评论:FXhome HitFilm Pro

This article continues our series of looking at a few alternative NLEs from the perspective of a longtime Premiere Pro editor. FXhome’s HitFilm Pro is a relative newcomer to the nonlinear editing software scene. I would best sum up HitFilm Pro by saying that if Adobe made this, 它将被称为Premiere Effects, because FXhome has really done a pretty good job at mashing up a good NLE with a very good compositing application. It's like taking Premiere Pro and After Effects and making them all inside of one application.

UI布局

To begin, let’s look at the general layout of the application. 在最顶端 图1(下面), you can see there are four buttons: 首页, Project, Edit, and Export. 这就是您打开应用程序时的工作流程, 你首先看到的是什么，从那里你会去哪里.

图1. 使用这四个按钮开始在HitFilm Pro UI

In 图2(下面), you can see the 首页 screen is different from most applications. It's flooded with all these links to their YouTube tutorials on their channel and even some of their tweets here.

图2. HitFilm Pro的主屏幕

If you just scroll through what you see immediately on their YouTube channel, you can kind of get a feel for the audience that they're going for. 它有很多狂野、华丽的效果. It's meant to be an application that people can use to make Hollywood or film-style effects in their videos. I get the sense that a lot of their audience is short-film or low-budget filmmakers, people on YouTube that just want to make something crazy or fun. 这并不是说这就是它的全部意义, but that does seem to be an audience that they're trying to appeal to by showing off all the cool stuff you could do, like the Iron Man boots tutorial shown on the upper right in 图2, 我看了一个很酷的教程.

在图2的左侧, 你可以看到有新的, 开放, 和最近的项目选项. That project that's showing there is the test file we'll use as an example in this review. 下一个选项卡是项目, which is what it'll take you to if you hit the New button on the left of the 首页 screen.

图3(下面) 显示“项目设置”对话框. 在这里，您可以设置项目参数. You can see that HitFilm Pro does support up to 4K resolutions, so you're not going to be limited in the types of projects you can work on in here.

图3. HitFilm Pro的项目设置对话框

After you've set your parameters and applied them, next you’ll go to the Edit screen (下面的图4).

图4. 编辑界面

My project is already open, and 图4 shows the basic editing layout. 它确实有几个工作区, which you can access under the View menu (pull-down open in 图4), which will automatically change the layout of all the panels. 你可以在HitFilm Pro中拆下面板，我非常喜欢这个功能. Just by right-clicking on a project and telling it to float the container, you can then move it around or move it even on to a second screen. But for this project for now, we’ll stick with the default workspace for editing.

In this default workspace, on the left, you have your media bins. 低于, 有一些影响, 你的时间线在下面, and then basically your source and timeline viewers at the top. They call the source viewer the Trimmer, and the timeline or program viewer is just the Viewer. You'll also notice the Layer tab that toggles with the Viewer tab. 这是HitFilm Pro独有的. It will really come into play when we start looking at the compositing features.