- 4.4. Creating Voiceover Recordings
- 4.5. Media Properties
- 4.6. Trimming Assets
- 4.7. Adding Clips to the Timeline
- 4.8. Using the Editor Timeline
- 4.9. Audio and Video Tracks
- 4.10. Refining Your Edit
- 4.11. Creating Text & Titles
- 4.12. Working with Audio
- 4.13. Basic Compositing on the Editor
- 4.14. Effects and Transitions
- 4.15. Using Composite Shots In The Editor
- 5. Compositing
- 5.1. Creating Composite Shots
- 5.2. Using the Composite Shot Timeline
- 5.3. Working With Layers
- 5.4. Managing Composite Shots
- 5.5. Embedding Composite Shots
- 5.6. Creating Templates with Composite Shots
- 5.7. How Layers are Rendered
- 5.8. Creating Layers
- 5.9. Creating and Using Planes
- 5.10. Grade Layers
- 5.11. Transforming Layers
- 5.12. Using Point Layers
- 5.13. Automatic Motion Blur
- 5.14. Compositing With Blend Modes
- 5.15. The Layer Viewer
- 5.16. Masking
- 5.17. Tracking
- 5.18. Working in 3D
- 5.19. Importing 3D Objects
- 6. Visual Effects
- 6.1. 360° Video
- 6.1.1. 360º Animated Lasers
- 6.1.2. 360º Blur
- 6.1.3. 360º Bulge
- 6.1.4. 360º Channel Blur
- 6.1.5. 360º Fisheye Converter
- 6.1.6. 360º Fractal Noise
- 6.1.7. 360º Glow
- 6.1.8. 360º Glow Darks
- 6.1.9. 360º Lightswords (2-Point Auto) [Layer Only]
- 6.1.10. 360º Lightsword (4-Point Manual) [Layer Only]
- 6.1.11. 360º Lightswords (Glow Only) [Layer Only]
- 6.1.12. 360º Magnify
- 6.1.13. 360º Neon Path [Layer Only]
- 6.1.14. 360º Text [Layer Only]
- 6.1.15. 360º Twirl
- 6.1.16. 360º Unsharpen
- 6.1.17. 360º Video Transform
- 6.1.18. 360º Viewer [Layer Only]
- 6.2. Audio
- 6.2.1. Audio Reverse
- 6.2.2. Balance
- 6.2.3. Cathedral
- 6.2.4. Channel Levels
- 6.2.5. Compressor
- 6.2.6. Doppler Shift [Layer Only]
- 6.2.7. Echo
- 6.2.8. Equalizer
- 6.2.9. Large Room
- 6.2.10. Medium Room
- 6.2.11. Noise Reduction
- 6.2.12. Pitch
- 6.2.13. Shortwave Radio
- 6.2.14. Small Room
- 6.2.15. Telephone
- 6.2.16. Tone
- 6.3. Animation
- 6.4. Behaviors
- 6.4.1. Acceleration [Layer Only]
- 6.4.2. Attract To [Layer Only]
- 6.4.3. Central Spiral [Text]
- 6.4.4. Cinema Style [Text]
- 6.4.5. Doomo Designs [Text]
- 6.4.6. Down Dir Insert [Text]
- 6.4.7. Down Insert [Layer Only]
- 6.4.8. Down Roll [Layer Only]
- 6.4.9. Drag [Layer Only]
- 6.4.10. Drop [Layer Only]
- 6.4.11. Drop In By Character [Text]
- 6.4.12. Expansion [Layer Only]
- 6.4.13. Fade [Layer Only]
- 6.4.14. Fly In [Layer Only]
- 6.4.15. Fly In and Fade Out [Layer Only]
- 6.4.16. Fly In and Fly Out [Layer Only]
- 6.4.17. Fly To Zoom In [Layer Only]
- 6.4.18. Follow [Layer Only]
- 6.4.19. Gravity [Layer Only]
- 6.4.20. Left Dir Insert [Text]
- 6.4.21. Left Roll [Layer Only]
- 6.4.22. Mix Parent Position [Layer Only]
- 6.4.23. Motion Track
- 6.4.24. Push [Text]
- 6.4.25. Randomized Insert [Text]
- 6.4.26. Randomized Reveal [Text]
- 6.4.27. Repel From [Layer Only]
- 6.4.28. Rich Tick [Text]
- 6.4.29. Right Dir Insert [Text]
- 6.4.30. Right Roll [Layer Only]
- 6.4.31. Rotate By Layer [Layer Only]
- 6.4.32. Shuffle In [Text]
- 6.4.33. String Fade [Text]
- 6.4.34. Throw [Layer Only]
- 6.4.35. Tiny Zoom [Layer Only]
- 6.4.36. Twirl [Layer Only]
- 6.4.37. Typewriter [Text]
- 6.4.38. Up Dir Insert [Text]
- 6.4.39. Up Insert [Layer Only]
- 6.4.40. Up Roll [Layer Only]
- 6.4.41. Wavy Style [Text]
- 6.4.42. Zoom In [Layer Only]
- 6.4.43. Zoom Out [Layer Only]
- 6.5. Blurs
- 6.6. Channel
- 6.7. Color Correction
- 6.7.1. Auto Color
- 6.7.2. Auto Contrast
- 6.7.3. Auto Levels
- 6.7.4. Brightness & Contrast
- 6.7.5. Color Adjustment
- 6.7.6. Color Balance
- 6.7.7. Color Correction Wheels
- 6.7.8. Color Temperature
- 6.7.9. Crush Blacks & Whites
- 6.7.10. Curves
- 6.7.11. Custom Gray
- 6.7.12. Dehaze
- 6.7.13. Exposure
- 6.7.14. Exposure Pro
- 6.7.15. Gamma
- 6.7.16. Hot Spots
- 6.7.17. Hue, Saturation & Lightness
- 6.7.18. Levels Histogram
- 6.7.19. Pro Skin Retouch
- 6.7.20. Tone Coloring
- 6.7.21. White Balance
- 6.7.22. YUV Color Correction
- 6.7.23. YUV Color Transform
- 6.8. Color Grading
- 6.8.1. Bleach Bypass
- 6.8.2. Cine Style
- 6.8.3. Classic Cine Style
- 6.8.4. Color Cycle
- 6.8.5. Color Map [Layer Only]
- 6.8.6. Color Phase
- 6.8.7. Color Vibrance
- 6.8.8. Day For Night
- 6.8.9. Duo Tone
- 6.8.10. Grading Transfer [Layer Only]
- 6.8.11. Hue Colorize
- 6.8.12. Hue Shift
- 6.8.13. Invert
- 6.8.14. LUT
- 6.8.15. Shadows & Highlights
- 6.8.16. Three Strip Color
- 6.8.17. Two Strip Color
- 6.8.18. Vibrance
- 6.8.19. Vignette
- 6.8.20. Vignette Exposure
- 6.9. Depth
- 6.10. Distort
- 6.10.1. Block Displacement
- 6.10.2. Bulge
- 6.10.3. Chromenator [Layer Only]
- 6.10.4. Derez (VGHS) [Layer Only]
- 6.10.5. Displacement [Layer Only]
- 6.10.6. Energy Distortion
- 6.10.7. Fluid Distortion
- 6.10.8. Heat Distortion
- 6.10.9. Insect Vision
- 6.10.10. Magnify
- 6.10.11. Mosaic
- 6.10.12. Puppet
- 6.10.13. Smoke Distortion
- 6.10.14. Twirl
- 6.10.15. Waves [Layer Only]
- 6.10.16. Witness Protection
- 6.11. Foundry
- 6.12. Generate
- 6.12.1. 3D Extrusion [Layer Only]
- 6.12.2. Animated Lasers [Layer Only]
- 6.12.3. Audio Spectrum [Layer Only]
- 6.12.4. Audio Waveform [Layer Only]
- 6.12.5. Auto Volumetrics
- 6.12.6. Caustics [Layer Only]
- 6.12.7. Clone
- 6.12.8. Clouds
- 6.12.9. Cosmos
- 6.12.10. Dimension Rift [Layer Only]
- 6.12.11. Distance Field
- 6.12.12. Drop Shadow
- 6.12.13. Electro
- 6.12.14. End Credits Crawl
- 6.12.15. Fractal Noise
- 6.12.16. Grid
- 6.12.17. Hyperdrive
- 6.12.18. Letterbox
- 6.12.19. LightSword (2-Point Auto) [Layer Only]
- 6.12.20. Lightsword (4-Point Manual) [Layer Only]
- 6.12.21. Lightsword (Glow Only) [Layer Only]
- 6.12.22. Lightsword Ultra (2-Point Auto) [Layer Only]
- 6.12.23. Lightsword Ultra (4-Point Manual) [Layer Only]
- 6.12.24. Lightsword Ultra (Glow Only) [Layer Only]
- 6.12.25. Neon Path [Layer Only]
- 6.12.26. PiP (Picture in Picture)
- 6.12.27. Pond Ripple
- 6.12.28. Pulp Sci-Fi Title Crawl
- 6.12.29. Radio Waves
- 6.12.30. Reflection
- 6.12.31. Sphere [Layer Only]
- 6.12.32. Split Screen Masking [Layer Only]
- 6.12.33. Stroke
- 6.12.34. Text
- 6.12.35. Tile
- 6.12.36. Timecode
- 6.12.37. Vector Stroke
- 6.12.38. Vertical Video
- 6.12.39. Water Caustics
- 6.12.40. Wireframe
- 6.13. Geometry
- 6.14. Gradients & Fills
- 6.15. Grunge
- 6.16. Keying
- 6.17. Lights & Flares
- 6.18. Particles & Simulation
- 6.19. Scene
- 6.20. Scopes
- 6.21. Sharpen
- 6.22. Stylize
- 6.23. Temporal
- 6.24. Video Clean-up
- 6.25. Warp
- 6.26. Presets
- 6.1. 360° Video
- 7. Licensing Details