HitFilm 3 Pro from FxHome isn't just an editor, 3D compositor, color corrector, and media management utility, but all four - and more - rolled into a single application that runs on Mac or Windows. A unified user interface means you can toggle between the editing timeline and VFX compositor just as easily as you would change tabs in a web browser. This means you can quickly make that transition from one working mode to the next - a particular boon for productions where a single editor is responsible for the entire post production process.
Users of other Editing applications will appreciate HitFilm 3 Pro, too. It includes 130 plugins that can be installed in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Sony Vegas, After Effects, and Motion. In addition, 3D animators can import, work on, and export 3D models to provide interoperability with other 3D software. Furthermore, extrusion can be applied to 2D images to create full 3D scenes.
What's New in Version 3?
Update to Particle Simulator: New emitter types and 3D model textures
New 3D camera projection: Turn 2D images into 3D scenes
Update to atomic particles: Create atomic arrays from 3D models
Update to tracked masks with mocha: Apply mocha tracked data to HitFilm masks
New denoiser tool based on the latest academic research
Over 20 new 2D effects added
New grading tool with curves
Updated 3D models with better fidelity and new rendering options
New OpenFX and HitFilm Plugins
Updated editor with full-sized trimmer
Background proxying and UI redesign
Added support for 16-bit OpenEXR in-to-out
Key Features
For a Broad User Base
HitFilm 3 Pro provides features designed for beginners and experts alike. You will find a comprehensive set of post production tools, from editing and 3D
compositing to particle effects, professional keying, and 3D object rendering. HitFilm 3 Pro merges professional 3D compositing and over 180 effects with it non-linear editing tools
Multitasker-Friendly Editing Timeline
Switching between your edit and visual effects shots is as quick as changing tabs in your web browser
Create Ground-Up 3D Compositions
Create entirely digital scenes and redesign your shots using advanced 3D compositing techniques
A VFX Studio
Experiment with over 180 effects, each of which can be pulled apart, altered,
and put back together again to create something entirely new
Plugs Into Third-Party Software
HitFilm 3 Pro includes 130 premium plugins for Premiere Pro, Final Cut
Pro X, Sony Vegas, and After Effects
Live 3D Model Rendering
Light, animate, and render 3D objects on your timeline. Super fast
GPU rendering keeps your productivity high, even while jumping between your edit and
complex 3D scenes
Greenscreen Removal
Chroma key, matte cleaning, spill suppression, and auto light wrap combine with sophisticated 2D and 3D layering to help ensure seamless greenscreen
composites
Particle Simulation
Fleets of spaceships, sprawling cityscapes, flocks of birds,
asteroid fields, a hail of arrows, a squadron of fighter jets, snow and rain, smoke and dust.
Create them all in full 3D with advanced physics and extensive customization
OpenFX Plugins Compliant
HitFilm 3 Pro is
an expandable platform with OpenFX compatibility, so that you can use your favorite plugins
from other developers like GenArts
Unified 3D Space
Your layers exist in a unified 3D space. Push a 3D object through a
genuinely 3D particle cloud. Sit your greenscreen actor inside the cockpit of a 3D helicopter - you won't have to worry about wrestling with the render order
Organic Particle Shapes
Create particle clouds based on 2D shapes or 3D
geometry, and then warp them into organic forms with extensive fractal distortion. You can even
mix in an audio clip to automate the animation
Repair Broken Footage
Remove unwanted digital grain from your videos, fix "rolling shutter" artifact
caused by CMOS cameras without global shutter, stabilize jittery handheld shots, and remove distortion from
fisheye lenses
Correct Your Colors
Match footage shot on different cameras, fix white balance
issues, and adjust for changes in lighting. HitFilm 3 Pro gives you fine control over your
visuals, helping ensure your footage looks its best
Color Grading
HitFilm 3 Pro's color grading kit includes over 30 tools
designed to help give your movies a distinctive look - from subtle enhancements to dramatic stylistic statements
Tracking for Every Situation
HitFilm 3 Pro's multiple tracking options keep your camera
moving even when there are complex digital elements in the shot
Planar Tracking
A special version of mocha 4.0 is included with
HitFilm 3 Pro, delivering mask tracking and 3D camera solving. No more
tedious rotoscoping
Fire and Lightning
Procedurally generated fire and lightning with accurate behavior - the
appearance can be further enhanced with heat distortion and post-processed lighting effects
Weaponry Effects
HitFilm 3 Pro's gunfire effect generates an endless variety of muzzle
flashes, from pistols to miniguns. Unlike pre-rendered stock, these can be rotated in full 3D to
work from any angle
Flares and Lighting Effects
Mix and adjust flares, anamorphic streaks, light leaks, sparkling
highlights, volumetric 3D light rays, and high quality glows to enhance your cinematography
Retro Glitch
Grunge effects to make your video look like old film stock, or a bad television
signal. Break up your playback with jitters and stutters, introduce flicker and grain, or even add
procedural dirt to your camera lens
Motion Design and Titling
From titling to animated idents and promos, HitFilm 3
Pro's motion graphics tools are ready to tackle any job
3D Camera Projection
Take an ordinary 2D photo and convert it to a projected 3D
scene complete with camera movement
Professional Formats
HitFilm 3 Pro's 16-bit color pipeline and OpenEXR support helps ensures you get the best quality out of your projects - whether you shoot with your smartphone or on a 4K cinema
camera
GPU-Aware Playback Engine
On fast machines you enjoy real-time playback thanks to 64-bit
architecture and GPU-acceleration. More complex shots are proxied in the background while
you keep working
Editing
- Unlimited video and audio tracks
- Organize media by category or folder
- Trim, ripple, roll, slip, slice, and slide editing tools
- Ripple delete
- Clip trimmer
- Insert and overlay from trimmer
- Add effects directly to your clips
- Convert any clip into an advanced effects shot
- Quick transitions: wipes, dissolves, motion, zooms
- Snap to clips and playhead
- Multiple framerate support
- Enable and disable tracks
- Audio and opacity keyframing
- Change compositing blend modes per clip
- Send clip to mocha HitFilm for tracking
- List, composite, and RMS amplitude audio waveforms
- Audio meters with peaking
- Customizable video frame thumbnails
- Loop play a defined region
- Color correction tools
Compositing
- Layer-based 2D and 3D compositing
- Unified 3D workspace
- Combine multiple 3D cameras
- Adjust camera lens aperture, zoom, focal distance, and depth of field
- Add depth fog to 3D scenes with density and falloff controls
- Adjust shutter angle and phase for motion blur
- 3D point, direction, ambient and spot lights
- Linear and curve light falloff
- Adjust ambient, diffuse, specular, and shininess on a per-layer basis
- Import 3D objects in OBJ, LWO, and 3DS formats
- Diffuse and specular textures for 3D objects
- Adjust individual materials for 3D objects
- Ambient occlusion for 3D object rendering
- Animate individual 3D model groups
- Professional chroma key for greenscreen and bluescreen
- 15 keying and matte tools
- Matte clean-up
- Advanced spill suppression
- Automated light wrap
- 3D camera projection
- 2D feature tracking with optical flow technology
- Track and stabilize moving video
- 3D camera solving with mocha HitFilm from Imagineer Systems
- Import 3D camera tracking data from Boujou, SynthEyes, PFtrack, and more
- Dedicated layer view for tracking and masking
- Freehand, ellipse, and rectangle masks
- Automated mask tracking with mocha HitFilm from Imagineer Systems
- Create multiple composite shot timelines
- Embed timelines inside other timelines
- Layer parent-child linking
- Transform and animate layers
- Multiple blend modes
- 2D and 3D text
- Trim and move layers
- View multiple orthographic and 3D perspectives
- Multiple color channel view options
- Grade layers for applying effects to multiple layers simultaneously
Visual Effects
- Over 180 effects
- Advanced 3D particle simulator
- Physics-powered particle behavior with forces and deflectors
- Use 3D models as particle textures
- Create multiple particle emitters and particle systems
- Mobile emitters with force and deflector activation
- Organic fractal particle shapes
- Layer shattering
- Fire and lightning generators
- 3D muzzle flash generator
- Over 30 color correction and grading tools
- 17 distortion and warp effects
- 3D extrude any 2D layer
- Film and TV damage
- Procedural lens dirt
- Light flare design kit including anamorphic lens flares, auto flares, gleam, glow, light
- flares, light rays, light streaks, and neon glow
- Turn panoramic images into wraparound environments
- Apply bump maps to layers
- Correct rolling shutter distortion
- Remove unwanted noise and grain
- Clone specific areas of the frame
- Remove unwanted objects from your shots