The best Hitfilm 4 Express Beginner's Tutorial
Triem23
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Surfaced Studio takes you around Hitfilm from installation to Import, Export, basic Editing, Composite Shots, basic Effects, Audio and Transitions in a bit over 20 minutes.
Tobias writes:
In this absolute beginner tutorial I will take you through all of the cool things you can do with this great software.
Go here to download your copy of HitFilm 4 Express for free:
http://hitfilm.com/express
0:33 HitFilm 4 Express Overview
2:10 How to download HitFilm 4 Express
3:56 How to set up your project
4:40 The HitFilm 4 Interface
5:42 How to import your media
7:23 How to use the Trimmer
10:02 How to add a muzzle flash
12:28 How to add music & sound
14:40 How to work with Composite Shots
19:05 How to apply transitions
19:56 How to export your video
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Comments
Isn't he a nice man.....
It's a really great introduction to Express and editing/layering in general. In fact, I'm going to have to rethink a video I was planning out, because Tobias has done such a good job.
I took a full watch through and one thing that is happening on my playback is that when he says "Ok lets play it and see..." I don't see the mussal flash appear as expected. From the video it should appear and I am watching in HD, but odd how it's not showing. I have provided the you tube link here for the part that I think is not showing.
https://youtu.be/liduoxsYNsE?t=859
It's odd.
@SimonKJones I don't call it "best" lightly. Nothing is in-depth, but Tobias just hit enough of everything around the board to give an absolute beginner a quick tour.
(I also posted this because any "installation problem" or other super-basic questions that come up every day are largely covered here. Save myself some typing.
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@Andy001z I don't think you link kept the time marker. I actually downloaded this tutorial and in his full-screen playback at the end the muzzle flash is there. When he plays it on the timeline the Muzzle Flash is missing--but it's one frame long. I bet his screen recording software captured at 12-15 fps and just... Missed it
@Triem23 that is most likely it, the only issue is when I get to the end when we exports the video it to on YouTube is without the muzzle (oh I need more sleep that last spelling was shocking). Its a shame becuase it makes it look like it is not working.
@Andy001z odd, because I see the flash on the full-screen version at the end. Oh, well. Minor glitch likely caused by a screencap or YouTube compression glitch. Still a damn useful tutorial. And, again, it covers a lot of the basic questions that come up daily.
@Triem23 very true, a good one to reference for new users.
@Andy001z - Maybe you just need to buy youtube's new muzzle flash generator detector. ;^)
Wow
Somebody bribe him to do a tutorial on the Speed effect.