Open Source Special Effects 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.

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.

An application for capturing images to generate timelapse videos, built on gPhoto2 and wxWidgets libraries.

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

FFRend is a Renderer for FreeFrame plugins. It allows you to chain any number of plugins together, automate their parameters using oscillators, and record the output to a video file. The input is a video, still image, or source plugin. Complex signal routing including feedback is supported. Each plugin potentially runs on its own core, and multiple cores can be assigned to a single plugin.

Java application for creating Morphing videos. You can create a Morphing effect with your chosen pictures. 1-Choose the master image. 2-Detect and select the faces in each image. 2-Create the triangle mesh. 3-Put the vertices in the right places on every image. 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

VLC Lyric Control (VLyriC) is a light-weight utility built to work with VLC 2.0.8 in order to display and control live text overlay(s) on top of a video feed or file that is being played by the instance of VLC that VLyriC is connected to. This is accomplished by utilizing VLC’s “Remote Control” (rc) extra interface, and Marquee display module. VLyriC is geared towards individuals who need to broadcast a live video feed of a large meeting or conference (primarily LDS Stake Conferences), and include a text overlay to display names/titles of those speaking and/or lyrics of songs to be sung during the meeting or conference. VLyriC depends on the .NET Framework 4 (either the Client Profile or Full frameworks are OK), and has been run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. This project is based on the original VLyriC written by Charles Boling (http://ebs.boling.us/apps/vlyric/).

NyuFX is an advanced tool for creating karaoke effects in subtitle format ASS. With the power of scripting language Lua with an extended environment + an user interface it's easy to create fancy 2D effects.

Drempels Desktop Enhancer and Psychedelic Wallpaper

A 3D application geared towards 3D compositing for visual effects.

EnKoDeur-Mixeur (EKD) is an open source software which makes videos, pictures and audio post-production. It can be also used to convert videos in many formats. It is written in python and use the PyQt4 bindings.

This is a video editor for compositing and special effects.This editor is designed to create special effects and animations. But for editing video sequences, and basic effects as well. This editor is done so that all (or almost all) the effects can be animated. This project was not abandoned, but it is temporally inactive, will be reactivated soon.

Image-In is a C++ based image processing and analysis application. It works on images, videos and cameras. Target is to help you to develop and test new algorithms via add-ons. Chains of filters can be arranged to achieve intelligent systems.

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

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

Software for Live 2D/3D animations in WebTV like professional broardcasts inserts, charts, ...

This application can be used for comparing images with video or live camera/ip camera stream. It is a useful tool for face comparison and other (forensic) side by side image comparisons. This application is developed by the Netherlands Forensic Institute

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.

VJ software featuring effect editor and a live performance tool. Coded in C# using DirectX for graphics presentation.

ScopeShapes uses the left and right sound outputs of your computer to control the X- and Y- axes of an oscilloscope in order to generate 2D and 3D shapes. It reads AutoCAD-format ASCII .dxf files, and runs on Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X.

Primarily this program is intended to help 3d artists. It's an extension to 3d programs who have no capability to produce proper text effects (e.g. Blender) But you can also present your holiday videos and photos in a real professional way.

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

The UHAPI4Linux project is working on an open source implementation of UHAPI: 1. Provide development platform on PC for application and middleware 2. Demonstrate UHAPI concepts 3. Bootstrap developers with UHAPI