Are you a?

• YouTuber that wants to create animations for his videos?
• A Public Relations experts who wants to make an ad?
• You want to do motion graphics?

Up until now, the industry standard (and expensive) After Effects had no contestant. There are similar open source programs.

• Like Friction, which has a really good UI but terrible Code.
• Or Glaxnimate, which has beautiful code but terrible UI

Here arrives Advanced Effects, what aims to be the After Effects killer. A good-looking open-source animation software that couldn't be possible without Friction, Glaxnimate, and MuseScore!

• 🪥 Clean and easy-to-grasp codebase (or I try to)
• 🔮 Good looking

• 💻 A Minimal App that shows a window.
• 🧭 With a Complex Navigation System.
• 🎨 That shows an OpenGL canvas with Skia2D.
• 📁 That can open and save project files.
• 🟦 Where you can drag objects around.
• 🚄 And animate them.
• 🎥 And render that to a video file.

This piece of software wouldn't be available without the sustained hard work and research of the authors of Friction, Glaxnimate, and MuseScore. If you are honest, you should not resell copies of this software. More details on how GNU GPL v2 works: https://choosealicense.com/

YOU came here looking for a free SVG animation alternative to propietary software. Do something good for the rest :)

The idea of developing this was born out of frustration with Friction's codebase and Glaxnimate's poor UI.

I recommend using Qt Creator to run this software as it does most things for you.

You can't install Qt through the system manager because in Ubuntu only Qt 6.4 is distributed and 6.9 is required to run this.

• CMake and Ninja
• C++17 compiler
• Qt 6.9+ with QtQuick 2
• FFmpeg (libav)
• Skia

If you don't want to use Qt Creator, here's how to run the software:

1. Clone or download the repository: git clone https://github.com/Advanced-Effects/Advanced-Effects.git.

2. Open a terminal and enter the directory where the repository is located: cd /path/to/Advanced-Effects.

3. Setup the build environment: by getting a C++17 compiler like gcc, CMake, and Ninja.

4. Get the dependencies: by getting the Muse's framework dependencies, OpenGL and glfw3, FFmpeg, KF5 framework, and Qt 6.9.1

5. Create a build directory where the project's output files will be by executing mkdir build and then go into it using cd build.

6. Finally, compile the project by setting up the CMake environment cmake .. and compiling the project cmake --build .

✅ If everything has gone right, you now have a Debug version of the application in <your project directory>/build/src/app/AdvancedEffects

• The UI is inspired on After Effects and, mostly, MuseScore.
• The codebase is inspired on Akira and Glaxnimate.
• Experience was gained contributing to Friction/enve2d.
• The template used is: https://github.com/emericg/QmlAppTemplate

Thanks to all who made this possible ❤️ (rodlie, MaurycyLiebner, Alecadd, MuseScore team, emericg) and the Friction community.

Set these environment variables to inspect the application:

• QML_IMPORT_TRACE: When set to 'ON', shows the QML Engine log when importing modules (is a Qt environment variable).
• APP_LIST_QRT: When set to '1', prints the Qt Resource Tree (src/application/main.cpp)
• -DAPP_LIST_QUI: When set to 'ON' (cmake .. -DAPP_LIST_QUI=ON), prints the QQmlApplicationEngine UI hierarchy.