Natron
Advanced open-source node graph-based digital compositing software.
What is 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.
Natron information
- Developed byAlexandre Gauthier-Foichat and INRIA
- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.3
- Alternatives20 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 3,441 Stars
- 260 Forks
- 220 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Video Editor
- VFX
- video-post-production
- cinema
- Video Compositing
- glsl-nodes
- Motion Graphics
- compositing
Powerful and open source !
I sooo hope they keep this project alive and kicking! Apparently they're looking for a new project maintainer.
The program crashes out with no good reason too often. Very unstable, at least on a Windows system.
It's a pretty robust software in many respects. HOWEVER, it doesn't support sound, which is the Achilles Heel right now. You cannot sync visuals to audio without a convoluted, cumbersome work-around so if sound syncing is important, then this fails badly. But I heard they're working on sound (As of July 2022). So hopefully one day I can actually switch over to Natron. A POSITIVE for After Effects veterans is that there are several views like "Dopesheet" (which Nuke has too) which feels slightly more akin to After Effects if you're used to that, but you do have to get use to the nodal workflow first.
Seems intimidating but actually easy to use after watching a couple of basic tutorials (concepts are simple, graph is actually easier than some menu based software). A good surprise