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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! -
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EffectCraft
An open-source motion graphics and compositing tool
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. -
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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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Natron
Open source, cross-platform compositing software
Natron is an open-source, cross-platform nodal compositing software. -
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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.
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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.
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Snowmix
Video mixer for mixing live and recorded video and audio feeds
New version 0.5.2.3 Released October 17th 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. Free support in the discussion forum. See Snowmix in action on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/Snowmix4video -
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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. -
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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. -
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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.
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ScopeShapes uses the left and right sound outputs of your computer to control the X- and Y- axes of an oscilloscope in order to generate 2D and 3D shapes. It reads AutoCAD-format ASCII .dxf files, and runs on Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X.
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TransPlayer
An Advanced Video Player
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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).
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openfx-arena
Extra OpenFX plugins for Natron/Nuke/Resolve
Extra OpenFX plugins for Natron/Nuke/Resolve. -
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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/). -
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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 -
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TripLight
psychedelic visual synthesizer color-organ style
psychedelic visual synthesizer color-organ style; also available as a Freeframe plugin! -
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This application can be used for comparing images with video or live camera/ip camera stream. It is a useful tool for face comparison and other (forensic) side by side image comparisons. This application is developed by the Netherlands Forensic Institute
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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 -
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Ivolution
Timelapse creation using Face Recognition
Ivolution is a face timelapse generator. Feed it with a bunch of images and it will generate a movie with your face centered on the screen. Ivolution uses face detection and modifies the images so that your face always keeps the same size and location over the movie. Images are processed in chronological order, so that you can see your face evoluate over time ! -
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VOLPE
Video OverLay Producer and Editor, professional overlay techniques
Latest release: 1.01 (20-Mar-2020) Overlay videos and image sequences with: *Logos *Other videos or image sequences *EXIF data (date, time, exposure…) *KML data (speed, heading) *Text (titles, subtitles, with a variety of intro and outro effects) Easy control of: *Position, blend mode *Font, weight, size, color, opacity, shadow Requires: *PHP >= 7.3, with Imagick and Mysqli *JQuery with UI, Paperjs for VOLPE, spectrum *Exiftool, Ffmpeg Packaged modules: * LTMagic * Font System Manager currently with support for 200+ fonts/490+ variants Examples of complete sequences processed by VOLPE: https://youtu.be/YsYDMeOHVHo (3-Apr-20) https://youtu.be/uGUC9rd6qHQ (6-Nov-19) https://youtu.be/XI0x1lFq7xQ (2-Sep-19) https://youtu.be/uNtytSYeThw (17-Jul-19) If you use VOLPE to produce video, you may use the logo, and let us know where the video is hosted. Left to its own devices, VOLPE will not overlay obtrusive advertising from me or anyone else. -
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Video Stabiliser using OpenCV
Using a HD camera to generate stabilised video stream.
This project is written and tested on a MacBook Pro, but the main.c file should be generic for any platform. It shows how easy it is to make a video stabiliser and overlay text information. This is a reference design, not a product. -
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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.
