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“its amazing really the app is super optimized and you really cant go wrong with it its free open source and is basically ae what more would you want”
The free, open-sourceAfter Effects alternative.
Keyframes, a graph editor, 2D and 3D layers, and the shortcuts you already know. A native C++ engine renders it on your GPU.
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- Free, no watermark
- Open source, AGPL-3.0
- Windows, macOS and Linux
- Opens .aep projects
Make a video for Premation, in Premation.
The top 10 get 1 year of Premation Pro free. Enter by Nov 30, 2026.
- 1Make a video for PremationA launch film or any video about it.
- 2Build it in PremationMade anywhere else, it doesn't count.
- 3Post it in our DiscordVideo link + a screenshot of your timeline.
Click a subject. Put your title behind it.
New in 1.1: Object Matte separates a person or product in one click, hair and fingers included. Every frame below was finished in Premation.
Move
Text behind subjectA title set behind a dancer mid-leap: her arm, hair and shirt pass in front of the letters.
Made in Premation 1.1. The source photos were generated for this showcase; the cut-outs, type, blur and grades were done in the editor.
Built for the whole shot
Animation, 3D, type, rigging, vector and particles. Every picture in this tour is the running editor.
- 01 / 06
Keyframe anything, then shape the curve
Set keyframes on anything with a number in it, then shape how it moves. The graph editor gives every pair of keyframes real bezier handles, position splits into independent X and Y tracks, and expressions take over where keyframes are the wrong tool.
- Graph editor
- Keyframe assistants
- Expressions
- Motion sketch
- 02 / 06
Flat layers in real 3D space
Give a flat layer depth, then light it and film it. This is After Effects' Classic 3D model: Z position and X/Y rotation, one- and two-node cameras with depth of field, lights that cast shadows, and bevelled extrusion for shapes and text.
- 03 / 06
Text that animates letter by letter
Animate a headline one letter at a time — each glyph fading, sliding or rotating on its own schedule. It is the full After Effects animator model: range and wiggly selectors, per-character 3D, text on a mask path, and 18 presets to start from.
- 04 / 06
Rig flat artwork and pose it
Put a skeleton inside flat artwork and pose it like a puppet. Biped and quadruped presets build bones, IK chains and controllers in one step; switch IK and FK without losing the pose, and paint per-vertex weights straight onto the mesh.
- Auto-rig presets
- IK/FK switching
- Controllers
- Weight painting
- 05 / 06
Vector paths with real operators
Draw vector artwork and animate it without leaving the timeline. Pen, pencil, pressure brush and curvature tools, plus stackable operators — trim paths, booleans, offset, twist, zig-zag, repeaters — with tapered strokes and animating dashes.
- 06 / 06
Particles you can re-render
Sparks, rain, confetti — particles that render the same way every time. Rate, lifetime, velocity, gravity and turbulence are solved from the frame time, so the same seed always produces the same field and a re-render matches the first exactly.
The panels you animate in
A graph editor, GPU effects, per-character type and a real 3D camera. Each one below works.
Graph EditorPosition · Value graph
cubic-bezier(0.33, 0, 0.67, 1)
Position595.2, 540.0
Effects & Presets275 effects
Search effects and presets
Text — Animator 1Per character
Range Selector 1
Start100 %
Position0.0, 22.0
Opacity8 %
Blur4.0
Composition — Active CameraCamera 1 · 50 mm · Y -28.0°
DEPTH
Shape the speed, not just the keys. Pick an ease and the layer below rides the same curve the graph draws.
All featuresAsk Claude or ChatGPT. Watch it build in Premation.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Antigravity from Dashboard ▸ Connections, then ask for motion graphics in a chat. It makes real layers, keyframes and effects in the project you have open.
You, in ClaudeIn Premation, make a 10-second logo reveal for NOVA with a glow.
Premation — HomeClaude
ClaudeClaude connected just now
Nothing yet. Send the prompt above and watch Claude work.
New in 1.0. A recreation of the editor’s activity panel; step names are the ones the app shows. Press send.
- You watch every change, and you can stop it
- Each step shows in the editor as it happens. Stop throws away whatever it was in the middle of.
- One request, one undo
- A request lands as a single step in Edit ▸ Undo, named for what it did. Edit while it works and your edit stays yours.
- It asks before it touches your disk
- Importing files and rendering video wait for you to click Allow.
- Free, and on your computer
- Free on every plan. The assistant reaches Premation through a private local connection, and only Premation's editing tools are offered to it.
The files you already ship
Open an After Effects project. Export the formats a production already uses.
Export8
- MP4 · H.264Delivery file
- MOV · ProRes 444416-bit, with alpha
- WebM · VP9Transparent web video
- HDR10 · HLG10-bit HEVC, BT.2020
- Lottie JSONVector animation for apps
- PNG · EXR sequenceFrame-by-frame passes
- GIF · WAVShort loops, sound
- EDL · OTIO · FCPXML · ALEEditorial hand-off
Open5
- After Effects .aep · .aepxCompositions, keyframes, masks, text
- SVGStatic and animated
- Lottie JSONComes in as editable layers
- glTF models3D layers
- Video, image, audioFrame-accurate seeking
Your After Effects hands already know this. Comps, precomps, parenting, mattes and Classic 3D keep their names, and V, W, Y, G, U and F9 do what you expect.
Premation and After Effects, comparedWatch it built
The newest tutorials from the Premation channel, newest first.
What’s new
Premation reached 1.0 and is still shipping every week or two. The latest releases, from the repository’s tags, and what the native engine measured when it arrived.
- 1.1.0Latest
Cut people and objects out of footage with Object Matte, import Photoshop, Illustrator and PDF files, and play heavy compositions about twice as fast.
- Object Matte: click a person or object to separate it, track it through the shot, put text behind it, blur or replace the background, and fill the gap it leaves from the frames where the background shows.
- Photoshop files import as a composition of their layers, PDF and Illustrator files as vector footage, EXR stays float, and JSON or CSV data can be read from expressions. ProRes, DNx and MXF footage is no longer transcoded to 8-bit.
- The Render Queue writes several outputs from one render, adds DNxHR, HEVC, AV1 and TIFF and DPX sequences, and has post-render actions and render-settings templates.
- Playback builds frames on more than one core, so a composition with thousands of layers plays about twice as fast before it is cached. Scrubbing answers at once, and the viewer says when it is still rendering or dropping frames.
- A Display P3 working space with HDR and camera-log footage, Blend Colors Using 1.0 Gamma as in After Effects, a keyframeable box behind text, and copy, paste and mirror for skeleton poses.
- Help ▸ Report a Problem sends a screenshot and safe diagnostics, checkout opens in your browser, Check for Updates shows what changed, and plugins can draw their own Effect Controls and dock their panels as tabs.
Keyframes behave the way After Effects users expect: smooth Auto Bezier, eases on the right side of the key, and a graph editor that no longer blinks while you drag.
After Effects-style expressions and scripts, an Essential Graphics panel, the interface in three more languages, and projects with non-English file names open again.
The native engine, since 0.9
- Editor, Electron and React
- premation-engine, Native C++ process
- GPU, Direct3D 12 · Metal
Everything you see, play and export is drawn by a native C++ engine in its own process; the editor is its interface. If the engine stops, the editor keeps running, restarts it and replays your work.
| Case | Now | Before |
|---|---|---|
| Layer-styles composition, viewport | 30 fps, steady | was 19 fps |
| Inner Shadow, 1080p layer | 3 ms | was about 1 s per frame |
| Stroke, 1080p layer | about 1 ms | was 0.8 s per frame |
Quoted from the 0.9.0 release notes, measured on the project’s own benchmark compositions. Your hardware and projects will differ. How the engine is built
Plugins in 1.0: native SDK 1.2 plugins can add menu commands, panels, importers, export formats, presets and on-canvas handles, and they run in the engine. The JavaScript and WGSL plugin system removed in 0.9.0 stays removed; projects that used it still open, and its effects are kept and pass the picture through, with one notice naming them.
The editor is free. Cloud gives you more to make with.
Every tool and every export is in the free app. You pay only if you want the premium Library, Premation's own plugins, and projects we host for you.
Prices in US dollars.
Premation
For learning, personal work and anyone who keeps projects on their own disk.
Freeforever
No trial clock and no watermark, for good.
Included
- The whole editorCompositions, graph editor, 3D layers, rigging, particles and every effect.
- Every export, no watermarkUnlimited local projects, rendered to every format.
- 5 cloud projectsWith 7 days of version history.
- Free Library items and every free plugin
- AssistantsConnect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Antigravity. The in-app assistant runs on your own provider key.
- Open source, AGPL-3.0A build from source needs no account.
Over 5 cloud projects, the extra ones turn read-only — never deleted, and export always works.
Premation CloudRecommended
For people who ship motion often and want to start from more than a blank comp.
$7.50/ month
Billed $90 once a year. That is $7.50 a month instead of $9.
7 days free, then $90 a year. Start it from Settings → Billing in the app; cancel before the trial ends and you pay nothing.
Everything in Premation, plus
- The full Library, 114 premium itemsPremium templates, Lottie animations, transitions and sound effects that drop into a project as editable layers.
- Premation pluginsOur own effects and tools, included as they ship. They run on your computer.
- Unlimited cloud projectsOpen the same project on every computer you work on.
- 90 days of version historyGo back to last month's cut, not only last week's (7 days on Free).
If you cancel, you keep Cloud to the end of the period you paid for. After that every project still opens and exports on Free.
- 7-day free trial
- Cancel anytime
- Projects never deleted
- Export always works on Free
- Payments by Lemon Squeezy
What people are making with it
4.6 out of 5 across 7 reviews from people using Premation on real work.
its to good some time crash this app
this app is so crazy but try to do free for at least 3 month
Like it! Keep doing it. F Adobe. Power to the people)
确实很强
上限上比ae还差一口气，因为差在生态 插件这些，其他几乎已经大差不差甚至局部超越，挺厉害的
tracker
improve the planar tracker more user friendly
i reallllly appricate their developer and i request you to keep adding things and make it more better i lovve it but the thing i am having problem is toturial this is new and tthere is nothings about premation but i will test each things by myslef and be a advnace vidor editor of premation all i want to say lastly plz make keyfarming place more easily so we can do it faster any way i really love it and i am waiiting for updates and plz never let such a great things paid.
i like it but the like lags and popularity need work
Before you download
What people ask before they install it.
Yes. Premation is 100% free and open-source under the GNU AGPL v3.0. The desktop motion graphics editor runs on your own machine and every feature of the editor itself is free; Premation Cloud adds hosting and Premation's own plugins. The installers use a free sign-in for the optional cloud; a build from the source has no accounts and never contacts our servers. Projects are stored as open .motion files on your disk.
Yes. Premation is designed as a fast, native desktop After Effects alternative for motion design and animation. It adopts AE's Classic 3D layer model, timeline keyframing, bezier graph editor, all 38 blend modes, track mattes, nulls, adjustment layers, and standard keyboard shortcuts (V, W, Y, G, Q, U, F9), making switching seamless.
Yes. Connect Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT desktop or Codex, Cursor or Antigravity from Dashboard > Connections, then ask it for motion graphics in a chat. It builds and edits real layers, keyframes and effects in the project you have open; you watch every change, you can stop it, and each request is one undo step. It asks before importing files or rendering. The connection is local to your computer and free on every plan.
Premation needs a GPU that supports Direct3D 12 on Windows 10 and 11, or Metal on macOS 13 and later (Apple silicon or Intel). The engine drives the GPU natively, and there is no software rasteriser.
Premation exports 18 formats, including MP4 (H.264), WebM (VP9 with alpha), MOV (16-bit ProRes 4444 with alpha), HDR10 and HLG, Lottie JSON, PNG, JPEG and EXR sequences, GIF, WAV, and EDL, OTIO, FCPXML and ALE for editorial hand-off. Exports run in the same engine as the viewport and are deterministic.
No. Since 1.0.1 every installer ships the ffmpeg that MP4, WebM, GIF and ProRes exports use, so there is nothing to install. If export ever cannot run it, Premation says why in plain words and offers Fix video export, a one-click repair. PNG and image sequences, still frames and Lottie never needed it.
More questions6
- What is new in 1.0?
- Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Antigravity can work in the project you have open, free on every plan. Native plugins can now add menu commands, panels, importers, export formats, presets and on-canvas handles. Sixty more After Effects effects (215 to 275), faster 3D and playback, and every installer now ships the ffmpeg that video export uses. Since 0.9 everything is drawn by a native C++ engine in its own process.
- What happened to plugins?
- Plugins are native (C++ SDK) and, since 1.0, far more than effects: they can add menu commands, panels, importers, export formats, presets and on-canvas handles. Third-party plugins are free; Premation's own plugins, starting with a 3D model renderer, come with Premation Cloud. The older JavaScript and WGSL plugin system was removed in 0.9; projects that used it still open.
- Is Premation ready for real motion design work?
- Yes. Premation is used for production motion design. The current release is 1.1.0, and it is covered by thousands of automated tests and a pixel-level render test harness to ensure rendering reliability across complex compositions, vector paths, and 2.5D cameras.
- Can I import vector artwork, SVG, and Lottie into Premation?
- Yes. Static SVGs import as vector layers; animated SVGs (CSS/SMIL) are converted into editable keyframe tracks. Lottie JSON animations import as editable tracks. Premation also supports raster images, videos (with frame-accurate seeking), and audio tracks.
- How does Premation handle 4K footage and complex motion graphics?
- Via automatic background proxy generation. Premation transcodes low-resolution stand-ins for smooth viewport playback without blocking editing. When rendering the final export, the engine automatically uses full 4K source assets.
- Is the AI motion assistant required or charged with credits?
- No. The in-app assistant is optional and bring-your-own-key (Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini), with no added credit fees. You can also connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Antigravity on any plan, Free included, and use the subscription you already have. Either way every change lands on the normal undo stack (Cmd+Z / Ctrl+Z).
Download Premation
The free, open-source motion editor for Windows, macOS and Linux. One installer, a free sign-in, no subscription. Version 1.1.0, stable.
For your macOS computer, Apple silicon · Intel.
The file
- Version
- 1.1.1
- Released
- Apple silicon
- Premation-macOS-arm64.dmg
- Size
- 290 MB
- SHA-256
- Intel
- Premation-macOS-x64.dmg
- Size
- 302 MB
- SHA-256
- Includes
- ffmpeg for video export
Other platforms
Windows
Windows 10 and 11 · x64
Premation-Setup-Windows.exe285 MBDownloadLinux
x64 · AppImage
Premation-Linux-x86_64.AppImage372 MBDownload
Every build is published on GitHub Releases, alongside the source it was built from.
System requirements
A native engine renders every frame on your GPU, through Direct3D 12 on Windows and Metal on macOS.
Full system requirements- Graphics Processor
- Dedicated GPU (NVIDIA/AMD) or Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4)The engine drives the GPU natively through Dawn: Direct3D 12 on Windows, Metal on macOS. There is no software rasteriser.
- Integrated Graphics
- Intel Iris Xe / AMD Radeon Graphics with current driversFine for lighter compositions. Heavy effect stacks and high resolutions are where a dedicated GPU pays off.
- System Memory
- 8GB RAM minimum / 16GB+ recommendedMemory scales with composition resolution and cached pre-comps. Export is the exception: frames stream to disk one at a time, so peak export memory is one frame rather than the whole render.
- Operating system
- Windows 10 / 11 x64, macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon & Intel), Linux x64 (AppImage)The editor is an Electron desktop app; rendering runs in a separate native engine process. The installers include the ffmpeg that video export uses. Building from source needs Node.js plus the native toolchain (clang, CMake, Ninja, vcpkg).
Opening it the first time
macOS blocks apps from unidentified developers, so the first open needs the right-click menu. Once, per copy of the app.
Drag Premation to Applications
Open the .dmg and drag it across. Take Premation-macOS-arm64.dmg on Apple silicon and Premation-macOS-x64.dmg on Intel. The arm64 build will not run on an Intel Mac at all.
Right-click it, then choose Open
Not a double-click. Control-click or right-click the app in Applications. The right-click route adds an Open button that a double-click does not offer.
Confirm Open in the dialog
That is the whole workaround. macOS remembers the decision for that copy, so normal double-clicking works from then on.
Both platforms only ask because the installers are not code-signed yet. Signing removes the step on each, and no reinstall is needed when it lands. Setup and updates guide