I started using HitFilm in 2015 and purchased Pro in 2017 and again in 2019.

The free version is solid (Fusion is a trauma, no questions there) and when they're ready to do something more advanced, they get a 1 time purchase and they're good to go, since so far they didn't charge for updates. No offence but i can't blame old Express only user to jump ship to Davinci. Hitfilm just straight up said: You either pick this freebie and later upgrade to a plan or buy an 'half sub' perpetual license or you stick to Express and whatever addon you owned till that point. I get that FX Home lives off of his software primarily and BlackMagic has also hardware to get money from people so Davinci itself is less of a investment for em but. it's been a while since the humble bundle version), slow playback, lack of nested sequences / compound clips (the only workaround was to create a 'Composite Shot' to contain multiple clips) and worst of all for me back then was that you couldn't add more mask points if you were already pretty far in keyframing something, cause said new points would not follow the old keyframes, they would just sit there.

I did play around with the old pro version, but aside crashing like hell back then (and now as well since again. it's still an half subscription anyway, cause you get 12 months of upgrades and that's it, after that you gotta buy again Hitfilm (albeit with a small discount) or stay on a dated or buggy (god forbid) version. is with a subscription, no ifs or buts bout it.As for your. those are distinctions without much of a difference.įree version as far as i can tell removed features that were available in Express, so already, we got a downgrade.This is even MORE true, when the Express version was upgraded by some with Addons, which are now gone and the only way to have em cheap.

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