DM Adieu Effects — Motion graphics & compositing

Coming to the Mac App Store.

DM Adieu Effects is a compositor for motion graphics and visual effects on the Mac. Build animated titles, lower thirds, logo reveals and composites from layers and keyframes, add effects, and render finished movies or image sequences. It runs entirely on your Mac. No account, no subscription, no cloud.

Built on open source

DM Adieu Effects is based on EffectCraft, the open-source compositor by the ArtCraft team, written in Rust with a GPU renderer. We package it, run it inside the macOS App Sandbox, and support it. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the ArtCraft team. The source it is built from is public, under the MIT and Apache licences.

What you get

• Compositions with layers, precomps, parenting, masks, track mattes and blend modes.
• Keyframes on any property, a Graph Editor for easing and velocity, and JavaScript expressions that link one property to another.
• Around 300 built-in effects: blurs, glows, colour correction, keying, distortion, generators, particles, transitions and time effects, plus layer styles and animation presets.
• Animated type with per-character animators, and shape layers with trim paths and repeaters.
• 3D layers with cameras, lights, shadows and depth of field.
• A Render Queue: H.264 MP4 through the Mac’s own video encoder, QuickTime ProRes with alpha, WebM (VP9 or AV1), animated GIF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF and OpenEXR sequences, WAV and AIFF, and Lottie for the web.
• Imports video, audio, stills and image sequences, layered PSD files, SVG, PDF and 3D models.

Honest about where it stands

The compositor underneath is young: an early release that improves every week, with render speed and fidelity still being tuned. Some tools are missing or rough. HEVC export is not part of this edition, and the optional trained models for Rotoscope Brush and face tracking are installed from a file instead of being downloaded inside the app. Updates will be frequent.

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