Open Source C++ Special Effects Software

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.

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.

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

New version 0.5.2.1 Released December 29th 2025. 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 and/or Python 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. Video input and outputs can be done through GStreamer pipelines or the GStreamer shmsrc/shmsink API. Supported for Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Alma, CentOS, Fedora, Rocky, Mageia, Manjaro, MX Linux, OpenSUSE, EndeavourOS and macOS/OS X. Free support in the discussion forum. See Snowmix in action on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/Snowmix4video

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).

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

Drempels Desktop Enhancer and Psychedelic Wallpaper

Money$hot (M$) is a realtime video special effects/switcher program for people with more than one webcam. M$ uses DirectShow on WinXP/Vista as a compositing engine. M$ can capture, composite, transform (using FreeFrame, etc.), and stream.

NyuFX is an advanced tool for creating karaoke effects in subtitle format ASS. With the power of scripting language Lua with an extended environment + an user interface it's easy to create fancy 2D effects.

This program provides means for a multimedia player for multimedia content (e.g., videos) with sensory effects based on the MPEG-V: Media Context and Control standard, especially Part 3: Sensory Information (ISO/IEC 23005-3).

psychedelic visual synthesizer color-organ style; also available as a Freeframe plugin!

Extra OpenFX plugins for Natron/Nuke/Resolve.

Programa de composición digital de imágenes a partir de nodos. Similar a Fusion-Nuke-Inferno. -- Image compositing software throw nodes. Fusion-Nuke-Inferno like.

A Computer vision tracking filter for Avisynth. Allows cropping to follow Object of interest. You can watch a small demo at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ-JtJs7US0

CinePlug is a collection of audio and video plugins for cinelerra

CthughaNix is the reincarnation of Cthugha-L, a Linux port of one of the first audio visualization software packages, known as "An Oscilloscope On Acid".

DVDMake is a software to author DVD Menus and arrange tracks

Delta Compositor is a High end movie compositing and special effects package. It is in very early development. A script-based version is now available. A GUI is currently in planning and development.

A 3D application geared towards 3D compositing for visual effects.

ExpLabo is now an avisynth plugin: ExpSat permits to apply a non-linear transformation of image saturation, Colorize change the image color dominance in a flexible manner

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.

Allow PC users to see image of the movies (\'virtual screen\') and 3D games at far distance (that mean bigger size of objects !). For realtime 3D applications (games) it allow even to determine relative distance between objects without using keyboard

Video stabilization tool with unlimited manual control for best results. Freeware, no Installer, no Spyware, no Watermark! Filters can be set independent for horizontal, vertical-axis and the rotation . Download from http://www.audiovideoit.eu/video-stabilization-en.html

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.