Open Source Adobe After Effects Alternatives

Alternatives to Adobe After Effects for all platforms with Open Source License

Blender

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

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Compositor 3D Sculpting Keyframe animation 3d sketching ... Motion tracking Real time rendering Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Animations Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Grease Pencil HD-Rendering Intuitive Nodes Lightweight Low memory usage Non linear editor Parametric Modeling Physically-Based Rendering Portable Powerful render engine Procedural Texturing Realistic viewport Scripting Texturing UI customization Video overlay Add a feature

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- Yeah, you can edit videos with it... But it's not made for it in specific and isn't it's main purpose. It has lots of purposes. Guest • Dec 2015 • 14 agrees and 2 disagrees
- AE's main purpose: Video effect editing. Blender has a whole range of possibilities, but it's hard to get into and it's not designed to be used solely for video effect editing. danielmichel • Nov 2017 • 14 agrees and 4 disagrees
- It clearly doesn't look like after effects and has a pretty steep learning curve, but it can do anything that after effects can do. Guest • Jan 2016 • 11 agrees and 6 disagrees
- Mostly because its free. But not just that, it can do much more than just video composting. For me its a win-win. Plus, did I mention it is way lighter than AE and open source? Guest • Mar 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It may have a very different UI, and be 3d instead of 2d, HOWEVER it's still good for doing similar things if you can't afford After Effects. (Armature can replace puppet pin, you can choose to import images under User Preferences, etc.) Guest • Jun 2018
- Blender is made for animation; After Effects is primarily made and advertised to combine animation with camerawork, not as a standalone animation creator. You can edit video on Blender, but it is sort of a loophole and very difficult to get started with. Guest • Aug 2018
- Blender is not typically used for editing and compositing videos, although it has some functionality in such Guest • Sep 2018
- after effects is for animation and effects.. blender is a 3d modeling / animation program Guest • Jul 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It's a multi-purpose software with capability to things that After Effects can do, like adding special effects. It is free and best video editing software for linux. Guest • Feb 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It can be used as an alternative to After Effects, and is more powerful since it is a full 3D graphics software. Guest • Jan 2016 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Blender is mainly a 3d modeling application. After effects is focused on motion graphics, video editing and compositing. Guest • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Blender is a 3D modelling & game engine tool; different field. Guest • Sep 2017 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees
- blender is modeling and animations, after effects is video editing Guest • Nov 2017 • 0 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Blender is a 3D editor. After Effects is a video editor. Blender has a video editor and effects but no video editing. After Effects edits videos and adds effects. Guest • Oct 2017 • 1 agrees and 6 disagrees
- After Effects is a VFX and MoGrahp software (focusing compositing, masking...), while Blender is a 3D computer graphics software (focusing modeling, rendering...). Guest • Jan 2016 • 2 agrees and 8 disagrees
Natron

Natron is an open source, cross platform nodal compositing application. It is built around industry standard open source tech such as OpenFX, OpenEXR, OpenColorIO and OpenImageIO. The feature set includes realtime playback/RAM cache, multi-threaded rendering, 2d tracking, rotoscoping, grading, animation via f-curves and 3rd party OpenFX plugin support. All contained within a familiar, intuitive interface with an XML based project file format.

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- Awful documentation (blank page); The versions change so much that the old tutorials don't help at all; Difficult to learn by just messing around; High learning curve. Guest • Aug 2017 • 10 agrees and 5 disagrees
- A Node based approach for not only vector and raster image processing and animation but also for OpenGL effects and shader authoring. Also supports OFX. Mainly targeted for VFX compositing. fahadhasanpathik • Jan 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Its simple (when you get the arrangement) but still very powerful, easily works with Blender and its free!! Guest • Apr 2017 • 6 agrees and 12 disagrees
ButtleOFX

ButtleOFX is a simple, user-friendly and open source compositing software. It is based on TuttleOFX, an open source, modular and sustainable image processing architecture. ButtleOFX allows you to easily create special effects for your photos and videos thanks to its features.

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- Discontinued as evidenced by their github page, the team is no longer developing it any further. They are looking for a maintainer. The last commit is over a year old.
Snowmix

Snowmix is a video mixer tool for mixing live and recorded video and audio feeds. It supports 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.

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Liconcomp

Liconcomp can compose videos, text, and camera images live and play them back in real time. It's perfect for the playback of content on large screens, LED walls, scrolling LED displays, LED perimeter systems, and screens in custom formats. Liconcomp can combine different content like videos or tickers and output them to the screen. Control is based on scripts, that is, your programmer can customize the software to your exact needs.

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- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 1.2.2, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Dead Deer

Dead Deer is a 3D modeler, 3D game maker, and a 3D demo maker designed to create games. The scripting language allows you to code interactions in pseudo-C with the animation and synthesizes your rendering with your shaders. Dead Deer has support for Direct3D9 and ShaderModel3, Direct3D10 and ShaderModel4, Direct3D11 and ShaderModel5, OpenGL and GLSL, GLES and GLES20, and METAL for OSX and iOS.

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