[HN Gopher] Open Source Compositing Software for VFX and Motion ...
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Open Source Compositing Software for VFX and Motion Graphics
Author : marcodiego
Score : 90 points
Date : 2022-03-14 12:57 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (natrongithub.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (natrongithub.github.io)
| skratlo wrote:
| I recently tried Natron. I work on Linux/wayland. It was
| constantly crashing on me, I rebooted to Windows and tried the
| Windows version, it was crashing, and it was getting stuck a lot.
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| IMO Blender can do the same job and do it better.
| themerone wrote:
| Unfortionately, in a failed attempt to commercialize Natron, the
| original developers relicensed from Apache to GPL.
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| I think this killed the chances of any big studios or companies
| getting involved with development.
|
| Blender relicened it's renderer Cycles to Apache to encourage
| commercial adoption. I think Natron should have stuck to this
| approach.
| riotnrrd wrote:
| You're probably correct. GPL is (unreasonably) radioactive to
| many companies.
| blihp wrote:
| IIRC, it was the lead developer who implemented the original
| prototype in his own time who decided the license, not the
| Blender project. I don't think Cycles was ever GPL as it was
| developed as a standalone project that could be integrated into
| Blender rather than an integrated renderer that was split out.
| FrostKiwi wrote:
| First time hearing about this, though the similarity to Nuke is
| uncanny. I'm happy to see OpenFX getting treated as a first class
| citizen and not be relegated to be the unwanted child of a bigger
| compositor.
|
| Definetly gonna try it out.
| pzone wrote:
| It's a free Nuke clone. The similarity is intentional!
| royjacobs wrote:
| This has been posted a few times now, and while it definitely
| looks very cool I've not yet heard of people actually doing
| significant work with it (compared to other open source
| alternatives such as, say, Blender). Curious to hear about
| people's experiences with it.
| ReleaseCandidat wrote:
| Still planar tracking only (no motion tracking/solving), so no
| alternative to Blender (and every other 'real' 3D Compositor).
| CyberDildonics wrote:
| The last time I tried it, it was so unstable that it was beyond
| unusable.
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| It wouldn't stay open for more than half a minute even if you
| did nothing.
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| If you did anything it was an instant crash. I'm not sure how
| anyone calls something like that a 'release' version. I'm not
| sure I've ever even left software in that state, let alone
| committed it and let alone actually letting other people run
| it.
| Joeboy wrote:
| It's frustrating that AFAIK the FLOSS choices are Blender
| (compositor is robust but has severe limitations and is really,
| really slow) and Natron (more featureful and faster but crashes
| if you look at it wrong).
|
| Davinci Resolve has Fusion built in, which is good and runs on
| Linux but it isn't FLOSS and I think has some limitations in the
| free version.
| formerly_proven wrote:
| AFAIK the only limitation on Fusion in Resolve is that
| resolution is limited to Ultra HD (no DCI 4K), just like in the
| rest of the free Resolve version.
| e_y_ wrote:
| There's also some nodes that only work on the paid version
| (or add a watermark if you try to use them) and there might
| be restrictions on using OpenFX plugins.
|
| IMO, Resolve Studio is pretty reasonably priced considering
| that version upgrades have been free for many years (unlike
| Adobe and others which cost hundreds annually), but it's not
| FOSS and there's still people for which a $300 one-time
| purchase might be too much.
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