User Guide

Natron is an open source video compositing and special effects software for Windows, macOS and Linux.

This guide will help you getting started using Natron for compositing and visual effects.

• What is compositing?
  • Theory
  • Practice
• Getting started
  • About
    • Features
    • FAQ
  • Installation
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
  • Environment
    • Toolbar, menu bar, and context menus
    • Using the toolbar
    • Working with nodes
    • Navigating inside the node graph
    • Properties panels
    • Using the color controls
    • Using node presets
    • Animating parameters
    • Compositing viewers
    • Using the file browser
    • Undoing and redoing
    • Progress bars
  • Troubleshooting
    • Identifying the Kind of Bug
    • Searching and Reporting Bugs
    • Common Workarounds
    • OpenGL/GPU Rendering Issues
• Compositing
  • Managing Projects
    • Project setup (empty)
    • Proxy Mode (empty)
    • Loading images and video (empty)
    • Image caching (empty)
    • Frame ranges
  • Reformatting elements (empty)
  • Channels (empty)
  • Merging images (empty)
  • Noise removal (empty)
  • Keying (empty)
  • Using Rotopaint (empty)
  • Tracking and stabilizing
    • Workflow Summary
    • Detailed Usage
  • Transforming elements (empty)
  • Working with color (empty)
  • Stereoscopic compositing
    • Importing stereoscopic sequences
    • Joining separate views
    • Exporting stereoscopic sequences
    • Writing to separate files
  • Preview and rendering (empty)
  • Expressions (empty)
• Tutorials
  • Writing documentation
    • Natron Manual
    • Plugins Manual
  • HSVTool
    • Brightness adjustment ranges
    • HSVTool Keyer
  • FFmpeg (empty)
    • Producing digital intermediates (empty)
    • Muxing audio (empty)
    • Encoding HEVC (empty)
  • Using PanoTools projects within Natron
    • Creating a PanoTools (pto) project
    • Using Hugin/PanoTools parameters in Natron
    • Building the panorama in Natron
    • Future work
  • Vector graphics workflow
    • Inkscape
    • Natron
  • Alternative Matte Extraction Tutorial
    • Despill and Color Suppression Pipeline