Makaron

Makaron: Open-Source After Effects Alternative

Makaron offers video compositing, 2D/3D animations, motion graphics design, and visual effects with a node-based workflow, an open-source alternative to Adobe After Effects for motion graphics and visual effects.

What is Makaron?

Makaron is an open-source, cross-platform alternative to Adobe After Effects used primarily for creating motion graphics and visual effects. It is designed to provide powerful tools and an intuitive workflow to help artists, designers, and compositors bring their creative visions to life.

Some key features and capabilities of Makaron include:

• Node-based compositing workflow - Build up complex effects by connecting different nodes such as generators, filters, transformations, color correction, etc.
• Hundreds of effects and filters - Choose from a large collection of ready-made effects or create your own using the node editor or Python scripting.
• 2D and 3D animation tools - Animate text, graphics shapes, or import 3D models. Supports features like bones, inverse kinematics, deformers and more.
• Motion graphics templates - Easily animate graphics and text directly on the node editor timeline.
• Video editing capabilities - Trim, split, crop, rotate and stitch video clips together.
• Powerful color correction tools - Primary and secondary color correction nodes for precision color grading.
• Support for images, video, audio, vectors, and mattes - Allows for multilayer composites of different media types.
• Rotoscoping tools - Manually create masks and mattes on footage frame-by-frame.

With its rich toolset modeled on industry leading software, active development community, cross-platform availability, and fact that it is completely free and open-source, Makaron provides an appealing option for motion graphics artists and compositors at any scale or budget.

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