
Real-time playback: Natron offers a real-time playback with thanks to its RAM/Disk cache technology. Fast & interactive Viewer – Smooth & accurate zooming/panning even for very large image sizes (tested on 27k x 30k images). The command line version is executable from ssh on a computer without any display.
NatronRenderer: A command line tool for execution of project files and python scripts. Network rendering: Natron can be used as a command-line tool and can be integrated on a render farm manager such as Afanasy. Multi-task: Natron can render multiple graphs at the same time and make use of 100% of the compute power of your CPU. (i.e: the render pipeline can be computed at lower res to speed-up rendering). Performances: Never wait for anything to be rendered, in Natron anything you do produces real-time feedback thanks to its optimized multi-threaded rendering pipeline and its support for proxy rendering. It is possible to separate on any number of screens the graphical user interface.
Intuitive user interface: Natron aims not to break habits by providing an intuitive and familiar user interface.
OpenFX samples (in the Support and Examples directories). OpenFX-Yadif deinterlacer : An open-source efficient de-interlacer. OpenFX-OpenCV : A set of plugins based on OpenCV. OpenFX-Arena : A set of extra nodes (bundled with the pre-compiled versions of Natron). OpenFX-Misc : A set of basic nodes, such as Transform, chroma keyer, etc… (bundled with the pre-compiled versions of Natron). OpenFX-IO : to read anything else than standard 8-bits images (bundled with pre-compiled versions of Natron). Support for many free and open-source OpenFX plugins:.
Dozens of file formats supported: EXR, DPX, TIFF, PSD, SVG, RAW, JPG, PNG … and more.Colorspace management handled by OpenColorIO.32 bits floating point linear color processing pipeline.