All of those advanced controls Hitfilm Express now offers are neatly contained in a dedicated text panel.

Just click the text icon in the viewer panel and start typing. We found creating text in Hitfilm Express to be more straightforward than in many paid editors, too. The software also enables you to add multiple outlines to individual characters, which means you can generate some very eye-catching titles. In Hitfilm Express 15, you can now create all caps, subscript, and superscript text, plus set kerning and tracking for individual characters. Hitfilm Express has been rolling out increasingly complex text controls over the past several releases. This is standard among high-end editors like Adobe Premiere Pro, but it’s often lacking in free video editors. We also appreciated that Hitfilm Express enables you to trim and render clips inside the media panel before dragging them onto the timeline.

Hitfilm Express makes it easy to organize, trim, and render source clips when starting a new project (Image credit: FXhome)

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