Open source alternatives to After Effects
One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what After Effects does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What After Effects does
- Motion graphics and animated titlescore
- Keyframe animation on a timelinecore
- Visual effects and compositingcore
- Masks, tracking and rotoscoping
- Effects and plugin ecosystem
- Expressions for procedural animation
- Render and export video
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 motionityBrowser-based motion graphics editor for animated videos |
Covers one part65% | 4.2k+4 | None | Too few | Runs in a browser | MIT | |
Covers 2 of 3 core jobs. Partly: Visual effects and compositing; Masks, tracking and rotoscoping. Not shown: Effects and plugin ecosystem; Expressions for procedural animation.See the evidence
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