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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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/).

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.

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

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

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.

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 .

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 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

　　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.