How to record better footage 

Thanks for the footage insight! HitFilm is number one in my books! I guess I am number one on this post ... lol

U are the best Hitfilm!

Thanks guys.

I am loving Hitfilm 4 Pro!! Absolutely perfect. If it were a car, it would be a Jaguar (proper British pronunciation). Truly great power in this program. Thank you for the video tutorials and thank you for your love of film craft.

One thing I would suggest is if recording a shot you're going to import 3d models into, manually fix your focus on something that's about the right distance away. Naturally autofocus doesn't work very well on imaginary objects. I'd be interested to see if anyone else has some suggestions on this particular topic.

Great tips for beginners! I would only add that capturing in 4K and down-res-ing to 1080p in post is also a great option. You'll still get better quality images and also have the ability to punch in to your image in post if you want to :) Cudos HitFilm!

Awesome video! Really helpful tips for beginners :)

4k footage downscaled to FullHD gets you supersharp image. Shooting 4k enables lot of things like cropping in post without a loss of visible pixels etc... so 4 is way to go ;)

I love you Kirstie Tostevin!

great video as always guys!

Great tips guys! Keep up the good work! These videos are helpful!

I have to add my vote for 4K *sometimes*. I agree that for the most part 1080P is the answer. There's a well known "hiccup" that occurs every 4Gbyte barrier of a few frames, which isn't a big deal visually but you lose the sound (a good reason to *always* use external recorder). At 4K you will get this hiccup far more often (downside). BUT, if you can utilize cropping, then 4K is the way. Imagine a video of a speaker with a fixed camera, for example. You can track that person's body and have a crop that seems like you are following them. For acting bits, you can cut or zoom to a close-up of the face and still end up with HD, impossible if the source is HD. If you are planning to use the full frame of what you are capturing, then by all means shoot in HD. But if there is a reasonable possibility that you will need to crop, zoom or stabilize, then use 4K. P.S. I never experimented with the difference of keying or compositing in HD vs 4K scaled down. It might also be a reason to shoot in 4K if you are.

Nice tips, thanks! :))

Thanks guys for the video NIce

The Canon T3i with 3x Crop is very nice.

why not 4k? because you can scale it down to 1080p and it will look better, and you could zoom in in post without the resolution going down!.

I wouldn't go so fast over a resolution. If you can shoot 4K without any big trouble it still looks better ( if your cameras good enough) in 1080 and you can still use it to zoom in for reframing.

Could we please get a tutorial on importing and texturing/how to use bump maps on 3D models?

Shutter speed rule of thumb is 1/ 2x frame rate. Just incase anyone's actually hunting for a shutter speed of 50 or 60 seconds ;)

Nice tips....

Wish you guys would've offered a little more visual examples for each tip. Just a thought, but thank you for this video.

Me and a friend are creating a star wars film, both are brand new with this whole filming and editing. I've seen nearly all of your videos and tutorials, all great! I know there was a time where you could get the lightsaber and lighting add on for free(December). Is there anyway i could get only these? Or get the add ons for a lower price? Thank you. -Kevin Del Rio

-sigh- i love you guys....thanks so much for the vids. #grouphug

I have a question: Is it possible to change the shutter speed on my camera: EOS CANON 700D?

1080p doesn't play smoothly on my Hitfilm 3 Express.

Please differ between the container(.mp4) and the video codec as you can still use poor codecs or good codecs with a wrong setup in your container.

Very clear video! Could you please tell me, if you are reading the text form a display or something or just practiced before speaking? This is something I do a lot, and I don't know if there is a better way than just practicing a lot...

How to make a good tracking shot

Oh dear... There is going to be some 4K hate from that last comment haha. It has its place, true. But if you are watching this video and didn't know about the 180° rule or native ISOs, than you should probably stay at 1080 until you get to grips on the many core concepts at play here.

cool guy :)

My content is recorded via OBS from Minecraft's runtime envirionment. What advice do you have regarding best practices, capture codec settings, and animated content recording in general?

How does that BB-8 work?

how to use more than one sd card in hit film 3 pro?

Oh and if you can make that video using hit film 3 express

Can you please show on how to make flying effects not using green screen please that would really help

2nd to comment!!!!

Any examples on those cheap lenses guys?

Good morning everybody, I am sorry for my English but I will try to explain. I got a question about sound and image who are not synchrone with each other, for better information, the example screen videoframes are just slower than the sound. Sow the sound is perfect but the video is not correct. When I try to play it Windows Media Player then both works perfect. But when I import and render it in HitFilm then it is not synchronated. Could you please tell me what I have to do and how it all works better? Camera from samsung galaxy note 4: 1080 p How you transfer from phone: via usb cable to external hard disk Editprogram I use on Phone: Kinemaster (app for android, best app I found for tablets and smartphones:P) Editprogram I use on PC: ofcours HitFilm 3 Express!!! Just one other question: I hurt and I test that in HitFilm the soundeditor is not as good as it has to be, Does HitFilm is going to be better also for sound?

what lenses under 100$ are you talking about?