
Workflow changes include the option to customise playback quality, making it possible to reduce video quality to maintain interactivity on complex projects and support for background media importing. There are also 12 new built-in effects for 360° video, including blur, distort, glow and fisheye conversion.

The update builds on the tools introduced in HitFilm Pro 2017 for working with 360° video, adding a new viewer panel for viewing 360° footage in its original state while adding effects to the adjusted version. Text layers also now support environment maps, enabling text to receive specular and diffuse reflections from the environment.īuilt-in viewer and new effects for 360° video

There are also new geometry effects for titling, including Extrude, Bevel and Rotate. The latter enable layers to move using simple physics properties, including options to make the contents of one layer move towards or be repelled by the contents of another, or fall under gravity. New 2D animation and motion graphics options include the Puppet Tool, designed for creating cutout-style puppet animations and Behaviour Effects for animating text and 2D objects. There is also a new Adaptive Trimmer tool, which makes it possible to re-trim a clip after adding it to the timeline and a new Audio Hard Limiter effect for evening dynamic range between audio clips. The release – referred to as plain ‘HitFilm Pro’ in FXhome’s marketing material, but 6.0 in the update notes – marks a return to the old version numbering system, following last year’s flirtation with HitFilm Pro 2017.Īs with the 2017 update, HitFilm Pro 6.0 extends the software’s editing toolset, making it possible to create text or access any of the animation tools directly from the Editor timeline. The update reduces the price of HitFilm Pro from $349 to $299, but at the cost of removing Ignite Pro, the $199 suite of plugins for other compositing and editing apps that used to ship with the software.įXhome has also introduced HitFilm Studio, a product bundle including HitFilm Pro, Ignite Pro and the beta of new tool Action Pro, which enables users to record animation paths with a mouse or Leap Motion sensor.


FXhome has released HitFilm Pro 6.0, the new version of its editing, compositing, VFX and grading app, adding new timeline editing, titling and 2D animation options, including a new puppet animation tool.
