HitFilm Ultimate

Blockbuster visual effects

In HitFilm Ultimate you'll find 2D and 3D visual effects of a quality never seen before at this price point. Transform your filmmaking without needing a blockbuster budget.

Gunfire

HitFilm's Gunfire technology is unrivalled. Create an infinite variety of fully 3D muzzle flashes to suit any weapon. If you make action movies, this effect will revolutionize your shootouts.

Lens flares

The procedurally generated lens flare effects in HitFilm are resolution independent and include lots of customization options for you to play with. You can even link lens flares to points in 3D space, opening up unique animation possibilities.

Procedural fire Ultimate exclusive

Create computer generated fire which reacts realistically to movement and interacts with other layers. Set other layers on fire or use them to block the path of the flames: perfect for titles and human torch effects.

Lightswords

Easily create sci-fi's most iconic weapon using HitFilm and show the fanfilm community what you can do. An elegant effect for a more civilized filmmaker.

Lightning Ultimate exclusive

HitFilm Ultimate's highly customizable electricity generator creates photorealistic storm lightning, intense Force lightning, tasers and other electrical effects.

Blood spray Ultimate exclusive

Horror and action filmmakers: this one is for you. Generate realistic blood and liquid splatter to turn your movies into non-stop gore fests.

Advanced particle simulator Ultimate exclusive

There's no other application that can rival the in-built particle simulator anywhere near the price of HitFilm Ultimate. Create sophisticated particle effects with complex behaviour, driven by physics simulation and forces, interacting with your layers in full 3D.

3D pre-built effects

In addition to the fully customizable particle simulator, a range of drag-and-drop smoke, fire, explosion and shockwave effects are included with HitFilm Ultimate. They're ready to go, so all you need to do is drop them into place.

High-end 3D compositing

HitFilm Ultimate happily mixes 2D and 3D layers on the same timeline so that your creative vision is never restricted.

Genuine 3D environment

In HitFilm Ultimate, everything exists in the same 3D environment, so layers interact with each other and particle simulations, without having to use workarounds.

Ultimate enhanced

3D compositing

Green screen

If you use green screen you'll find the keying and matte cleaning tools will handle whatever you throw at them and the editor/compositor hybrid design makes for a fast, intuitive workflow.

Ultimate enhanced

Green screen compositing

Track & stabilize Ultimate exclusive

HitFilm Ultimate has its own 2D point tracker with optical flow and template match options for fast, accurate results. Track features and stabilize handheld videos without needing additional software.

Temporal effects Ultimate enhanced

Exclusive time displacement and channel shift effects join the speed ramping, motion trails and other time-based effects.

Fine tuning Ultimate enhanced

In addition to the standard spill removal, light wrap and color correction tools, HitFilm Ultimate also includes advanced matte cleaning features to ensure the best possible results.

Invisibility & cloning

Create Predator camouflage and wizard invisibility cloaks with the versatile displacement effect, or use split screen and masking to clone your actors.

Supports 4K resolution Ultimate exclusive

When your movies move beyond HD HitFilm Ultimate will be ready with native support for up to 4K resolution.

Masks

HitFilm's masking tools are great for creating sophisticated interaction between layers, tidying up the edges of your green screen studio or removing unwanted parts of an image or video.

Depth of field & motion blur

HitFilm's 3D cameras work realistically, with optional depth of field automatically blurring layers based on their relative distance from the lens. Turn on automatic motion blur for more realistic movement of your 2D and 3D layers.

Light & shadow

You can be a virtual cinematographer with HitFilm Ultimate's range of lighting options. A dramatic atmosphere can be created in post using incredible lighting effects and dynamic shadows.

3D camera data import Ultimate exclusive

HitFilm Ultimate is compatible with most camera tracking data apps. Get your camera off its tripod and create amazing handheld visual effects shots that look as realistic as anything you see at the cinema.

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Video editing included

HitFilm Ultimate isn't just a visual effects application. You also get a full editing solution that is ideal for working on short films, video blogs, corporate videos, music videos, documentaries – whatever your project, HitFilm Ultimate can meet the challenge.

Multi track editing Ultimate enhanced

HitFilm Ultimate has full multi-track editing with unlimited video and audio tracks, so you can edit without restrictions. HitFilm Ultimate can be used to edit anything from short films and video blogs to documentaries all the way through to features length movies.

Transitions

A selection of high quality video and audio transitions are included to enhance your editing, from fades and dissolves to animated wipes.

Super fast workflow

Nobody likes having to transfer videos between different apps. If you edit with HitFilm you can switch effortlessly to 2D or 3D compositing and back again without having to wait for clips to render.

Project history Ultimate enhanced

HitFilm Ultimate keeps track of all your decisions, listing them in the history panel. Jump back in time to compare changes and safely explore your ideas.

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Professional color grading

Film looks Ultimate includes more

While we'd all love to shoot on $10,000 cameras, it's not always an option. With HitFilm's color grading and "film look" presets, all your movies can look amazing no matter what camera you have.

Stunning color filters Ultimate includes more

HitFilm Ultimate comes with over 110 effects for blurring, sharpening, distorting, warping, color correcting and stylizing your videos. Combine any number of effects to create entirely unique results.

Complete filter list Ultimate includes more

Audio

  • Channel Levels
  • Tone

Distort

  • Bezier Warp
  • Bulge
  • Chromenator
  • Displacement
  • Fisheye Warp
  • Insect Vision
  • Magnify
  • Perspective Warp
  • Polar Warp
  • Pond Ripple
  • Quad Warp
  • Reflection
  • Shake
  • Tile
  • Twirl
  • Vortex Displacement Warp
  • Waves
  • Witness Protection

Temporal

  • Channel Time Shift
  • Echo
  • Jitter
  • Motion Trails
  • Speed
  • Stutter
  • Time Displacement
  • Time Reverse

Blur & Sharpen

  • Angle Blur
  • Bilateral Blur
  • Blur
  • Diffuse
  • Radial Blur
  • Sharpen
  • Unsharpnen
  • Zoom Blur

Generate

  • 4-Point Color Gradient
  • Blood Spray
  • Clouds
  • Color Gradient
  • Drop Shadow
  • Fill Color
  • Film Damage
  • Fire
  • Flicker
  • Gleam
  • Grid
  • Half Tone
  • Half Tone Color
  • Letterbox
  • Light Flares
  • Light Rays
  • Light Streaks
  • Lightning & Electricity
  • Radial Gradient
  • Radio Waves
  • Scan Lines
  • TV Damage
  • Timecode
  • Vignette

Channel

  • Channel Blur
  • Channel Mixer
  • Channel Swapper

Keying

  • Alpha Brightness & Contrast
  • Chroma UV Blur
  • Color Difference Key
  • Crush Blacks & White Alpha
  • Difference Key
  • Erode White
  • Hue & RGB Key
  • Invert Alpha
  • Light Wrap
  • Luminance Key
  • Matte Cleaner
  • Remove Color Matting
  • Set Matte
  • Spill Removal

Stylize

  • Bleach Bypass
  • Cartoon
  • Day For Night
  • Emboss
  • Find Edges
  • Glow
  • Mosaic
  • Neon Glow
  • Oil Painting
  • Posterize
  • Solarize
  • Three Strip Color
  • Threshold
  • Tint

Color

  • Auto Color
  • Auto Contrast
  • Auto Levels
  • Brightness & Contrast
  • Color Balance
  • Color Correction Wheels
  • Color Space Converter
  • Color Temperature
  • Crush Blacks & Whites
  • Exposure
  • Gamma
  • Hotspots
  • Hue Colorize
  • Hue Shift
  • Hue, Saturation & Lightness
  • Invert
  • Leave Color
  • Levels Histogram
  • Shadows & Highlights
  • Vibrance
  • White Balance

Noise & Grain

  • Grain
  • Grain Removal
  • Noise

16-bit floating point color Ultimate exclusive

Sometimes 8-bit color doesn't have the precision needed for high quality grading. To avoid banding and other grading artifacts HitFilm Ultimate works in professional 16-bit floating point color.

Supporting your filmmaking

HitFilm is easy to use, especially if you're already familiar with video software. If you ever need to ask questions you'll find online assistance, video tutorials and a friendly community only a couple of clicks away.

Free video tutorials

A series of detailed video tutorials are available for free from HitFilm.com and from within the application itself, so that you'll never be without nearby assistance.

Visit the tutorials section

Home screen hub

The Home screen keeps you in touch with the HitFilm community, delivering the latest news, software updates and video tutorials direct to your computer.

Stay up-to-date

HitFilm is always being improved with optimizations and new features. As soon as an update is available the software will let you know. All point updates (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc) are entirely free.

Join the community

When you purchase HitFilm you join an international community of filmmakers where everybody works together to watch your movies, give useful feedback and collaborate.

Multiple installs

You can install HitFilm Ultimate on up to three computers at the same time. Create VFX on your desktop and notebook without needing to buy extra copies!

Comprehensive documentation

You can find out about every feature of HitFilm Ultimate using its in-built help system. Quickly search for the feature you want to use and discover everything you need to know.

Friendly support

If you need extra help there's a growing global community to talk to and rapid assistance available through the HitFilm support center.

Share with the world

Be a HitFilm creator

Submit your movie and you might be promoted through the HitFilm website and YouTube channel. All you need to do is tick a box and make a great movie and we'll help you get some more hits.

Integrated YouTube upload

Everybody is on YouTube and HitFilm makes it easier than ever, automatically converting your videos for optimum HD playback before uploading them to your channel.

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Utilizes the latest hardware

GPU acceleration

HitFilm uses the power of your computer's graphics card for fast performance, even when working in full 3D with complex particle simulation. Use your graphics card for more than just games!

64-bit & 32-bit

If you have a 64-bit computer you can take advantage of your extra memory to create more complicated projects.

Multi-core aware

Whether you're using a regular dual core desktop or an ultra powerful six-core workstation, HitFilm Ultimate will make good use of all your system's resources.

Works with your files

Media organizer

The Project Media list takes care of all your videos, images and audio clips. You can organize them yourself or let HitFilm Ultimate do it for you, keeping everything neat, tidy and easy to find.

Format compatibility

You can use most common video, image and audio formats in HitFilm, including WMV, MP4, AVI, MOV and MXF. This means that whether you shoot on a camcorder, a DSLR or semi-pro cameras we've got you covered.

Multiple export formats

Export your videos using a standard template or by customizing your settings. With HitFilm you have full control over your exported videos.