Open Source Special Effects Software

OpenShot Video Editor is a powerful yet very simple and easy-to-use video editor that delivers high quality video editing and animation solutions. OpenShot offers a myriad of features and capabilities, including powerful curve-based Key frame animations, 3D animated titles and effects, slow motion and time effects, audio mixing and editing, and so much more. It’s available for Linux, Mac and Windows, with a very simple and friendly interface. Start creating stunning videos quickly and easily with OpenShot!

Route Generator is a tool to create or generate animated routes on a map and generate a movie from it. This movie can be imported in your video editing software (e.g. Pinnacle Studio), so you can add it to your own movies. The map can be imported from OpenStreetMap, Google Maps or GeoTIFF, TIFF files. The routes can be drawn manually or imported from a GPX file containing GPS tracks.

PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of your pictures in just 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the video. There are several output possibilities for VCD, SVCD, DVD up to FULL-HD. Creates animated slideshows.

Natron is an open-source, cross-platform nodal compositing software.

VisualSubSync is a subtitle program using audio waveform representation as its cornerstone. SRT and SSA/ASS subtitle formats are supported. It also provides some tools to help improving the quality of your subtitle.

New version 0.5.1.1 Released July 2020. Snowmix is a Swiss army knife tool for mixing live and recorded video and audio feeds. It supports 2D and 3D clipping, scaling and transparent overlay of video, png graphics and text. It supports animation of video, images and texts through native commands changing scale, placement, transparency and rotation. Animation and actions can also be controlled through native scripting and an embedded Tcl interpreter. Snowmix is designed for control over low bandwidth links and can work as a standalone CLI based program. Control over both CLI and a TCP connections. Input and outputs can be done through GStreamer pipelines or the GStreamer shmsrc/shmsink API. Supported for Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Chakra, Mageia, Manjaro,, OpenSUSE and macOS/OS X is supported. Free support in the discussion forum. See Snowmix in action on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/Snowmix4video

Create your vintage and realistic VHS videos from the 1980's, 1990's and 2000's with any of your videos using a special conversion utility for Microsoft Windows.

Extra OpenFX plugins for Natron/Nuke/Resolve.

An application for capturing images to generate timelapse videos, built on gPhoto2 and wxWidgets libraries.

Veejay is a visual instrument and real-time video sampler. It allows you to "play" the video like you would play a piano. While playing, you can record the resulting video directly to disk (video sampling).

EnKoDeur-Mixeur (EKD) is an open source software which makes videos, pictures and audio post-production. It can be also used to convert videos in many formats. It is written in python and use the PyQt4 bindings.

Primarily this program is intended to help 3d artists. It's an extension to 3d programs who have no capability to produce proper text effects (e.g. Blender) But you can also present your holiday videos and photos in a real professional way.

dvd-homevideo is a project that I developed because take quite a bit of home video and I was looking for a simple, quick way to transform the video on my dv camcorder into a fully functional DVD including a menu with optional background image and music.

A library of 40+ picture effects (blur, sharpen, invert, and much more) for the REALbasic programming language. Language: REALbasic, Cross Platform

dsve (originally named "RePix 2005") was started to create an image & movie 3D (anaglyph) creator program. Currently it's changed to a DirectShow Filter (.ax) to view all Your movies realtime with many effects.

Drempels Desktop Enhancer and Psychedelic Wallpaper

FFRend is a Renderer for FreeFrame plugins. It allows you to chain any number of plugins together, automate their parameters using oscillators, and record the output to a video file. The input is a video, still image, or source plugin. Complex signal routing including feedback is supported. Each plugin potentially runs on its own core, and multiple cores can be assigned to a single plugin.

Java application for creating Morphing videos. You can create a Morphing effect with your chosen pictures. 1-Choose the master image. 2-Detect and select the faces in each image. 2-Create the triangle mesh. 3-Put the vertices in the right places on every image. Then you will be able to see the morphing result and save the Morphing project in a xml file. You will have the option of creating a video with the Morphing effect of your project. An example of video created with the application: https://frojasg1.com:8443/resource_counter/resourceCounter?operation=countAndForward&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffrojasg1.com%2Fdemos%2Faplicaciones%2Fmorphing%2Fv1.1_morphingEditor.MorphingVideo1.mp4%3Forigin%3Dsourceforge&origin=web You can also see a demo: https://frojasg1.com:8443/resource_counter/resourceCounter?operation=countAndForward&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffrojasg1.com%2Fdemos%2Faplicaciones%2Fmorphing%2Fv1.1_morphingEditor.Project1FromScratch.mp4%3Forigin%3Dsourceforge&origin=web

met_3deLensDistort: A 3D Equalizer Lens Warp Plug-in for Shake

ScopeShapes uses the left and right sound outputs of your computer to control the X- and Y- axes of an oscilloscope in order to generate 2D and 3D shapes. It reads AutoCAD-format ASCII .dxf files, and runs on Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X.

GLIP-Lib is an OpenGL image processing library written in C++. It features all the necessary tools to quickly build texture filters and pipelines and operate them on the GPU.

Image-In is a C++ based image processing and analysis application. It works on images, videos and cameras. Target is to help you to develop and test new algorithms via add-ons. Chains of filters can be arranged to achieve intelligent systems.

Ivolution is a face timelapse generator. Feed it with a bunch of images and it will generate a movie with your face centered on the screen. Ivolution uses face detection and modifies the images so that your face always keeps the same size and location over the movie. Images are processed in chronological order, so that you can see your face evoluate over time !

VLC Lyric Control (VLyriC) is a light-weight utility built to work with VLC 2.0.8 in order to display and control live text overlay(s) on top of a video feed or file that is being played by the instance of VLC that VLyriC is connected to. This is accomplished by utilizing VLC’s “Remote Control” (rc) extra interface, and Marquee display module. VLyriC is geared towards individuals who need to broadcast a live video feed of a large meeting or conference (primarily LDS Stake Conferences), and include a text overlay to display names/titles of those speaking and/or lyrics of songs to be sung during the meeting or conference. VLyriC depends on the .NET Framework 4 (either the Client Profile or Full frameworks are OK), and has been run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. This project is based on the original VLyriC written by Charles Boling (http://ebs.boling.us/apps/vlyric/).

ViDBuG is a visual editor for AVISynth scripts. It can be used to edit videos by combining filters. A key strength is that ViDBuG will show frames from each step of the process to give the user a quick overview of the processing steps.