Open Source Linux Special Effects Software

EffectCraft is an open-source motion graphics and visual-effects compositor written from scratch in Rust as a clean-room reimplementation of familiar After Effects workflows. Projects combine footage, shapes, text, solids, nested compositions, adjustment layers, cameras, and lights on animated timelines. Its keyframe system supports multiple interpolation modes, easing, velocity controls, and graph editing. The application includes more than 300 effects across color, blur, distortion, keying, simulation, perspective, audio, transitions, and other categories. Classic 3D layers, cameras, lighting, shadows, expressions, layer styles, and a render queue are also supported. Lottie import and export, readable JSON project files, CLI commands, JSON control, and MCP automation extend the workflow beyond the desktop UI. It runs on major desktop platforms and in modern browsers but remains an actively developing young project.

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.

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

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.

New version 0.5.2.2 Released May 15th 2026. 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, EndeavourOS, Fedora, Mageia, Manjaro, MX Linux, OpenSUSE, RHEL, Rocky 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.

The SMSH plugins is a set of nodes and functions designed to smooth out some of the bumps in your everyday work with Shake.

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.

Java application for creating Morphing videos. You can create a Morphing effect with your chosen pictures. 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 More about it at this web site: https://www.frojasg1.com:8443/downloads_web/web/html/morphing.html?origin=sourceforge

Webcam viewer/capture program similar to the Photobooth program in Mac OS X. Written in python using GStreamer with EffectTV plugins, you can view your webcam and take pictures filtered through your choice of effects.

This program provides means for simulating 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). NOTE: SESim will not be developed any further as it is now integrated in the Sensory Effect Video Annotation (SEVino) tool: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevino/

Extra OpenFX plugins for Natron/Nuke/Resolve.

urmusic is a free and open-source software that allows you to easily create your own music visualizer and create a music video for it! It makes use of hardware acceleration to render frames as fast as possible. Donations: Support me on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/nasso

AVSPP -- Avisynth Preprocessor is a tool for preprocessing Avisynth scripts, allowing script writers to integrate PHP with Avisynth scripts. It allows access to remote images and videos, loops, and other functionality that is easily accomplished in PHP.

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 python demo with connected bezier curves and a supplied background image.

HCI for audiovisual live performance exploiting physical computing. Transform your standard musical instrument - electric bass, guitar, violin, piano etc - in an augmented tool, an audiovideo controller without exploiting any specific ext. hardware.

　　CaptionHidder is designed to hide the caption of movie files when they are being played, in order to promote users' listening comprehension. The software is capable for Linux.

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".

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.

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.