One of the effects I was very excited to find in the HitFilm 2 plugins pack is the ‘Anomorphic Lens Flare’ effect. I won’t provide a complete list here (for that you can hop over to the official HitFilm 2 plugins page), but I do want to go through a few of my favourite effects and demonstrate why I enjoy using them. Here is a screenshot from the Effects & Presets panel in Adobe After Effects!Īll of the plugins are organised into categories and there are plenty of them. Once you’ve installed the HitFilm 2 plugins pack, you will see a large number of plugins appear in your video editing or visual effects compositing software.

So is it worth it? In this post I will take you through what is included in the HitFilm 2 plugins pack so you can decide for yourself! HitFilm 2 Plugins Pack Contents While that isn’t necessarily ‘cheap’, it contains a lot of effects that are similar to some standalone plugins that might set you back a couple of hundred dollars each. I did receive a free copy of the plugins pack to test them out, but if you were to purchase the pack, it would cost you $499 USD. For me, that was exciting news because I mainly use After Effects and Premiere Pro for my daily video work and having a large set of new plugins to play with gives me a lot of opportunities to create some cool VFX! But the most fun part of using HitFilm 2 for me was using the large number of inbuilt plugins and presets.įXHome, the creators of HitFilm 2, have recently released a plugins pack that contains over 130 of those plugins to be used in software packages like Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Final Cut Pro. I used it in my tutorial on how to create machine gun fire and aside from a few issues with performance, I actually enjoyed using it.

HitFilm 2 is a tool for indie film makers that combiles video editing and visual effects compositing features in a single software package.

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