Travis Whitworth Hmmm.. Caustics is going to be the key to many, if not most water/ice effects in Hitfilm. I seriously could have done another half hour to hour just on caustics. What's confusing you, and I'll see if I can help.
I wouldn't say that I"m confused, but like any vfx video you use what you learn to stretch what you already know. I'm very interested in learning to create effects close to the way that water benders (avatar) use water, or iceman (xmen) uses ice projectiles. I don't see enough examples of simulations like this to begin to understand how to composite something like that.
Travis Whitworth Let me put some thought into this. Iceman projectiles are pretty easy. Waterbending is trickier. Are you in Express or Pro? I don't want to think particle simulation if you're in Express and don't have that tool. I think this is the first Hitfilm tutorial that goes into any detail on caustics.
cant believe u can do this all for free a freaking love everything u guys put out and u guys make tutorials great!!! told my brother who ever finds the best video editor first wins, guess he won lol
That's pretty nice I love Hitfilm4Express there are so many things you can do without paying any Money, it's fantastic. And Hitfilm4Express is in my opinion the only usefull software where you can make more than cut some of your media! You guys are awesome you make an awesome Job I can't write in English because im german it's awesome. Hitfilm is awesome.
Eaze Day Ent. Do a search for masking tools in Hitfilm. The "scribble" effect comes down to either hand-animating small masks, or, exporting an image sequence and editing the frames in a photo editor.
Question: what is the purpose of the stone layer at the bottom to the finished product. Would any texture do or was a stone texture chosen for a reason? I'm mostly a newbie so this was a little over my head anyway, but it was a great tutorial and eye opening to all of the possibilities!
i ABSOLUTELY LOVE hitfilm 4 express IT IS FREE AND SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SOGREEEEEAAAAAT!!! Really it's full of power and features thanks so much for making it avasilable for free i love it and i am sure people will find out it;s amazing power and put it to creative use -- it will defintiely help me make better short films - also thanks so much guys for making all these fantastic tutorials i love them all
We're very glad to hear you found the software so useful and giving you what you need to make better short films! :) Thanks for your support. - Oli (HitFilm Staff)
Your Software & tutorial both are so nice & user friendly . If tutorial are in HINDI For indian users. So it is one of the best assets for us....... I have to thank you for such a nice software
RED ALERT! Maybe Kirstie has "Jesus hair" and mine's more "John the Baptist!" ;-) I cycle every few years. Grow it out, chop it off, donate it to a wig charity. :-)
I love that effect! looks great! I have a question, I am doing a James Bond short film and I was wondering if there are any muzzle flash effects included with HitFilm 4 Express?
NDKfilms there's a 3D, procedural muzzle flash effect it the "Destruction" add-on pack. Hitfilm Express can composite stock elements like other software. There are Ae tutorials on creating your own muzzle flashes with fractal noise that work exactly the same in Hitfilm.
Angry Matthews The caustics generated in the video are created inside Hitfilm. It's all generated media. If you're asking about the source photograph, well, I took that, so I suppose I could put that on Dropbox for you if you really want it.
Yes, please and thank you so much. Also do you know how to do an edit of ocean water that goes up the the sky, it's like the Paramount Pictures intro but there are no stars and instead of a mountain it's a sunset and it pauses like this tutorial.
I have a problem, hitfilm was fine at first but know every time I import a video it comes in upside down, I flip it over and deal with it but it prevents me from masking please help.
I have a question hitfilm express doesn't work for me. It says my computer doesn't have the software needed to run hitfilm express, what programs do i need to run hitfim? Please reply
Does it say you don't have the 'hardware' required rather than 'software'? You can check out the minimum system requirements here: hitfilm.com/express/specs If you need further assistance please contact our support team and we'll be able to take a more in-depth look for you. hitfilm.com/questions/submit - Oli (HitFilm Staff)
Fartox Playz You can change the length of your composite shot by going to your media, and then clicking the settings button on your composite shot. (located at the top left) when you click it, it should take you staright to you composite shot settings where you can then adjust the length of the comp. I hope these instructions are understandable and that they help.
Glad I could help, I was pretty nooby myself, and I still am in many ways. I've been using Hitfilm for about a year. I think you'll get better with practice and research.
TheUnderCoverGamer I'd say yes. You'll need to build your maps correctly. Once you make your color map, you'll use that as a surface texture at 100% opacity. You'll need to copy your surface texture map to another comp and make that black and white and adjust a bit--bright areas of lava become the low points of the height map. You won't want a bottom texture at all as lava is opaque, so set the bottom texture depth to 0 so you don't have refraction artifacts. You won't want an Environment Map at all. After that, put glows in the effects chain. Take a look at the Parallax filter. It's basically like the height map section of Caustics without the reflection/refraction stuff.
Mike briefly touches on this subject towards the end of the video. If you'd like some more info on this I highly recommend asking on the HitFilm forums :) hitfilm.com/forum/categories/hitfilm-techniques - Oli (HitFilm Staff)
Hi I could use a bit of help with hitfilm 4 express I have a clip that is 1hour and 20 minutes long saved on a USB drive but when I go to edit the clip and make it short and cut a few parts out here and there hitfilm always freezes up ?
I did but its still freezing up? I was needing to edit the video and make it a bit shorter than what it is but I cant because it freezes every time I can edit short clips but longer clips always freez?
OMYGOSH! This is so good! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! Thank you so much! Love everything you do! I'm scripting a film at the moment and this could be pergect for a shot were a part of the sand (I'm on a beach) drops down like a lift! Thanks again! Keep up the good work!
Hedydd Ioan That'll work! No Environment Map, opaque surface texture of sand, a static fractal noise for some texture, and a mask for the lift! Caustics is a "psuedo 3D" effect. It's drawing a fake 3D on a 2D plane, so you might have to mask some of the sand back over yourself as you drop. Good luck with the shot.
HitFilm supports a large number of file types, you will need to convert your .flv files into something compatible in order to use them. You can see the full list of supported files here: hitfilm.com/express/specs - Oli (HitFilm Staff)
Lion / Agario on the Hitfilm University channel, Episode 07 covers several free transcoder tools and also lists optimized settings for Hitfilm. That might help.
John9 Exported video should be at the same frames/sec as your project/composite shot settings. Sounds to me like you edited a 60fps video then exported at 24fps. Think of it like this: We've cut one second of 60fps video. Hitfilm has 60 frames of footage. Now, if you export at 24 fps, Hitfilm still has 60 frames of data. This means Hitfilm will export all 60 frames, which, at 24fps is 2.5 seconds. That's the same ratio you're having--from 2 seconds to 5 seconds.
This was an awesome tutorial. I learned so many things, thank you.
Please MOAR water and ice tutorials. I am wrecking my brain over understanding how to make this look good
Travis Whitworth Hmmm.. Caustics is going to be the key to many, if not most water/ice effects in Hitfilm. I seriously could have done another half hour to hour just on caustics.
What's confusing you, and I'll see if I can help.
I wouldn't say that I"m confused, but like any vfx video you use what you learn to stretch what you already know. I'm very interested in learning to create effects close to the way that water benders (avatar) use water, or iceman (xmen) uses ice projectiles. I don't see enough examples of simulations like this to begin to understand how to composite something like that.
Travis Whitworth Let me put some thought into this. Iceman projectiles are pretty easy. Waterbending is trickier.
Are you in Express or Pro? I don't want to think particle simulation if you're in Express and don't have that tool.
I think this is the first Hitfilm tutorial that goes into any detail on caustics.
I think so too. I'm currently in express, working on pro XD. I have the trial so I can still play around with things and have access to adobe too.
Travis Whitworth well, for reference, Caustics in Hitfilm is very similar to CC Glass in Ae. Learning one makes it easy to learn the other.
I didn't expect this video to get this crazy in the end. :)
love this tutorial...thankx hitfilm team....
cant believe u can do this all for free a freaking love everything u guys put out and u guys make tutorials great!!!
told my brother who ever finds the best video editor first wins, guess he won lol
Thanks ever so much :)
- Oli (HitFilm Staff)
Love the Red Bull can on the shelf at the beginning!Someone there has good taste!
Wow! Absolutely fantastic.
Sensei!!!!!!!!! Your like my favorite RUclipsr!!
i planned to skipp a bit trough the video. and watched all of it :) good job
That's pretty nice I love Hitfilm4Express there are so many things you can do without paying any Money, it's fantastic. And Hitfilm4Express is in my opinion the only usefull software where you can make more than cut some of your media! You guys are awesome you make an awesome Job I can't write in English because im german it's awesome. Hitfilm is awesome.
Thank you ever so much for such a nice comment :)
- Oli (HitFilm staff)
I have to thank you! For such a nice software!
HitFilm is there any possibility to import 3d models into hitfilm4 express
the "Money" is a pronoun, not a noun- apparently.
+RatioRadio Their English isn't the best. Don't judge them.
So many new toys to play with and I already have them. Ps can u bend space and time, given the amount of tutorials ur giving us Mike.
Thanks for the class Mike. Good stuff.
Is it possible to do the scribble effects(for example, Bruno mars music video "that's what I like") in hitfilm?
Eaze Day Ent. Do a search for masking tools in Hitfilm. The "scribble" effect comes down to either hand-animating small masks, or, exporting an image sequence and editing the frames in a photo editor.
Very useful tutorial. Thanks so much.
No problem! We're glad to hear you found it useful :)
- Oli (HitFilm staff)
Question: what is the purpose of the stone layer at the bottom to the finished product. Would any texture do or was a stone texture chosen for a reason? I'm mostly a newbie so this was a little over my head anyway, but it was a great tutorial and eye opening to all of the possibilities!
Professor Snape on the Thumbnail!👍
i ABSOLUTELY LOVE hitfilm 4 express IT IS FREE AND SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SOGREEEEEAAAAAT!!! Really it's full of power and features thanks so much for making it avasilable for free i love it and i am sure people will find out it;s amazing power and put it to creative use -- it will defintiely help me make better short films - also thanks so much guys for making all these fantastic tutorials i love them all
We're very glad to hear you found the software so useful and giving you what you need to make better short films! :) Thanks for your support.
- Oli (HitFilm Staff)
This is amazeing
Your Software & tutorial both are so nice & user friendly . If tutorial are in HINDI For indian users. So it is one of the best assets for us....... I have to thank you for such a nice software
Thanks A LOT! This really helped!
You're most welcome!
- Oli (HitFilm Staff)
OMG Jesus was the guest this week xD sweet hair Mike :)
RED ALERT! Maybe Kirstie has "Jesus hair" and mine's more "John the Baptist!" ;-)
I cycle every few years. Grow it out, chop it off, donate it to a wig charity. :-)
Hey Red Alert, love your tutorials
great video.
Amazing!
supper this tutorial give me more ideas about realistic scene making thnks so much
Great to hear it's given you some ideas!
- Oli (HitFilm Staff)
I love that effect! looks great! I have a question, I am doing a James Bond short film and I was wondering if there are any muzzle flash effects included with HitFilm 4 Express?
NDKfilms there's a 3D, procedural muzzle flash effect it the "Destruction" add-on pack. Hitfilm Express can composite stock elements like other software. There are Ae tutorials on creating your own muzzle flashes with fractal noise that work exactly the same in Hitfilm.
Hitfilm University thanks a bunch!
NDKfilms yes I can add muzzle flashes in hitflim 4 express there are lots based on it
Thank you 😄
Nice but where can I get the water caustics used in this video and I don't get what's the composite shot all about, please help and reply.
Angry Matthews The caustics generated in the video are created inside Hitfilm. It's all generated media.
If you're asking about the source photograph, well, I took that, so I suppose I could put that on Dropbox for you if you really want it.
Yes, please and thank you so much. Also do you know how to do an edit of ocean water that goes up the the sky, it's like the Paramount Pictures intro but there are no stars and instead of a mountain it's a sunset and it pauses like this tutorial.
I went to generated media and clicked the caustics but nothing seems to happen.
I have a problem, hitfilm was fine at first but know every time I import a video it comes in upside down, I flip it over and deal with it but it prevents me from masking please help.
Tem como vocês colocarem legendas em português do Brasil? Gosto muito do HitFilm!
awesome
I have a question hitfilm express doesn't work for me. It says my computer doesn't have the software needed to run hitfilm express, what programs do i need to run hitfim? Please reply
Does it say you don't have the 'hardware' required rather than 'software'? You can check out the minimum system requirements here: hitfilm.com/express/specs
If you need further assistance please contact our support team and we'll be able to take a more in-depth look for you. hitfilm.com/questions/submit
- Oli (HitFilm Staff)
I think you need quick-time-player
Thanks! I will try it!
FINALY
now i can make a dark water effect so i can recreate JAWS.
But i didn't feed my shark......R.I.P.
Can this support Mod video files? If not then what do you recommend I get to convert mod files?
Also, will you update it to support MOD video files if it doesn't already do that?
can you do a cinematic video??
is there a way to keyframe in the editor?... if not, is there a way to make composite shots longer than 10 secs?...
[I'm a editing noob]
Fartox Playz You can change the length of your composite shot by going to your media, and then clicking the settings button on your composite shot. (located at the top left) when you click it, it should take you staright to you composite shot settings where you can then adjust the length of the comp. I hope these instructions are understandable and that they help.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Glad I could help, I was pretty nooby myself, and I still am in many ways. I've been using Hitfilm for about a year. I think you'll get better with practice and research.
Cool thanks
Nice
Any tutorials for motion graphics?
Wow!
can you tell us how to do fire effects
It might be crazy, but if I where to try to create lava in Hitfilm 4 pro, could I use this technique?
Please do try and let us know how it comes out :)
- Oli (HitFilm Staff)
TheUnderCoverGamer I'd say yes. You'll need to build your maps correctly. Once you make your color map, you'll use that as a surface texture at 100% opacity. You'll need to copy your surface texture map to another comp and make that black and white and adjust a bit--bright areas of lava become the low points of the height map. You won't want a bottom texture at all as lava is opaque, so set the bottom texture depth to 0 so you don't have refraction artifacts. You won't want an Environment Map at all. After that, put glows in the effects chain.
Take a look at the Parallax filter. It's basically like the height map section of Caustics without the reflection/refraction stuff.
Thank You
Can you make the Sordon Effect from Power Ranger?
hey so where can a find or get stock footage ?
I have a question. How do I make a flag move with caustics?
Mike briefly touches on this subject towards the end of the video. If you'd like some more info on this I highly recommend asking on the HitFilm forums :) hitfilm.com/forum/categories/hitfilm-techniques
- Oli (HitFilm Staff)
How do you make everything black and white expect one color ? PLZ help
Hi, check out this user made video on the subject ruclips.net/video/p7QsYn2FZVM/видео.html
- Oli (HitFilm Staff)
does express support any scripting language?
rivenblades No. Neither does Pro. Perhaps a future version of Hitfilm will add scripting, but that would likely be a Pro-only feature.
ok thanks
Hi I could use a bit of help with hitfilm 4 express I have a clip that is 1hour and 20 minutes long saved on a USB drive but when I go to edit the clip and make it short and cut a few parts out here and there hitfilm always freezes up ?
Copy the video to your computer first.
I did but its still freezing up? I was needing to edit the video and make it a bit shorter than what it is but I cant because it freezes every time I can edit short clips but longer clips always freez?
Use proxies and lower the resolution if necessary
OMYGOSH! This is so good! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! OMYGOSH! Thank you so much! Love everything you do! I'm scripting a film at the moment and this could be pergect for a shot were a part of the sand (I'm on a beach) drops down like a lift! Thanks again! Keep up the good work!
Hedydd Ioan That'll work! No Environment Map, opaque surface texture of sand, a static fractal noise for some texture, and a mask for the lift!
Caustics is a "psuedo 3D" effect. It's drawing a fake 3D on a 2D plane, so you might have to mask some of the sand back over yourself as you drop. Good luck with the shot.
Thanks!
why is the mac video player not supported, it means that i cant edit my videos :( please support the following file (.flv) on hitfilm 4 express
HitFilm supports a large number of file types, you will need to convert your .flv files into something compatible in order to use them. You can see the full list of supported files here: hitfilm.com/express/specs
- Oli (HitFilm Staff)
can you please give me a video converter that i can use
Lion / Agario on the Hitfilm University channel, Episode 07 covers several free transcoder tools and also lists optimized settings for Hitfilm. That might help.
How to make Godzilla scene in green screen?
Can you color grade on hitfilm?
Yes, there are a number of Color Grading options featured within HitFilm.
- Oli (HitFilm Staff)
HitFilm thank you!
When i export a video it becomes longer for some reason. From 2 min to 5 min its all slowed down, any idea why`?
John9 Exported video should be at the same frames/sec as your project/composite shot settings. Sounds to me like you edited a 60fps video then exported at 24fps.
Think of it like this: We've cut one second of 60fps video. Hitfilm has 60 frames of footage. Now, if you export at 24 fps, Hitfilm still has 60 frames of data. This means Hitfilm will export all 60 frames, which, at 24fps is 2.5 seconds.
That's the same ratio you're having--from 2 seconds to 5 seconds.
WOW
Can u help me too make room flat image into 3d real video
Take a look at this tutorial on projection: ruclips.net/video/RIa71QIxi6M/видео.html
- Javert (HitFilm Staff)
😂Thanks, I'm Practing this
You're welcome!
- Javert
Can you draw on frames in HitFilm Express? To do the scribble effect? As seen in this music video: ruclips.net/video/nntGTK2Fhb0/видео.html
Because i m making horror video for RUclips. I need something look like real room. All my image made in CorelDRAW png format
wow, i need to put way more time into making videos smh
.mov file not support 👎
.Quicktime files are indeed supported, as long as you have Quicktime installed. .mov is the Quicktime file extension.
Program does not work well