OFX / OpenFX / Open Effects

OpenFX is an open source standard for making digital compositing effects.

The Wikipedia OpenFX page contains lots of information about OpenFX, OpenFX hosts, and OpenFX plug-ins.

This page should be considered as an addendum with non-Wikipediable information, as well as precompiled binaries for a few sets of plug-ins.

Open source OpenFX plugins

• The OpenFX SDK (actually, this is my own fork of the official OpenFX SDK, with many bug fixes and improvements). This is also used by Natron and by many of the OpenFX plugins below.
• Misc. OpenFX plugins is a collection of essential plugins, which provide many basic compositing tools to be used inside Natron or other OpenFX hosts. Commercial OpenFX hosts usually provide their own versions of these plugins.
• TuttleOFX, the largest open-source high-quality OFX plugins collection (TuttleOFX GitHub) - a bit tricky to install, but well worth it! They also provide precompiled binaries, and you can also grab a package for OS X below.
• yadif deinterlace OFX plugin (obsolete), originally by George Yohng. This plugin was integrated in the "openfx-misc" plugins set, as the "Deinterlace" plugin. See below for an OSX binary.
• OpenCV OFX plugins
• opencv2fx by Bernd Porr (included in openfx-opencv)
• Sony Vegas sample OFX plugins, ported to OSX and Linux, require video_plugin_kit_OFX.zip from the Sony Development Kits Download Page.
• openfx-io, a set of Readers/Writers plugins (to load or save various image and video formats). These plugins were primarily designed for Natron, but should work with any OFX host.
• Paul Dore's OpenFX plugins (sources), which use Resolve's Cuda and OpenCL extensions (sources)

Mac OS X binaries

openfx-misc for DaVinci Resolve, Nuke, etc.

Binary packages are available for any openfx hosts. They are available with plugins compiled separately, so that you can easily remove unwanted plugins from /Library/OFX/Plugins, or as a "multibundle"

• openfx-misc-20150626-nomulti-OSX10.10-x86_64.pkg, built on 26/06/2015 from the master branch as separate plugins, for OSX 10.10 and later, 64 bits.
• openfx-misc-20150626-OSX10.10-x86_64.pkg, built on 26/06/2015 from the master branch as multibundle, for OSX 10.10 and later, 64 bits.

Please send me feedback on these. I am particularly interested by a list of useful plugins for each host (a plugin should be considered useless if an equivalent or better function is included in the host software).

yadif deinterlacer

Download yadif.zip, compiled from the openfx-yadif source for OSX 10.6 universal (also runs on 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10). Create the directory /Library/OFX/Plugins if it does not exist (requires administrator rights), and unzip the file there. This plugin is known to work on Natron, Nuke and DaVinci Resolve (please tell me if it also works on other OpenFX hosts).

openfx-io and openfx-misc

openfx-io is a set of Readers/Writers plugins (to load or save various image and video formats). These plugins were primarily designed for Natron, but should work with any OFX host.

openfx-misc is a collection of essential plugins, which provide many basic compositing tools to be used inside Natron or other OpenFX hosts. Commercial OpenFX hosts usually provide their own versions of these plugins.

If you want to use these plugins in Natron, instead of the bundled plugins, uncheck the option "Prefer bundled plug-ins over system-wide plug-ins" in the Natron Preferences panel ("General" section).

The binaries for openfx-io and openfx-misc can be found in the Natron binary distribution (release or snapshot):

• Right-click on the Natron application icon, and select "Show package contents"
• Copy IO.ofx.bundle (for the openfx-io set of plugins), CImg.ofx.bundle and Misc.ofx.bundle (for the openfx-misc set of plugins) from Contents/Plugins to /Library/OFX/Plugins on the system disk.

Older binary builds for OSX may also be found here. These packages install respectively /Library/OFX/Plugins/IO.ofx.bundle and /Library/OFX/Plugins/Misc.ofx.bundle, and can be uninstalled by removing these directories.

• openfx-io-20140924-OSX10.6-i386-x86_6.pkg, built on 24/09/2014 from the master branch, for OSX 10.6 and later, universal (32/64 bits).
• openfx-misc-20140924-OSX10.6-i386-x86_6.pkg, built on 24/09/2014 from the master branch, for OSX 10.6 and later, universal (32/64 bits).

TuttleOFX

These are unofficial TuttleOFX binaries for OSX, built from the develop branch of TuttleOFX.

The TuttleOFX packages install two directories: /Library/OFX/Plugins/TuttleOFX and /opt/TuttleOFX.

Latest version:

• Unofficial TuttleOFX OSX Universal (32/64bits) - runs on 10.6-10.10. Works with most OFX hosts (including Nuke), but only with the precompiled version of Natron. If you compile your own version of Natron, you will have to compile TuttleOFX also, because of problems with shared libraries.

Older versions (unsupported):

• Unofficial TuttleOFX OSX 10.9 (x86_64, 64 bits) package
• Unofficial TuttleOFX OSX 10.6 (x86_64, 64 bits) package
• Unofficial TuttleOFX OSX 10.6 (i386, 32 bits) package

If you want to compile TuttleOFX on OS X yourself:

• You can find rough instructions in TuttleOFX-OSX-README.txt.
• You will also need TuttleOFX-OSX-macports.tar.gz (additional MacPorts files)
• You need to apply this patch to the current TuttleOFX sources: TuttleOFX-no-log.diff to disable use of boost::log (which is C++11-only).
• The packaging script can be found in TuttleOFX-OSX-package.sh (script for building the pkg file)