Best Visual Effects (VFX) Software with a Free Trial of 2024

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    HitFilm Pro Reviews

    HitFilm Pro

    FXhome Limited

    $349 per license
    1 Rating
    HitFilm Pro is the best choice for video editors and artists worldwide. HitFilm Pro is the best video editing software. It allows you to edit, titling, compositing and more in one product. All the tools you need to create videos are in one place. Our video editing software is industry-leading. It has powerful chroma keys, particle, and text tools - as well as the largest VFX software toolkit in the world. We work with some of the most prominent names in the industry to provide professional technology and creative tools, including Boris FX's professional titling tools, Foundry's 3D camera track, and support for VideoCopilot’s After Effects plugins. Our powerful video editing software will get you to where you want to be faster. HitFilm Pro's Video Editor offers everything you need to create dynamic and quick edits.
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    Adobe Creative Cloud Reviews
    Creative Cloud includes 20+ apps and services for photography and design. You can now take your ideas to new heights with Photoshop on the iPad. You can also draw and paint with Adobe Fresco and create 3D and AR designs. Join our global creative community and create something better together. You can unleash your creativity using desktop and mobile apps like InDesign, Photoshop, and Premiere Rush. Your Creative Cloud apps allow you to access thousands of fonts for all your projects. Create and showcase your creative work. Your Creative Cloud apps allow you to save, browse, and share assets. Your portfolio website can be customized and created. 100GB cloud storage available for file sharing and collaboration. Use tools for reviewing, sharing, and commenting to make your work easier. Video, photography, design, UI, UX and 3D, as well as social media. Creative Cloud has everything you could need, no matter where your imagination takes it.
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    Adobe After Effects Reviews
    Top Pick
    Cinematic movie titles, intros, transitions and transitions can be created. Take an object out of a clip. Make it rain or start a fire. You can animated a logo or character. After Effects is the industry-standard motion graphics software and visual effects software. You can make any idea move with After Effects. You can animated titles, credits, or lower thirds. You can start from scratch or use presets that are available directly from the app. Your text is always in motion, from swipe to slide to spin -- you can move it all. Combining images and videos can create anything you want. You can choose from hundreds of effects, remove unwanted people or objects, and create VR videos that will take your audience into the action. Keyframes and expressions can set anything in motion. Or use presets to kick-off your designs for unique results. Premiere Pro allows you to create compositions. Dynamic Link can be used to eliminate intermediate renderings between applications. Import from Photoshop and Illustrator, Character Animator and Adobe XD.
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    VideoPad Reviews

    VideoPad

    NCH Software

    $69.95/one-time/user
    3 Ratings
    VideoPad Master's Edition Windows allows you to create movies and edit videos in many formats, including avi, MP4,.3gp and.divx. The intuitive user interface makes it easy to create videos and movies. Drag and drop video clips. You can choose from more than 50 visual effects and transitions, including chroma keys or green screen technology. Fine tune color and visual effects. Send your friends a video and burn it to DVD.
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    Ignite Pro Reviews
    Are you already in a committed relationship? No problem. Ignite Pro comes with 190 professional plugins that can be used to fire up After Effects Pro, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or any other major host. You can experiment with more than 565 visual effects and presets. There are no strings attached. No arbitrary restrictions. No time limits. Ignite Pro easily plugs into Adobe After Effects or FCPX for easy editing on your Mac or computer. Each license grants you three seats, so you can use IgnitePro at home, in the studio or on the beach. Ignite Pro offers a wide range of customizable plugins. Over 565 professional visual effects are available for you to use in any project, including sci-fi short films and action movies. Looking for some drama? Add a touch of Hollywood to your short films. Plugins like Blood Spray and Gunfire, as well as Witness Protection, will make your shootout scenes look amazing.
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    V-Ray Reviews

    V-Ray

    Chaos

    $60 per month
    Artists and designers who want total creative freedom and flexibility can instantly access 15 Chaos®, products with one license. V-Ray®, Collection allows you to freely move between 3D applications. You can apply your own blend of fluid simulation, photorealistic rendering, and real-time scene exploration to any given project. You can move freely between 3D applications. You can easily share content and collaborate seamlessly with others. You can instantly access the latest releases and take advantage technology. There's no need to manage multiple versions or expiration dates. A single license is the easiest and most cost-effective way to have everything. Revolutionary designs. Moving stories. Amazing art. V-Ray can help you realize your vision. V-Ray is the industry's best 3D renderer. Create photorealistic imagery or animation. V-Ray Collection includes V-Ray to these top 3D modeling and design programs: 3ds Max. Maya. SketchUp. Rhino. Revit. Modo. Cinema 4D. Unreal. Houdini. Nuke. Blender.
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    Red Giant Complete Reviews

    Red Giant Complete

    Maxon

    $49.91 per month
    Red Giant Complete is up-to-date with all the latest features. Trapcode integrates the power of 3D particle system into After Effects. You can use particle emitters to create fire and smoke, as well as other organic visual effects. Cineware.c4d file export is available with a Red Giant subscription. You can use Cinema 4D files (including animations) in particle systems and as 3D models with After Effects. Magic Bullet is a collection of plugins that can be used to color correct, finish and enhance the look of your film. You'll be able to edit your footage with powerful real-time color grading tools and video denoising. Universe is a collection of video effects and transition plugins for editors.
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    Corel MotionStudio 3D Reviews
    Create a movie that is truly epic with 3D titles, amazing effects, and 3D animation. Corel MotionStudio 3D comes with a variety of tools to create 3D graphics, animated texts, particle effects, motion blur, and other useful effects. It has everything you need to create big-budget effects without spending a lot of money. You can tell your story your way with creative titles and text. Dynamic 3D titles can add excitement and impact to your movie using hundreds of presets. Anyone can now create 3D graphics, animations, and visual effects in real-time! In the Preview Panel, you can build and play back your 3D creations. You can add drama to your titles with realistic particle systems. These systems allow you to simulate natural elements such as fire, smoke, bubbles, snow, and other natural elements. It is easy to incorporate your 3D titles, visual effects, and 3D graphics into other video or web productions. You can export your projects in a variety formats compatible with VideoStudio®, Pro X4 or other top video-editing programs.
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    Autodesk Flame Reviews

    Autodesk Flame

    Autodesk

    $331.11 per month
    3D visual effects (VFX), color grading, and finishing software. Flame® 3D Visual Effects (VFX) and finishing software provide powerful tools for 3D composition, visual effects, editorial finishing, and 3D compositing. A creative environment that integrates all aspects of compositing allows for faster color correction, advanced graphics, and faster compositing. AI-powered tools can extract mattes from the human body, head and face using AI-powered tools for color adjustment and relighting as well as digital cosmetic and beauty work. Quickly isolate skies and important objects for grading or VFX jobs. You can edit, combine, and color correct all in one environment. For more productive client sessions, create and iterate quickly. Tools for interactive visual effects finishing and 3D composition. Flame's assistant station that is compatible and timeline-centric. Fully compatible creative assistant station for Flame. Real-time color grading software to create creative looks.
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    3ds Max Reviews

    3ds Max

    Autodesk

    $215 per month
    3ds Max is a powerful and flexible tool that allows you to create high-quality designs with complete artistic control. Create massive worlds in games. Visualize high-quality architectural renderings. Finely model interiors and objects. Animation and VFX can bring characters and features to life. The Arnold renderer is a rich experience that can handle complex characters, scenes, or effects. You can save time by using centralized creative tools to interactively mix light, color, and apply lens effects to the rendered image. With intuitive controls and an artist-friendly user interface, you can work faster. You can quickly create high-quality renders and variations and iterate faster. 3ds Max allows you to automate your workflow, which means you can spend more time on creativity. 3ds Max can be used as a compute engine for scaling content production. Accessible APIs make it easier to extend the built-in workflows.
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    Nuke Reviews

    Nuke

    Foundry

    $5,248
    Nuke has been empowering teams for over 20 years to collaborate to produce pixel-perfect results fast, without compromising creativity or quality. Nuke's flexibility, power, and robust toolset enable whole teams to create the best content with the same tools as the top studios. You can see what Nuke is being called by studios around the globe. No matter what your work style, Nuke has the tools you need to get the job done. The Nuke range offers advanced node-based compositing and 3D tracking, model building, conform, and review... all tailored to your needs. The Nuke family provides unparalleled power and performance to meet modern production needs. Nuke's node graph and resolution-independent processing mean the scope of work you can handle is unmatched. You can easily collaborate with others, no matter where you are located. Nuke's cutting-edge tools, GPU acceleration and fluid workflows make it easy to work quickly.
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    Boris FX Sapphire Reviews

    Boris FX Sapphire

    Boris FX

    $47 per month
    Sapphire plug-ins allow you to create organic looks that are unmatched by any host-based effect tools. The key features include more than 270 effects and 3000+ presets. A powerful effect and transition maker, integrated tracking and masking with academy-award winning mocha. Sapphire's superior image quality and control combined with its fast render speed offer huge time-savings. This allows creatives to concentrate on what is most important, making an impact that keeps people coming back. Sapphire 2021 Mac users will be delighted to see the introduction of Metal GPU Acceleration for more than 60 Sapphire effects. Metal acceleration in Sapphire can make a dramatic improvement in speed. S_Rays renders 4x faster than the CPU with metal. Although performance can vary depending upon GPU specs, host applications, and individual Sapphire effects such as Metal acceleration, Sapphire 2021 renders 20% faster than CPU.
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    Boris FX Silhoutte Reviews

    Boris FX Silhoutte

    Boris FX

    $94 per month
    Academy and Emmy Award-Winning VFX Tools Silhouette is a best in class, GPU-accelerated compositing tool. It delivers the industry's strongest non-destructive paints and roto tools to feature films and visual effects teams. Silhouette has been featured on many of Hollywood's most popular TV and film shows, including Avatar and Black Panther, Stranger Things, and many others. The Netflix Post Technology Alliance has officially recommended Silhouette in the VFX category. The artist's tool for Roto and Paint. Silhouette 2020.5 is more than just a roto and cleanup tool. It's a professional, stereoscopic-enabled node-based compositing platform with 146 nodes that can be used for any finishing task. Silhouette is available for macOS, Windows and Linux as a standalone application. Enterprise license options are also available. Silhouette Paint plug in now available! All Silhouette 2020 owners will receive a multi-host plug in that supports Adobe and OFX hosts.
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    Boris FX Optics Reviews

    Boris FX Optics

    Boris FX

    $7 per month
    Optics is the ultimate digital toolbox for photography. Optics was created by professional feature film VFX artist. It simulates optical camera filters, specialized lens, film stocks, grain, lens flares and optical lab processes. Optics can also be used to correct color and natural light. Optics will take your images to the next level. Optics is available as a plug-in to Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom as well as as a standalone app for macOS and Windows. Optics allows you to choose from 160 filters as well as thousands of presets. Optics has a huge selection of presets and filters that can be used to enhance and improve photos. You can color grade your image with film-style controls, or transform it into sci-fi with amazing lighting effects. You can limit all filters to a specific area of an image with simple masking controls. You can layer multiple filters and use the built-in paint system to touch-up.
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    Autodesk Smoke Reviews

    Autodesk Smoke

    Autodesk

    $215 per month
    Smoke video effects software is designed to increase productivity in production studios by combining editing workflows and node-based composition tools in a timeline-centered editor environment. You can center your creative work around a track-based, nonlinear-editor workflow that includes powerful visual FX tools. ConnectFX allows you to create complex effects directly from the timeline. Action is a combination of keying, tracking and transformation, deformation, lighting and shading tools in an interactive 3D workspace. Import 3D geometry to create dynamic 3D titles. Dynamic trimming tools allow you to easily adjust timing and navigate through the timeline. XML support has been improved to provide more accurate translations of speed changes and timeline effects. Final Cut Pro X is now interoperable with XML.
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    Boris Continuum Reviews

    Boris Continuum

    Boris FX

    $27.75 per month
    It's now easier to meet tight turnarounds. This plugin collection is the most comprehensive in the post-production industry. It includes nearly 350 creative effects, over 4000 presets, Academy Award-winning Mocha Planar tracking and masking, a beat generator that drives VFX to musical music, and an FX Browser. Artists and editors rely on continuum for their work. Continuum 2021 is the biggest release in its storied history with 80+ new effects, 1000+ new professionally-designed presets, 3 new Unit categories, major additions to particle illusion, a new keying effect, improvements to Mocha's planar tracking, and more. The Cinematographer's toolkit offers 80 new effects, 3 new Continuum units, and 1000+ presets that pay homage the old days of film shooting. The FX Editor allows you to quickly browse and create custom presets within the interface. In just one click, recreate classic Hollywood looks
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    INSYDIUM Fused Reviews

    INSYDIUM Fused

    INSYDIUM

    $188.34 per 3 months
    INSYDIUM Fusion contains all of our products and plugins in one collection. You will find everything you need to create amazing particle effects, realistic terrains, and fulfill modeling tasks right through to the final render. All our 3D resources, hours-long training, technical support, as well as content repository files, are available to you. Get your copy INSYDIUM Fusion, which includes X-Particles. This is the ultimate particle engine for Cinema 4D. TerraformFX. Mesh Tools. Cycles 4D. X-Particles, an essential tool in the artist's toolkit is a must-have. It can satisfy all your particle requirements, cloth, smoke and fire, fluids as well as grains and dynamics. Designers can seamlessly switch between motion graphics or VFX within a unified system. You can create amazing particleFX using FUI, solar systems, holograms, and abstract artwork. There are many ways to combine emitters with modifiers. This gives you many options.
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