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).

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

Extra OpenFX plugins for Natron/Nuke/Resolve.

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

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.

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/).

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

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.

Drempels Desktop Enhancer and Psychedelic Wallpaper

This is a program to easily convert tempos from a song into either exact time lengths or conformed frame rates to make syncing music to help video easier.

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.

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.

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.

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.