OpenSource Natron 1.0

[pluMmet]

http://natron.inria.fr/

All the essentials for professional-quality VFX work
In its 1.0 release, Natron provides the essential tools for professional-quality compositing, including tracking, rotoscoping, a curve editor, and a command-line tool for rendering projects on a renderfarm.

It provides a 32-bit floating-point linear pipeline, and supports the industry-standard OpenColorIO colour-management and OpenImageIO file import/export frameworks.

It also supports OpenFX plugins – which include the key commercial tools like GenArts’ Sapphire and The Foundry’s software, and Mikros Image’s free TuttleOFX suite of tools.

The obvious missing functionality (deep compositing, rotopainting) is in the roadmap, with Python support and optical flow tools planned for the 1.1 release.

Easy migration path to Nuke
Natron’s UI and workflow are designed to be Nuke-like, making it easy for anyone trained on the software to switch to Nuke, and system requirements are low: 3GB RAM, an OpenGL 2.0 GPU, and any modern CPU.

Altogether, it’s shaping up to be a very promising tool, particularly for students or freelancers who can’t afford to learn on commercial software – the recent free editions of Nuke or Fusion 7 notwithstanding.

[kiwimation]

Your going to have to think they will struggle now you can get a free version of Fusion. I was keen on Natron but cant see the need now.

[Bullit]

Does free Fusion support OpenFX plugs?

[kiwimation]

No it dosnt. But the free fusion is pretty powerful.

[Pooby]

I must admit, my enthusiasm for Natron dropped off the radar the moment Fusion became Blackmagicked but hopefully they will make it worthwhile by adding functionality missing from the free Fusion such as the mentioned optical flow tools.

[Draise]

I liked the idea of it. I tried a previous version of it - but.. wasn't used to the tools - or didn't have enough of the gimmicks I liked to use, but the new ones look good!

[Hirazi Blue]

Well, I really hope that I'm mistaken, but I can't seem to find any proper documentation on this.
If there really isn't any I for one won't be joining in the fun.
Developers should not release badly (or even un)documented full-point releases,
even if the software at hand is generously open sourced...

[pezetko]

Must agree about none of the documentation.
At least pdf user manual and scripting api manual should be done before full 1.0 release.
Hope they made it soon. The time of learning by trying undocumented features are passed away. And their excuse it's "same" like the Nuke is at least dubious.

But I will keep it on the radar, that nuke copycat looks at least a little bit useful.

[Bullit]

Some videos

Sky removal


Rotoscopes