These elements will all be pretty familiar to anyone used to video editing software, and in my experience they all interacted and worked together well. The interface will make quick sense to anyone with experience of video editing (Image credit: Tom May) And the viewer is a window that shows you what your final, edited video looks like. The timeline shows a representation of your edit. The trimmer is where you preview your clips before you add them to your edit. The media panel makes it easy to import your videos and audio tracks. The main elements of the interface are as follows. To HitFilm's credit, this itself was pretty straightforward.

So I decided to stick with the default settings, and just float and rescale the interface's different elements in a way that worked best for me. That was a bit annoying, as I had to reboot my laptop each time I tried this.Įventually, I got everything looking a lot neater… but the text was too tiny for my ageing eyes to read. After a bit of Googling, I found most forum posts advised me to reset my laptop's display scaling. I ignored the message, opened the interface, and true enough, the interface did look a bit bunched up on the screen. I got this message after downloading the free version and clicking on the.

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