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    OpenShot Video Editor

    OpenShot Video Editor

    Award-Winning Open Source Video Editing 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!
    Downloads: 113 This Week
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    Route Generator
    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.
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    Downloads: 227 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 35 This Week
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    Natron

    Natron

    Open source, cross-platform compositing software

    Natron is an open-source, cross-platform nodal compositing software.
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    Downloads: 119 This Week
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    Snowmix

    Snowmix

    Video mixer for mixing live and recorded video and audio feeds

    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
    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    PhotoFilmStrip
    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.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    Realistic VHS Video Converter

    Realistic VHS Video Converter

    Convert any High-Quality and modern videos into realistic VHS videos

    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.
    Downloads: 32 This Week
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    VLC Lyric Control (VLyriC)

    VLC Lyric Control (VLyriC)

    Control live text overlay(s) over a live video feed or file using VLC.

    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/).
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    An application for capturing images to generate timelapse videos, built on gPhoto2 and wxWidgets libraries.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    FFRend

    FFRend

    Parallel-processing renderer for Freeframe V1 video effect plugins

    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.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    EnKoDeur-Mixeur
    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.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    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
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    A library of 40+ picture effects (blur, sharpen, invert, and much more) for the REALbasic programming language. Language: REALbasic, Cross Platform
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Morphing Editor

    Morphing Editor

    Java application for creating Morphing videos

    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
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Stuka

    music video creator for studio recording sessions

    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.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    TripLight

    TripLight

    psychedelic visual synthesizer color-organ style

    psychedelic visual synthesizer color-organ style; also available as a Freeframe plugin!
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    openfx-arena

    openfx-arena

    Extra OpenFX plugins for Natron/Nuke/Resolve

    Extra OpenFX plugins for Natron/Nuke/Resolve.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    veejay
    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).
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    urmusic5

    The Free and Open Source Music Visualizer Tool

    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
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Programa de composición digital de imágenes a partir de nodos. Similar a Fusion-Nuke-Inferno. -- Image compositing software throw nodes. Fusion-Nuke-Inferno like.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    A python demo with connected bezier curves and a supplied background image.
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    C::NTR::L
    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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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      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.
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    CinePlug is a collection of audio and video plugins for cinelerra
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