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One of the worlds most popular software for creating digital video effects. Adobe After Effects has become the industry standard in film, TV and high-end video production. The software is designed and developed with a timeline and layer-based approach to compositioning that many VFX artists have come to love and respect. Adobe is now providing all of its software under subscription-based model as apart of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe After Effects is currently priced at US$20.99/mo.

With Apple Motion you can create and edit motion graphics, titling for video production and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects. The video editing software is developed by Apple Inc, specifically for their macOS operating system. Apple Motion now features robust 360 VR motion graphics workflow with real-time visualization for a VR headset. Allowing you to design 360° titles, generators, and filters that perfectly map to your VR scene.

Blender is a free and open-source 3D model software released under the GNU General Public License. The software can be used for 3D modeling, 3D animation, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, rendering, particle generation, water simulation and much more.

OBS Studio or Open Broadcaster Software is a free and open-source cross-platform streaming and recording program. The software is equipped with a powerful API that enbales extensions via Lua or Python written plugins and script to further customize the users experience and capabilities of OBS Studio. The open development of OBS Studio is funded with Open Collective, which enables the software to stay free and open.

OpenShot is a free and open-sorce video editing software avalible for FreeBSD, Linux, Haiku, macOS, and Windows. OpenShot was first released in 2008 by Jonathan Thomas, with the objective of providing a stable, free, and friendly to use video editor that works cross-platform. Today, OpenShot has been download by millions and is a project that continues to grow.

A free and open-source video editing software built with KDE and Qt. Kdenlive was first created and released back in 2002 by Jason Wood. Since then the software has seen massive traction in the open-source community. Kdenlive allows you to use and arrange several audio and video tracks, each one can be locked or muted to your convenience. Since Kdenlive is based on the powerful FFmpeg libraries the software can handle most audio and video formats needed to convert and re-encode clips. To top it up Kdenlive also provides plenty of effects, ranging from color correction to audio adjustments, as well as all the standard transform options.