The Undo’s, in the General Window, are something you’ll want to make sure you set before you get rolling, as well as the Composite Shot default duration and Timeline default duration. HFP’s options are divided up into 10 categories, of which you’ll really only need to focus on a few of them to get you up and running. Head up to the “File” drop down, and once you click on it, you’ll notice the “Options” button, at the bottom of the window.
Alright, let’s move on now and talk about HFP’s Options, and where you can find them, as they are tucked away a little bit, at the top of the interface. Unlike most editing or non-linear editing applications, the keyboard shortcuts are in a category all their own, but in HFP, they are included with the other options as, to be honest, there aren’t too many of them.
Well, the in and out points were pretty obvious, but the others take a bit of digging to find, so in the next lesson, we’re going to take a look at HFP’s options, and how you can access them inside of either the editing or compositing interface. Now, with all that being said, you’re probably wondering, “How did he know what all the keyboard shortcuts were?”. If you’re going with my method of taking one clip, dropping it into your timeline, and then breaking it down, you can drop the main clip into a timeline using the method I described above, and then simply use the keyboard shortcut of CMD/CTL+SHFT+D to add edits to the master clip, and create sub-clips from it. You can import clips using CMD/CTL+I and once they’re in the project, you can double click on them to call them up into the trimmer, and use I/O to mark in and out points, and use the keyboard shortcuts of “B” and “N”, respectively, to edit clips into your timelines. You’ll notice immediately that the HFP editor looks just like most standard editing applications, just in a more stripped down and streamlined version. There are much better (and free) editing applications out there, so what I’m normally doing in the editor in HFP is taking a clip that might have 10 edits in it, breaking it down into its individual parts, and then doing whatever compositing work I need to do to it.
Once you’ve selected “Start Editing”, the HFP editor will open, and you’ll be ready to import your footage, and start putting it together for compositing. I also want to cover HFP’s Options in this lesson, so you know where things like the Autosave feature is. In the next couple of lessons, I want to cover the editing basics so you can see the basic functionality, as I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this that you are already an editor, and might just use the editing abilities of HFP to throw together a few clips to start working with. In our last lesson, in our look at learning HitFilm Pro, we talked about setting up our projects, and we had discussed that you can both edit and do compositing work in HitFilm Pro (HFP).
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