HitFilm for Mac

HitFilm for Mac is the best way to discover the excitement of making your own movies. With power editing and amazing special effects, no other video product offers such a massive range of features and free training at this kind of price.



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With powerful video editing and mind-blowing special video visual effects, this software is a top-of-the-line product for creating and editing your own movies and videos. Get it now!

HitFilm (formerly HitFilm Express and HitFilm Pro) gives you access to the most powerful free video-editor and VFX software on Earth and a community of 2.9 million filmmakers.

• Professional-grade video editor
• Full 2D and 3D compositing
• 410+ effects and presets
• Free video tutorials and projects
• Unlimited tracks and transitions
• Windows 11/10 & latest macOS compatibility

Let a powerful editing suite take you where you want to go faster. Have full control from start to finish. Create professional videos and fix your audio with ease in HitFilm for macOS. With some of the industry’s leading creative features like unparalleled animation tools, coupled with super-fast performance, editors worldwide choose the app as their non-linear video editor of choice to deliver incredible results.

• Free version of the app for an unlimited time
• All the basic editing tools you need
• Free built-in music and sound effects
• Ready-to-use customizable designs

Copy, trim, sync, and slice at lightning speed using HitFilm’s multi-core and GPU accelerated system. With a new sequence and compositor prefetcher, developers have found a way to improve your playback performance with no compromise on your workflow. With new threaded rendering, your interface will always be snappy and fast, no matter what is rendering underneath.

Boot up, import and edit with no soul-crushing lag time. Hit Film’s high-performance system processes your footage in the background, so you can keep editing without interruptions.

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Free Plan
Basic video editing tools - 10 songs, 25 sound effects and 5 templates

Creator - €6.25 /month
Advanced video & image editing tools

Pro - €9.99 /month
Unlimited access to everything, create without limits

Work with 8K video and 32-bit color for high-end professional projects. Enjoy quick and easy export to YouTube. With an export queue and intuitive presets, you can step away from your desk and leave the app to resume exporting everything you need without prompt.

Features and Highlights

Give yourself the best start
Being new to filmmaking or having a tiny budget doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have the best tools. It will change your expectations.

Big features, a small price
HitFilm isn’t just a video editor. It’s also fully-featured visual effects and compositing product. You won’t find that combination anywhere else.

Everything you need
From edit to upload, the program has everything you need to complete your movie masterpiece. Spend less on software and more on cameras and equipment!

Hours of free training
Get maximum value from the program with free online tutorials and a friendly online community.

Powerful video editing
The foundation of a good movie is good editing. It gives you all the tools you need to construct your project, be it a movie, music video, or video blog.

Essential tools
It includes essential editing tools like ripple edit and transitions, plus multiple videos and audio tracks.

Easy YouTube upload
When you’re finished, upload high-quality HD video direct to YouTube from inside HitFilm (formerly HitFilm Express and HitFilm Pro)— couldn’t be easier.

Incredible visual effects
The software also includes a stunning toolkit for designing your own visual effects.

Over 410 effects
Lightning & electricity simulation, 3D computer-generated gunfire, 3D text, and realistic lens flares are just a few of the visual effects highlights included with Hit Film Express.

Advanced motion tracking
Borrow some Hollywood technology with HitFilm’ motion tracking features. Using sophisticated optical flow techniques you can track the movement of an object in a video, opening up a world of exciting visual effects possibilities.

Layer compositing
Craft entirely new scenes by combining videos, images on your timeline. Add effect to your layers to create stunning, unique visuals.

Shoot on green screen
Place yourself or your actors onto new backgrounds by shooting against a green screen. It makes it easy to create your own newsroom or sci-fi landscape.

3D text
The app is the only editing product in the industry to also offer true 3D space in which to create your VFX masterpieces. Transform your title from 2D to 3D to make it pop, and add 3D geometry effects such as extrude, bevel, and rotate to your text to create the exact look you want.

Lights and shadows
3D text is perfect for a bold film title, but you can also integrate text into a scene - the geometry effects in the app supports lights, shadows, and environment maps which make your text appear like real-world natural objects. Add glows, extrusion, emboss, or any other of 800+ visual effects directly to the text for customization to your heart's content.

Ray tracing
Give your titles some real-world feel using the Surface Studio effect. This powerful tool lets you generate animated textures with smooth or rough metallic and vitreous surfaces on any text (or layers) and have them interact with other objects in the scene. Reflect colors from your environment to turn your text into a reactive, cinematic object.

Captions in the editor
At its simplest, Program’s editor lets you add text to your videos quickly and easily. Use the text editor to fully customize your captions with multiple fonts, colors, alignments, and sizes to choose from.

2D track them. Animate them.
Make your title follow a character out of shot. Bounce it into the frame. Wipeout Scott Pilgrim-style. With advanced 2D motion tracking within HitFilm, you’ve got endless possibilities for exciting text animation.

Includes industry’s other favorite tools
If all that wasn’t enough, you also get BorisFX Continuum 3D Objects included (worth $299) so that you can extrude, shatter and deform your text. 3D Objects includes 2D/3D plugins like BCC Title Studio which adds 100 new presets and render options to your toolkit. With partners like this, no title is impossible.

Biggest VFX toolkit in the industry
With the software, you have incredible 820+ VFX & presets at your fingertips, ready to use on any layer. From Justice League Flash effects to Ghostbusters-style proton beams, a range of customizable effects is unmatched. Turn back time with an old Western-style shoot with muzzle flashes, add some class to a product shoot with lens flares or scale up your sci-fi short with electricity effects, energy distortions, and more.

Compositing & greenscreen
It ain’t easy fixing green - It created the most powerful Chroma Key in the industry to give you full control over edge detail, color correction, and spill simulation. Effortlessly extract your actors and objects with no lingering green edges.

Audio visualization
It includes tools for visual waveforms, spectrums, and even audio-powered atomic particles. Generate trance-inducing waveforms that tremble to bass lines or old-school bar equalizer graphics that bring back those 90s rave days of yore.

Using 3D models
Import your custom 3D models or animate 3D objects within your composite element by element. Make that BMW promo sleek and sophisticated with real-time, mirrored reflections of your own 3D models.

Particle engines
You’ll find yet another industry-leading piece of technology in HitFilm’s highly coveted particle simulator. It exists in a fully unified 3D space so you can easily enhance your scenes with effects like simulated fireworks and add simulated particles to layers of green screen footage and animation. Fully integrate your objects with 3D cameras, lights, and shadows for a more realistic look.

Alternatives

Movavi Video Editor – Intuitive with built-in effects.

Filmora – User-friendly with creative effects.

Adobe Premiere Pro – Industry-standard video editing.

iMovie – Free, easy-to-use, and great for beginners.

Final Cut Pro – Professional editing with advanced tools.

DaVinci Resolve – High-end editing with color grading.

Shotcut – Free, open-source, and feature-rich.

Lightworks – Pro-level editing with a free version.

How to Use

• Open HitFilm and create a new project
• Import media files into the media panel
• Drag clips to the timeline for editing
• Use effects panel to add VFX or transitions
• Trim, cut, and arrange clips as needed
• Adjust audio levels in the audio mixer
• Export the project using the export tab
• Choose resolution and format for final video
• Save the project file for future editing
• Update software regularly for new features

System Requirements

macOS 11.0 Big Sur or later

Intel or Apple Silicon processor

8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)

Graphics card with 2 GB VRAM (4 GB recommended)

1.5 GB free hard drive space for installation

PROS

• Powerful VFX and compositing tools
• Free version includes advanced features
• Regular updates and plugin support
• User-friendly timeline and interface
• Integrated 3D and particle effects

CONS

• High system resource usage
• Export options limited in free version
• Occasional crashes on complex projects
• Requires internet for activation and updates

Note: Requires free activation.

Also Available: Download HitFilm for Windows