In any case, I was offered an opportunity to talk to Kirstie Tostevin of FXHome about the program and see what’s new (even though at the time I literally thought I was learning about a new program) which you can read below. At that point in my life I was filming everything on a High-8 Handycam (later an XL2, which I still have) and absolutely using the opportunity to make Star Wars shorts in the fields with my friends. Unfortunately, I misremembered it as a different program so in the following interview… We didn’t talk about that! That’s my bad. I had this long nagging suspicion I had heard the name FXHome before and when writing this article it hit me. Now after however-many years of progress, Hitfilm has traditional NLE capabilities and has proven to be an excellent intro into the world of post-production. I had really only heard of Hitfilm Express in the context of answers online when someone asks “what’s a good free software I can edit with?” but come to find out it’s the successor to a program I used a while back in 2008 or so-called EffectsLab Pro, which was (as it sounds) an visual effects program. Part of this program is that FXHome will donate 10-20% of that purchase, currently being sent to the WWF and Australia Emergency Bushfire Fund, and each month a new charity will be the recipient. UK-based FXHome, makers of Hitfilm Express (the free version of Hitfilm Pro) recently announced that they’re launching a “Pay What You Want” program where you can, get this, pay what you want (if you want).

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