Video compositing with Natron
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Although traditional video editing programs allow you to trim footage and arrange everything into a pleasing whole, compositing applications such as Natron can help you create effects in postproduction on clips. Multiple effects can easily be connected and selected in a series through the user interface.
With a compositing application, using green-screen or news casting effects is little more than a few clicks away.
Considerable Control
Development of the free and open source Natron program began in mid-2013 at the French institute for scientific research (INRIA), which provided the necessary start-up funding [2]. In December, the project director, Alexandre Gauthier, won the INRIA "Boost Your Code" competition, which allowed him to work on Natron full time for 12 months.
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