Natron Alternatives and Similar Software

Blender

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

• We can use Blender for compositing too. Bollado • Jul 2015 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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Adobe Premiere Pro

Edit video faster than ever before with the powerful, more connected Adobe Premiere® Pro CC. Dozens of brand-new features include a redesigned timeline, improved media management, and streamlined color grading. Sync your settings and shortcuts to any computer in any edit bay in the world and get access to new features the moment they're released. Your entire creative world, together in one place.

• Natron isn't full-featured non-linear video editor, its functionality can't be used in this way like Premier do. M_O_Z_G • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

Camtasia Studio

Produce videos for the web using the industry-leading H.264 format. No tweaks or technospeak, just sparkling HD-quality video with compact file sizes...every single time. Two existing production presets (blog and web) and three new presets (YouTube, HD display, and Screencast.com) take advantage of the new format. Create eye-catching training, presentation and demo videos…the easy way. Camtasia screen recording software is streamlined, intuitive and makes you look like a pro.

Commercial Mac Windows

Adobe After Effects

With Adobe After Effects software, you can create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with flexible tools that help save you time and deliver unparalleled creative power. It's used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production and its main uses are the origination of 2D and 2.5D animation, visual effects compositing and finishing (image adjustment, color correction etc.).

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

FXhome HitFilm

HitFilm merges FXHome VisionLab Studio , FXHome Effectslab and FXHome CompositeLab into one software. HitFilm is a layer-based editing and compositing package. HitFilm Ultimate gives you blockbuster quality visual effects and compositing at an indie price. You have full control to create your own unique effects using cutting edge technology.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

NUKE

NUKE is a powerful compositing application that delivers unparalleled speed, an efficient multi-channel scanline rendering engine, and a first-class feature set that is unrivalled in the desktop market. If you are in the business of creating high-quality digital images Nuke is a production proven visual effects tool that brings speed, functionality and flexibility to your VFX pipeline.

• Natron has basically copied the layout of NUKE! Guest • Oct 2017 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

Blackmagic Design Fusion

Blackmagic Fusion (formerly known as Fusion and eyeon Fusion) is an image compositing software program created by eyeon Software Inc, now developed by Blackmagic Design. It is typically used to create visual effects and digital compositing for movies, TV-series and commercials. It employs a node-based interface in which complex processes are built up by connecting a flowchart or schematic of many nodes, each of which represents a simpler process, such as a blur or color correction.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux

Apple Motion

Motion is a compositing application used to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects. Motion is now included in the Final Cut Pro X video post-production suite. Designed for video editors, Motion 5 lets you customize Final Cut Pro titles, transitions, and effects. Or create your own dazzling animations in 2D or 3D space, with real-time feedback as you work.

Commercial Mac

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.

Free Open Source Mac Linux

Hitfilm Express

Free video-editing and video-composition software in one, with the option of buying fx-packs.

Free Mac Windows

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.

• 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.

Free Open Source Windows

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.

• 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.

Free Open Source Linux

Autodesk Smoke

Autodesk® Smoke® software is a leader in editorial finishing for high-quality commercial and broadcast projects. Smoke offers an end-to-end finishing toolset that combines intuitive timeline navigation with advanced 3D finishing tools. Native support for industry-standard media formats and GPU-accelerated interactivity when compositing means you can finish projects faster and deliver your best work even against tight deadlines.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

Easy Video Maker

It's easy to Create, Make a high quality 2D or 3D video/movie with cool special effects from various formats of video clips, images, audios, lyrics, texts, etc. Videos/Movies can be mass produced. Just need to create one project, then you can always starting to make videos/movies quickly from the same project. Optimize the creation video for the format of your choice, YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, MOV, ASF, iPhone, iPad, Android Phone/Tab, etc.

Freemium Windows

Shotbrander

Shotbrander.com is an online curated video-library, where users without prior technical knowledge can customize shots and create premium quality branded video content for their businesses within minutes.

Freemium $ $ $ Web

PixelConduit

PixelConduit is a realtime video and graphics compositing tool that's... Fast. Render in realtime even above HD resolutions. Thanks to the optimizing Conduit Effect System, you can combine dozens of full-quality effects such as keyers, blurs and tone curves while still editing live. Precise. Conduit always works in floating-point color (128-bit RGBA), so you never have to worry about color artifacts like clipping or banding again. Affordable.

• Discontinued Based on the support forum being removed, the blog no longer being available, the release of all formerly paid features as a free upgrade, the developer now working at Facebook, and seeming lack of any social media presence in the past 6 years...it looks like this may have been discontinued.

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