Open Source Linux 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

theGrindHouse is a frame based film or image filter rendering engine. A filter chain is constructed from available filters then applied to each frame. Written in C with GTK+2.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The goal of this project is to create a fast generator of a volumetric fire animation. The generator uses a short precomputed sequence to produce an endless animation. Packages real-time-fire2.0 and higher contain additionally a heat haze.

Library for calculating fields of view and lighting on low resolution rasters, suitable for roguelike games.

Draw some track-segments as bezier-curves on top of a map-image. Run svgAnim.rb-script to generate a vido-clip witch shows the track animated from 0% to 100% visibility

A digital animation tool for real-time generation and interpretation of images, video and visual effects, allowing the artist/operator to adjust, on the fly, the parameters of the effects according to his or her own sensibility.