Effects and looks

What is in it

Colour correction

36 of them: Levels, Curves, Channel Mixer, Colorama, Lumetri, Selective Colour, Shadow/Highlight, Broadcast Colors, Cineon Converter, the auto set, and Apply Color LUT.

Blur and sharpen

15: Gaussian, fast box, directional, radial, channel, compound, bilateral, smart, camera lens blur, sharpen and unsharp mask.

Distort

33: Bezier Warp with a Coons-patch interior, mesh warp, liquify, optics compensation, polar coordinates, ripple, warp, page turn, rolling shutter, corner pin, CC Tiler.

Keying and matte

20: Keylight with despill and choke, luma and colour keys, Colour Range, Color Difference Key, Extract, spill suppressor, matte and simple chokers, Set Matte, minimax.

Stylize

40: glow, the Photoshop-style shadow and bevel family, cartoon, halftone, kaleidoscope, brush strokes, vignette, burn film, add grain, dust and scratches.

Generate

33: beam, gradient ramp, four-colour gradient, fractal and turbulent noise, Fractal (Mandelbrot and Julia), lens flare, lightning, radio waves, light rays, audio spectrum and waveform, timecode, numbers, and particle generators.

Transitions

18: linear, radial, iris, grid, light, line sweep, venetian blinds, gradient wipe, card wipe, block dissolve, and the CC radial-scale, glass and image wipes.

Time

Echo, posterize-time, wide-time and force-motion-blur — routed through the time plumbing rather than the per-layer effect chain.

Perspective and channel

Bevel alpha and edges, spotlight, sphere, cylinder, 3D Glasses, and channel arithmetic.

Deep Glow, Energy Beam and Plexus

A physically based glow with a long tail; a saber-style beam along a mask path, text outline or line with twenty presets; and point-and-line networks over a point cloud, a mask path or live particles.

Layer styles

All nine of After Effects' — drop shadow, inner shadow, outer and inner glow, bevel, satin, colour and gradient overlay, stroke — plus Glass, which resolves against what is behind the layer. Keyframeable, and drawn on the GPU since 0.9.0.

Looks

34 preset stacks built on the effects, in the looks, stylize and transitions folders: Teal & Orange, Bleach Bypass, Faded Film, Cross Process, Anamorphic Bokeh, Comic Book and a set of transitions.

On-canvas handles

Distort centres and other effect controls are draggable in the viewport, not just in the inspector.

Mask-scoped effects

An effect can be scoped to a mask region rather than the whole layer, and faded or mask-scoped effects stay on the GPU.

Speed

In 0.9.0 all 393 effect benchmark cases run above 24 fps in the project's own benchmark. That measures this engine against its earlier self, not against other software.

Third-party effectsLimited

Native C++ plugins can add effects to the engine; see Plugins. They are not listed in the Effects browser yet.