Open Source Mac 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!

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 0.5.2.1 Released December 29th 2025. 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 and/or Python 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. Video input and outputs can be done through GStreamer pipelines or the GStreamer shmsrc/shmsink API. Supported for Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Alma, CentOS, Fedora, Rocky, Mageia, Manjaro, MX Linux, OpenSUSE, EndeavourOS and macOS/OS X. Free support in the discussion forum. See Snowmix in action on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/Snowmix4video

A library of 40+ picture effects (blur, sharpen, invert, and much more) for the REALbasic programming language. Language: REALbasic, Cross Platform

Extra OpenFX plugins for Natron/Nuke/Resolve.

Java application for creating Morphing videos. You can create a Morphing effect with your chosen pictures. Then you will be able to see the morphing result and save the Morphing project in a xml file. You will have the option of creating a video with the Morphing effect of your project. An example of video created with the application: https://frojasg1.com:8443/resource_counter/resourceCounter?operation=countAndForward&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffrojasg1.com%2Fdemos%2Faplicaciones%2Fmorphing%2Fv1.1_morphingEditor.MorphingVideo1.mp4%3Forigin%3Dsourceforge&origin=web You can also see a demo: https://frojasg1.com:8443/resource_counter/resourceCounter?operation=countAndForward&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffrojasg1.com%2Fdemos%2Faplicaciones%2Fmorphing%2Fv1.1_morphingEditor.Project1FromScratch.mp4%3Forigin%3Dsourceforge&origin=web More about it at this web site: https://www.frojasg1.com:8443/downloads_web/web/html/morphing.html?origin=sourceforge

psychedelic visual synthesizer color-organ style; also available as a Freeframe plugin!

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.

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.

El Zoido Apps brings couple of useful applications from various fields. El Zoido Render Farm is a lightweight 2d render farm. El Zoido Control is a flexible home control system.

ExpLabo is now an avisynth plugin: ExpSat permits to apply a non-linear transformation of image saturation, Colorize change the image color dominance in a flexible manner

GLIP-Lib is an OpenGL image processing library written in C++. It features all the necessary tools to quickly build texture filters and pipelines and operate them on the GPU.

A simple Green Screen app for mac, unfinished, need help from person who knows Cocoa/Objective-C

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 !

JAnalogTV is a Java port of analogtv from Xscreensaver. It is a library that emulates an old analog TV in software.

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

maestream is a serie of abstractions, to make more easily the use of PureData for multimedia purposes. maestream is recommended for Pd-extended users

Videos generation from java code

Webcam viewer/capture program similar to the Photobooth program in Mac OS X. Written in python using GStreamer with EffectTV plugins, you can view your webcam and take pictures filtered through your choice of effects.

QC Player Plus is a simple Quartz Composer composition player. It takes the Apple-supplied "QC Player" example project, improves the rendering pipeline and adds the features you need for it to be useful in a live context.

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.

The SMSH plugins is a set of nodes and functions designed to smooth out some of the bumps in your everyday work with Shake.