storytold/filmcraft

Downloads

New to FilmCraft? Download it from the FilmCraft page on getartcraft.com. That's the easiest way to install it.

Want a specific build or format? On GitHub, the latest release has every build listed below, and all releases has earlier versions and their notes. in the file names is the version number, and SHA256SUMS.txt lists a checksum for every file.

Architecture

Nothing below the front ends depends on a UI toolkit or OS API. cargo xtask ci checks formatting, lints, tests, the layering rules, asset attribution and the wasm build.

• Codecs and containers — h264, h264enc, hevc, vp9, prores, aac, opus, isobmff, matroska, avi, bitstream
• Foundations — time, geom, color, frame, media, text, project, audio-dsp
• Editing and interchange — edit, codecs, captions, format (project files), interchange
• Rendering and output — render, gpu, export
• Engine — engine: command registry, session, undo, jobs
• Front ends — ui-egui, automation (MCP), apps/filmcraft, apps/filmcraft-cli
• Test support — testkit (ffmpeg oracles, fixtures), golden (golden-image tests)

Edit

The Assembly workspace, cutting a trailer for Night of the Living Dead (1968) with an insert from Carnival of Souls (1962).

A timeline you already know. Source and Program monitors, bins with thumbnails, a multi-track timeline with patch and target buttons, sync locks and linked selection. The Editing, Assembly, Color, Effects and Audio workspaces are all there, and every panel docks wherever you want it.

Up close: dissolves, an insert on V2, the score on A2, coloured markers, and the loudness meters on the right.

• Three-point editing. Mark In and Out in the Source monitor, then insert (,) or overwrite (.) onto the patched tracks. Lift (;) and extract (') take ranges back out.
• Every trim. Ripple, roll, slip, slide, rate stretch and razor tools. Trim mode selects edit points as ripple, roll or trim, nudges them a frame at a time (⌥← ⌥→, ×5 with ⇧), toggles the trim type with
• Exact time. Every edit is computed on integer ticks: 254,016,000,000 per second, which divides evenly by every common frame rate and sample rate. 23.976, 29.97 drop-frame and 59.94 are exact, not appr
• The details pros rely on. Markers with colours, names and durations; export sequence review notes with Markers ▸ Export Markers as CSV…; add edit (⌘K) on one or all tracks; nesting; copy, paste and pa
• Your keys. A Keyboard Shortcuts editor (⌥⌘K) with a drawn keyboard, panel-specific shortcuts, conflict warnings and presets for FilmCraft and standard NLE key layouts.
• Never lose work. Saves are atomic, auto-save keeps a rolling set of versions, and a crash-recovery journal written about a second after each edit brings back unsaved changes after a crash or power cut

Color

The Color workspace on Charade (1963), with live scopes beside the Program monitor.

A complete color grading panel, in the order a colourist works:

The color grading panel. Basic Correction, Color Wheels and every other section, each with its own on/off switch. Scopes that tell the truth. The waveform and vectorscope are computed from the graded frame. All grading happens in linear light, in 32-bit float.

• Basic Correction: temperature and tint, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, saturation.
• Creative: eight built-in looks with an intensity control, plus faded film, sharpen and vibrance. The looks are colour transforms written in code, not LUT files.
• Curves: an RGB curve editor with monotone-cubic interpolation (no overshoot), and hue vs saturation, hue vs hue, hue vs luma, luma vs saturation and saturation vs saturation.
• Color Wheels: shadow, midtone and highlight wheels, each with its own lightness control.
• HSL Secondary: key a colour by hue, saturation and luma, view the key as a matte, and correct only what you selected.
• Vignette: amount, midpoint, roundness and feather.

Effects and motion

NASA's Earth Views from the ISS with a look applied, and the Effects browser open on the dissolves.

An eased push-in on the title card: the value graph, the velocity graph and the Bezier influence handle.

• A comprehensive Video Effects bin (over 90 effects across 16 categories), legacy effects, plus around 30 transitions. Blurs (Bokeh, Focus, Compound), keys (Ultra Key, Track Matte), distortions (Corner
• Motion and opacity on every clip: position, scale, rotation, anchor point and anti-flicker, plus 26 blend modes.
• Advanced keyframing: linear, Bezier, auto and continuous Bezier, hold, ease in and ease out. Effect Controls shows a keyframe lane for every parameter under a time ruler with the playhead's handle, an
• A GPU compositor built on wgpu (Metal, Vulkan, DirectX 12, WebGPU). It samples YUV straight from the decoder with footprint supersampling and blends in linear light. A CPU path renders the same frames