Open Source Special Effects Software

An application for capturing images to generate timelapse videos, built on gPhoto2 and wxWidgets libraries.

Veejay is a visual instrument and real-time video sampler. It allows you to "play" the video like you would play a piano. While playing, you can record the resulting video directly to disk (video sampling).

Money$hot (M$) is a realtime video special effects/switcher program for people with more than one webcam. M$ uses DirectShow on WinXP/Vista as a compositing engine. M$ can capture, composite, transform (using FreeFrame, etc.), and stream.

A simple Green Screen app for mac, unfinished, need help from person who knows Cocoa/Objective-C

maestream is a serie of abstractions, to make more easily the use of PureData for multimedia purposes. maestream is recommended for Pd-extended users

The UHAPI4Linux project is working on an open source implementation of UHAPI: 1. Provide development platform on PC for application and middleware 2. Demonstrate UHAPI concepts 3. Bootstrap developers with UHAPI

This is a simple but powerful bash script to create stop motion and time-lapse videos from an Internet URL or an attached video device (see examples). Simply point it at an image source, set the capture frequency, and starting recording stillframes. You can view your stillframes as a video, or convert to a true video format at any point. Bad frames can be browsed/removed with the operating system file browser.