

Additionally most effects now ship with several presets built in. There's a new preset management system-each effect can now store presets in a drop down.

There are a ton of other tweaks like panel trees staying where you last left them when switching composite shots, new fractal noise types, sphere effect now reacts to scene lighting, etc. If you have two monitors you'll love dual monitor support. If you get into comps with dozens of layers or effects the new filters in Controls and the Layers panels make it a lot faster to find things-I got a Hitfilm Pro 2017 beta during editing of my Ghostbusters Go! short, and just this one new feature made it SO MUCH EASIER to tune all of my multi-segment proton streams. If you record audio external to your camera the new audio synch tools are a massive timesaver.

If you work with a lot of different audio tracks, the new audio mixer is a blessing. If you do a lot of mograph and text work, Neon Path is one of your new best friends. If you ever have to prepare footage for actual TV broadcast, Scopes are a must-and since Hitfilm renders mp4 to 16-35 levels and YouTube expects everything in 16-35 then expands to 0-255, Scopes makes it easy to tune final output for optimal YouTube playback. If you do a lot of 3D model/particle work the new Depth Matte features give you the auto occlusion of 3D unrolled but the ability to add effects directly to layers still-that's a game changer that makes a workaround technique I've used since Hitfilm 3 obsolete. In some ways in depends what you're doing. In this thread I pretty much list all the differences between 4 Express and Pro 2017, but I think I flagged everything new. You could go from 4GB to 16 or 32GB and have a lot left over for editing. Well, any system will try to take advantage of RAM, but the biggest concrete benefit is RAM preview.
