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 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 Google Maps or GeoTIFF, TIFF files. The routes can be drawn manually or imported from a GPX file.

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.

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).

Drempels Desktop Enhancer and Psychedelic Wallpaper

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

Stuka is a small piece of software dedicated to batch some video editing process. It was notably done to edit a bunch of video files related to studio recording sessions, in order to sync them to a timeline sequenced audio file and to display them into a particular layout of viewports. Stuka works with a script file which describes mainly the output file configuration, a list of input video files with synching orders and image adjustments and a list of timeline markers to set up the layout. Stuka works with a script file which describes mainly the output file configuration, a list of input video files with synching orders and image adjustments and a list of timeline markers to set up the layout. Stuka also provides a specific panel to help with real-time video adjustments, like color balance, brightness, contrast, saturation ans noise reduction.

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.

Extra OpenFX plugins for Natron/Nuke/Resolve.

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

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.

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.

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

The goal of this project is to create a fast generator of a volumetric fire animation. The generator uses a short precomputed sequence to produce an endless animation. Packages real-time-fire2.0 and higher contain additionally a heat haze.

edje2yuv is a simple command line tool that exports arbitrary Edje animations to YUV4MPEG streams (YUV420P, YUV422P, YUV411P, YUV444P, MONO) and to raw RGBA for further usage in e.g. films or presentations. Edje is a complex graphical design & layout library based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) allowing extremely flexible dynamic layouts and animations. YUV4MPEG streams is a intermediary raw video format widely used in pipes of video conversion tools such as ffmpeg, mencoder, mjpeg-tools and should easily be readable by any video editor.

resonance chung is a free gpl open source VST plugin variable dynamic reverb sound effect compatible with VST steinberg, fb_chungVST , midipiano_chung , freemp3_chung , dsp_chung , radio _chung music plugins support. It aims to simulate the increase of reverberation with the number of played notes like in a real acoustic piano . a quick fft small fourier transform is used to estimate a number of played notes and modify the reverb rate in real time. Is written in easy fast freebasic .

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.