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.

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 0.5.1.1 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.

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!

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).

An application for capturing images to generate timelapse videos, built on gPhoto2 and wxWidgets libraries.

Kaltura’s Open Source Video Platform for media management, creation, remix and collaboration. The development has moved to it's new home at - http://kaltura.org. Visit http://kaltura.org for the latest updates, community discussions, downloads and

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

Drempels Desktop Enhancer and Psychedelic Wallpaper

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 !

Render is a program for creating composite BMP image sequences. These images are composited as specified in a text configuration file. Mixer is a program for mixing film soundtracks. It accepts input files in WAV format and outputs a mixed soundtrack in WAV format. Each input channel can contain one or more audio files that are edited and mixed using a cue sheet. The maximum number of channels is a compile-time parameter.

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/).

The software pack for ICC/ICM color transform for captured or realtime (live) video data. Uses Argyll CMS for automatic profile creating (using standard IT8 target or custom generated). VirtualDub plugin and DirectShow filter.

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.

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.

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

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_

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

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.