Is there any good open source rotoscoping application?
As far as I got, Blender's features for masks are very good, but then they fall short when you want to tweak the animation curve for animated masks because, well, there are no curves... it's all linear, they just won't appear in the graph editor.
So I was wondering if there is some other application that does that, be it specialised or not, maybe specialised for compositing would be a plus actually, considering all the video editing features that are left in the dust by Blender, because I assume the big players don't care for them and rather fund for the development of all the 3D capabilities, which I care about very little for what I usually do, so I'm not seeing any improvements on that side anytime soon
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How important is it that it's open source?
Divinci Resolve has always been top notch, and free.
While optimally, I use open source where I can, pragmatically - I use closed source when necessary. There are just simply no good open source alternatives for things like Solidworks, etc.
Blender is one of the few applications that I would say doesn't really have any 1:1 comparison. You can do VFX, 3D, Video Editing, Compositing, etc all without leaving Blender - I don't think there's anything that quite compares.
Not necessarily super important, I've known about Resolve for a long while now, but always tried to stay away from it due to the issues some people talk about when using it on Linux, maybe I'll try and judge myself though. I think the hardest thing is to get it installed, on Fedora at least
I use it regularly on Linux. Feel free to message me if you're having issues.
If you're not using decklink output for SDI to a ref monitor, it's probably best to use davincibox since resolve is specifically developed for Rocky Linux 8.
https://github.com/zelikos/davincibox
That's a really cool project, didn't know about it!
Don't know what decklink and all that are, so I guess I can safely go with that XD
Thanks for the help, I'll ask again if I need
Natron. I've never tried using it, I use Fusion via Resolve.
I've considered it, I think I'll try it at some point, but sadly it looks like development has almost stalled on it, it's not too bad as long as it works for what I need of course, but it does mean that it will probably die out completely sooner or later and any pain points I might find will never have a resolution
There's also a stand alone version of fusion, but sadly compositing is a neglected sector of foss software.
Yeah, it's a pity really
Natron, resolve and blender all three are good options.
About Blender, have found ways to overcome its shortcomings?
Not yet I think. Natron is also a slow developing app. Davinci is one of the best option now which is free. For blender the tutorials are there and the community is strong. So the use case may be not easy but you will get support throughout. Which is good.