I’m not going to get too much into it here, as we’re going to dedicate a few lessons to Mocha HitFilm, but keep in mind that you can import Composite Shots into your projects, and work with them much as you would any other clips. When exporting your tracking information out of Mocha HF, what it’s actually doing is exporting composite shots, for you to import back into HitFilm to work with. There’s something else important that I want to mention here, and it’s a workflow tip when working with extensions like Mocha HitFilm. Once you’ve created your composite shot, you’ll see it appear in the Media Tab, and HitFilm will take your shot, drop it into the composite shot, open it, and you’re now ready to create whatever type of composite you need to. Keep in mind that HitFilm’s compositing shots work the same as other compositing applications like Nuke and Fusion, where you’re dealing with one shot at a time. Once you’ve decided that, you can simply lasso it, or select it, right click and select “Make Composite Shot”. The first thing you’ll need to do is to figure out which shot you want to include in your composite (keep in mind that you can only do a shot at a time when creating composite shots). With this technique, we’re going to assume that you’re going to be editing a clip or clips in a timeline, and at some point you realize that you want to to some text work with 3D elements including lights and cameras. Let’s first talk about editing and working with Composite Shots. For this lesson, I want to talk specifically about the two ways to create composite shots, and when you would use each of them.

We’re going to get to effects work in an upcoming lesson. Keep in mind, adding Titles is considered to be a “complex” composite.Ĭomposite shots are not for doing straightforward effects work. They are containers, specifically, for creating complex composites. Even though they seem to serve that purpose, that’s not what they are used for. I think it’s important to talk about Composite shots and what, exactly, they do, as most people think they are like nests or pre-comps, like in After Effects. In this lesson, we’re going to talk about Compositing and Composite Shots in particular, and the two main decisions you need to make, when you’re going to do compositing in HitFilm Pro. In our last lesson, in our look at learning HitFilm Pro, we wrapped up our discussion of the toolbar by looking at the Rate Stretch Tool, and your exporting options.

Hitfilm express composite shot