Natronʼs Features

Whether you’re an experienced compositor or a beginner artist, Natron provides an arsenal of tools at your disposal.

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OCIO Support

OpenColorIO (OCIO), the open-source color management solution from Sony Picture Imageworks, is integrated into Natron's native color management system. With OCIO, Natron's profile produces consistent colors across all compatible applications, simplifying the color management process.

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Headless Rendering

Natron projects can be rendered directly from the command line allowing you to harness the full power of your render farm, even with GPU acceleration.

Render-farm integrations are readily available for Afanasy, Deadline, and Prism.

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Free and Open Source

Natron licensed under the GNU GPL license, and developed in the open entirely by the community. It is free software, and yours to keep forever!

Source code is available on GitHub.

Human-Readable Files

All Natron files are saved as plaintext XML. While Natron's autosave feature is fairly robust, in dire situations broken comps can be recovered with your choice of text editor!