Natron (software)
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| Original author(s) | Alexandre Gauthier, Frédéric Devernay |
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| Initial release | October 22, 2014 |
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2.2.6 / March 31, 2017
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| Repository | github |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++, Python, Qt |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X |
| Type | Node-based compositing software |
| License | GNU General Public License version 2 or later |
| Website | http://natron.fr/ |
Natron is a free and open-source node-based compositing software. It has been influenced by digital compositing software such as Nuke, from which its user interface and many of its concepts are derived.
Natron supports plugins following the OpenFX 1.4 API. Most open-source and commercial OpenFX plug-ins are supported.
Natron is named after Lake Natron in Tanzania which, according to Natron lead programmer Alexandre Gauthier provides "natural visual effects" by preserving its dead animals.
Natron was started by Alexandre Gauthier in June 2012 as a personal project. The project was the winner of the 2013 Boost Your Code contest by Inria. The prize was a 12-month employment contract to develop Natron as a free and open-source software within the institute.
The first widely available public release was 0.92 (05.06.2014), which brought rotoscoping and chroma keying functionalities. Subsequent beta releases brought additional features such as motion blur, color management through OpenColorIO, and video tracking.
Version 1.0 was released on 22.12.2014, together with a large sample project by François "CoyHot" Grassard, a professional computer graphics artist and teacher, demonstrating that Natron could execute interactively graphs with more than 100 nodes. In January 2015, the Art and Technology of Image (ATI) department in Paris 8 University announced that they would switch to professional-quality free and open-source software for teaching computer graphics to students and artists, including Blender, Krita and Natron.
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