Natron For Mac

Natron is a comprehensive nodal compositing software, designed to make it easy for you to combine and edit different graphical elements for creating complex visual effects.

Designed with both artists and professional video developers in mind, Natron proposes an open source alternative to other, more expensive, visual effects editors and designers currently on the market.

The best thing about Natron is the fact that it bundles a plethora of visual editing capabilities. Moreover. because it's build upon the OpenColorIO library which takes care of color processing, you can easily adjust parameters like saturation, contrast, gamma, offset, shadows, mid-tones, highlights, as well as perform basic image editing tasks such as cropping, resizing, and applying noise reduction.

Another important tool that helps you with the processing tasks is the CurveEditor that enables you to animate your visual effects by accurately managing keyframes. The NodeGraph is also worth mentioning, while it helps you to organize your processing tasks and to get a better overview for the project at hand.

Natron comes with support for various file formats such as EXR, DPX, TIFF, JPG, PNG, and many more. If its collection of features does not satisfy your needs, Natron can be easily customized with the help of a wide array of supported OpenFX plugins.

While Natron’s interface is clearly not its strong point, getting to grips with the application shouldn’t be very hard since it offers a well-organized environment with all important features well placed within your reach.

It is quite clear that Natron is a powerful node-based compositing tool that uses a performance-oriented multi-threaded rendering engine and a large collection of editing tools to deliver results good enough for amateur and professional video production oriented users.