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title: EffectCraft
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description: EffectCraft is a free, open-source app for motion graphics and visual effects, an alternative to Adobe After Effects.
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verified: 0.9.2
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EffectCraft is a free, open-source app for animated titles, motion graphics and compositing. It is an alternative to Adobe After Effects.
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You build a composition from layers (solids, shapes, text, footage, other compositions), animate their properties with keyframes, add effects and render the result. The panels and shortcuts follow After Effects: Project, Composition, Timeline, Effect Controls, Effects & Presets and the Render Queue. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, and in the browser.
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EffectCraft is young and in alpha. It cannot open After Effects projects (`.aep`), and some things still behave differently from After Effects. See [Can EffectCraft open After Effects projects?](faq/after-effects-projects.md).
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## Start here
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- [Install EffectCraft](getting-started/install.md)
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- [Make your first composition](guides/make-a-composition.md)
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- [Animate with keyframes](guides/animate-with-keyframes.md)
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- [Add an effect](guides/add-an-effect.md)
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- [Render a video](guides/render-a-video.md)
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- [Import footage and image sequences](guides/import-footage.md)
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## When something is wrong
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- [EffectCraft does not use my graphics card](troubleshooting/gpu-not-used.md)
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- [Footage is missing or offline](troubleshooting/footage-missing.md)
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## Sections
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- [Getting started](getting-started/index.md)
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- [Guides](guides/index.md)
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- [Troubleshooting](troubleshooting/index.md)
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- [FAQ](faq/index.md)
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## Get help
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Ask in [Discord](https://discord.gg/artcraft) or open an issue in the [issue tracker](https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft/issues). Say which version and which system you use.
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