HitFilm 2 Ultimate came free with my Sony Vegas Pro 13 upgrade. It is pretty powerful software, right up there with Adobe AE, so the learning curve is pretty steep. However I have really wanted to get into some more serious 3d animating etc, so I am diving in head first.
This is a fairly simple render, mostly just trying to get the hang of the complexity of creating a scene.
I have been using HT Ultimate from the start and is a great program. I was going to get the update to Pro but found it did not integrate into Vegas. I use Vegas for main editing and then send the clip over to HT for effects.
You might have seen my Rise of Flight movie "The Kid" that uses many of HT's effects. http://youtu.be/nGDSbks33WU
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