Natron
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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...
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- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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Alexandre Gauthier-Foichat and INRIA Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
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Powerful and open source !
The program crashes out with no good reason too often. Very unstable, at least on a Windows system.
Unfortunately no release since 2022. The project seems to be in severe need of contributors.
I tried to use with a 4K monitor, Plasma 6, Wayland, but this app is written in the ancient QT 4.8, and it did not support scaling. It doesn't work with
QT_SCALE_FACTOR, and there is no in-built scaling setting. There is a font size setting, and I tried setting a bigger font to make it somewhat usable, but still things like icons or drop-down buttons were too small, so I gave it up using it.Would love it if it works, I can’t even open it I tried uninstalling and restarting it I even reset my entire computer and yet it still doesn’t work, I hope they fix it, i hope it’s not because of not having a powerful computer, cause I’m tried of upgrading
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.
I sooo hope they keep this project alive and kicking! Apparently they're looking for a new project maintainer.