These include both themed FX types (film damage, light flares, sci-fi effects, and so on) and specific toolsets, including advanced grading, noise removal, the particle engines and 3D model support. First off, some of the content from the commercial edition has been split out into a range of paid-for extension packs. Not surprisingly, there are some restrictions on what you can do in Express. Or at least like someone who’s followed an editing tutorial.” You can download the source footage from FXhome’s website, and view a series of video tutorials designed to have you “editing like a pro in no time.

There’s also some nice training material to help you get started, based around Portal Combat, Film Riot‘s new VFX short, created exclusively using HitFilm 3 Express, which you can see at the top of the story. It’s also a GPU-accelerated app, and one designed to run on relatively modest hardware: the minimum system is an Intel Core-i3 CPU or AMD equivalent, 4GB RAM and Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics. HitFilm 3 Express, out today, contains the application’s core functionality, and is licensed for commercial use.Ī powerful editing and effects tool in its own rightĪs with its predecessor, HitFilm 3 Express is a cut-down version of the current commercial version of the software, HitFilm 3 Pro, but it’s still a pretty powerful application in its own right.įor a start, you get the core editing and 3D compositing functionality from the Pro edition, plus 157 built-in 2D and 3D effects, including greenscreen, grading, and a range of lights and flares. It proved so popular that the developer has just done the same thing with version 3.

Last year, FXhome released Hitfilm 2 Express: a free edition of its editing, compositing and visual effects software.

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